In April 2025, the United States declared deep seabed mining a national priority. The decision had a clear motive: over the last year, China’s escalating export restrictions on critical minerals ...

The current unilateral approach may secure minerals in the short term, but it will erode the Pacific partnerships and deterrence architecture the United States needs for long-term security. In April ...

Pollution reaches remoteness: Researchers detected human-sourced zinc dominating the upper South Pacific, overturning assumptions of its isolation from industrial fallout. Why zinc matters: Zinc is ...

This is Antelope Reef, home to China’s latest artificial island — and one of its largest — in contested waters of the South China Sea. Satellite images show dozens of dredgers, which grind up the ...

Forecasters predict an above-average 2026 Pacific hurricane season due to warm ocean waters and a developing El Niño. AccuWeather anticipates 17 to 22 named storms in the Eastern Pacific, with an ...

The fate of Nestlé’s Waters division has been the subject of speculation for months now. The multinational first announced its intention to offload the lucrative branch of its business back in ...

This Pew Research Center analysis summarizes key facts about Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) living in the United States. Pew Research Center does demographic studies, opinion polls and ...

Two Chinese naval vessels sailed between Japan’s southwestern islands this week, Japan’s military said, in a passage that follows training in the Western Pacific and comes amid heightened tensions ...

An unmanned surface vehicle made by Saronic Technologies conducts testing of an autonomous over-the-horizon solution conceived by student researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) during a ...

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FOUR HOLES SWAMP — South Carolina just came out of its driest fall and winter on record, and the drought is only getting worse. Now, one of the state’s soggiest landscapes is beginning to dry up, ...

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — A satellite-tagged mature female great white shark named Kara was detected just offshore from Ocean Shores in March and as of last week was just off the coast of Vancouver Island ...