Met with largely bipartisan support, the regional commercial fleet has been understandably up in arms over the decision.

Deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals said on Tuesday that it has asked U.S. federal officials to launch a commercial auction for access to deposits of nickel, cobalt and other critical minerals off ...

The broad order avoids a direct confrontation with the United Nations-backed International Seabed Authority and seeks essentially to jumpstart the mining of US waters.

The brightly colored birds are extinct in the wild, having disappeared from their native Guam in 1988 due to the introduction ...

ERIC LEE / NEW YORK TIMES Kitty Simonds, far right, executive director of the Honolulu ­-based Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, was in the Oval Office on Thursday as President ...

Several states have refused to certify compliance with the Trump administration that schools will no longer utilize DEI ...

Since its founding on August 25, 1916, the U.S. National Park Service has assembled 419 protected units, of which 62 hold the ...

cobalt and other critical minerals off the coast of American Samoa. The waters around the Pacific Ocean territory are estimated to contain large amounts of potato-shaped rocks known as ...

A brightly colored bird that has been extinct in the wild for almost 40 years has been introduced on a new island in the ...