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The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around ...

A warplane encrusted with coral lies upside down on the seafloor of Saipan’s harbor, its landing struts thrust awkwardly upward as colorful fish weave in and out of the exposed fuselage, engine and ...

Between Oct. 1 and 21, a U.S government-funded vessel, the E/V Nautilus, conducted an expedition in the Cook Islands’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), following an agreement between the U.S. and the ...