NOAA plans to scour more than 30,000 square nautical miles of waters off American Samoa to figure out the possibilities there ...
NOAA’s National Ocean Service announced a new hydrographic survey project to map and characterize more than 30,000 square ...
On the regulatory front, NOAA announced revisions to the regulations for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permit applications under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA), a ...
Deep sea mining in the Marianas and American Samoa was a topic of contention in Washington during an oversight hearing on Friday. Companies supporting the Trump Administration’s push to fast tra ...
APIA, CA, UNITED STATES, June 13, 2025 / EINPresswire.com / -- Samoa became one of the first Pacific Island nations to adopt a legally binding Marine Spatial Plan — a milestone step to fully protect ...
As COP16 biodiversity talks begin in Colombia, research shows only 8.3% of global marine areas are protected Heads of 56 Commonwealth countries are meeting in Samoa, with ocean protection high on ...