Ocean Minerals Are Becoming a Real US Opportunity
culture of safety and environmental performance. That technical overlap gives the United States a clear advantage in a sector where operational experience will matter as much as policy ambition.Federal Policy to Help US Move into ActionFederal policy is beginning to match that potential. The Trump administration recently announced Project Vault, a public-private partnership backed by $10 billion in Export-Import Bank financing to build a U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve covering all 60 minerals on the U.S. Geological Survey's Critical Minerals List.Unlike traditional government stockpiles
The Politics of a Subsea Data Cable Link to Antarctica
intelligence partner networks and the indirect association with military-linked infrastructure in other polar regions, even seemingly neutral cable infrastructure may be perceived as strategically exclusionary,” said the researchers.The attempted assertion of influence over Greenland by the Trump administration and the suspected acts of sabotage against the Svalbard cable underline the strategic significance of polar infrastructure.If approached inclusively, a subsea data cable to Antarctica could serve as a model for cooperative digital development. “Proposals for more, distributed landings
US Panel Could Scrap Endangered Species Protections for Gulf of America
The Trump administration is weighing a broad exemption from protections for endangered species for oil and gas drillers operating in the Gulf of America.The move is aligned with President Donald Trump's goals to unwind what he says are burdensome regulations for businesses and to increase domestic production of fossil fuels.Interior Secretary Doug Burgum called a meeting of the Endangered Species Committee for March 31 to consider an exemption from the Nixon-era law for Gulf oil and gas activities, according to a notice published on Monday in the Federal Register.The committee, nicknamed the
US pushes Fisheries Tech at APEC Amid China Rivalry
The Trump administration is promoting artificial intelligence exports and maritime surveillance technology at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in southern China this week, as Washington seeks to counter Beijing’s technological and maritime influence.Casey Mace, the U.S. senior official to APEC, said the Trump administration had launched a $20 million fund to support adoption of American AI technologies by partner economies in the region, part of a broader effort to strengthen U.S. leadership in emerging technologies.The initiatives come ahead of President Donald Trump’s
Uncertainty Reduces New Oil and Gas Investment
growth is no longer realistic," Fugro said, adding it saw the most significant impact in the oil and gas market, along with further softening of sentiment in offshore wind.Meanwhile, a U.S. judge ruled that Orsted can restart work on the nearly finished Revolution Wind project after President Donald Trump's administration halted the project last month. The halt had been costing developers more than $2 million per day.The effects of market uncertainty have been examined in a newly published study by researchers from the University of Oxford. They demonstrate a significant negative relationship
Tariffs Hit India Shrimp Farmers Hard
of a local union in Ongole city, adding the farmers plan to seek financial support from the state government.Ecuador, meanwhile, is closely tracking tariffs on India to seize on business opportunities, but producers there will go slow on new investments amid uncertainty over whether India and the Trump administration could strike a tariff deal, said Jose Antonio Camposano, president of National Chamber of Aquaculture of Ecuador."India's exports are highly concentrated in the United States ... just as China is for us. So that is where we could gain ground if India withdraws," he said.(Reuters
Europe Moves On as US Lets Science Slide
climate change and weather extremes, according to Reuters interviews.The effort - which has not been previously reported - marks the most concrete response from the European Union and other European governments so far to the U.S. government's retreat from scientific research under President Donald Trump's administration.Since his return to the White House, Trump has initiated sweeping budget cuts to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and other agencies, dismantling programs conducting
Kongsberg Ramps Up Maritime Defense Production to Meet Growing Demand
; Aerospace business made up 54% of those, as CEO Geir Håøy said the company was experiencing record-high market activity in the sector.Many European nations have pledged to significantly increase defence budgets in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has threatened to scale back military support for the region.Kongsberg has opportunities to increase production in Norway and is building up capacity in Australia, Håøy said in a call with analysts and media. Later this year, it will also start building production
NOAA 'Fully Staffed' with Forecasters, Scientists
," Lutnick told a Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing NOAA, saying he got the National Weather Service (NWS) exempted from a federal hiring freeze.NOAA, which includes the NWS, lost around 1,000 people or 10% of its workforce amid federal job layoffs in the first months of the second Trump administration, including 600 at the weather service. At least six NWS offices had stopped the routine twice-a-day weather balloon launches that collect data for weather models.The U.S. hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November. NOAA forecast last week that this year's season
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