NOAA’s National Ocean Service announced a new hydrographic survey project to map and characterize more than 30,000 square ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Christmas mass in a village church to sliding down volcanic rocks, hitchhiking Samoa revealed the island through local eyes.