First Deep-Sea Mining Company Asks Trump for International Permit
permission to operate outside U.S. territorial waters.Last week President Donald Trump signed an order aiming to jumpstart mining in both domestic and international waters in an attempt to boost U.S. access to critical minerals and reduce China's market control.The move ratchets up tension between Washington and the United Nations-backed International Seabed Authority, which has been crafting mining standards for more than a decade, while China objected to the order as a violation of international law.Parts of the world's oceans are estimated to contain large amounts of potato-shaped rocks known
Trump Order Fast Tracks Subsea Mining
, Blue Minerals Jamaica, China Minmetals, and Kiribati's Marawa Research and Exploration.U.S. access to critical minerals - especially those produced by Chinese companies - has dwindled in recent months as Beijing has limited exports of several types. That, in turn, has ratcheted up pressure on Washington to support efforts to boost domestic mining.Last week, Trump officials fast-tracked permitting on 10 mining projects across the United States and implemented an abbreviated approval process for mining projects on federal lands.The administration also said it would approve one of the country'
White House Aims to Eliminate NOAA Climate Research
in order to support Administration priorities and unleash American energy," the document said.The proposal would preserve $170 million in (OAR) funding for some programs related to severe storms, weather and ocean exploration, according to the document.(Reuters - Reporting by Valerie Volcovici in Washington and Nichola Groom in Los Angeles; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Bill Berkrot
Writing is Thinking
errors in the text, data, code and references of manuscripts, to guide reviewers toward more-constructive feedback and to polish their prose. Some new websites even offer entire AI-created reviews with one click.”The article quotes Carl Bergstrom, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. He says if reviewers start relying on AI so that they can skip most of the process of writing reviews, they risk providing shallow analysis. “Writing is thinking,” says Bergstrom
White House Could Bypass UN on Deep-Sea Mining
, Jamaica, earlier this month to review hundreds of proposed amendments to a 256-page draft mining code for international waters, although the meeting ended without resolution.The ISA's lack of progress led Vancouver-based The Metals Co - which is backed by metals giant Glencore - to formally ask Washington for deep-sea mining permits last Thursday.The Metals Co said "commercial industry is not welcome at the ISA" and that the U.S. is "a regulator willing to engage with the applicants and give applications a fair hearing."AMERICA FIRST POLICIESThe move would mark the latest step
A Graveyard for Glaciers
field by the sea to create, before they melted away, a Glacier Graveyard. The headstones bore the names of glaciers from around the world that are lost or waning due to global warming.Among them were:• Pico Humboldt, the last of Venezuela's glaciers, now gone• Anderson Glacier, in Washington U.S., disappeared in 2011• Kilimanjaro, the final remaining glacier in Africa• Aujuittuq in Canada: its Inuit name means "A place that never thaws" although it is now thawing.Projections indicate that one-third of glacier sites could disappear by 2050, so on March 21, 2025,
Divers Investigating Aircraft Debris
River that could be additional aircraft debris from the collision between a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) RJ Aviation (Bombardier) CRJ700 and a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.The PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 airplane operated as American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, to Reagan Washington National Airport and the US Army helicopter collided at 8:47 p.m. ET on January 29, 2025, killing 67 people.Additional larger pieces of wreckage identified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration TopoBathy lidar survey were recovered by the crane and are being offloaded and brought
Storm Chaser Cyrena Arnold to Sign Books at R.M. Young AMS 2025 Booth
of appreciation for her efforts towards aviation safety while employed at a NASA contractor, AirDat. She then installed weather stations on the remote Alaska tundra for six years with McVehil-Monnett Associates, then came to New Hampshire as the Director of Summit Operations for the non-profit Mount Washington Observatory and was an NH1 News TV Meteorologist. She has made guest appearances on WIRED, Good Morning America, Insider, USA Today, GQ, Popular Science, The Morning Show, and more. And she was named Mrs. New Hampshire in 2022 and has spent the last several years traveling across the country teaching
Bacteria Fuel Cell Could Power Ocean Sensors
says the bioinspired system has game-changing potential to provide direct electric power to improve sensing capabilities while protecting environment.The first phase of the project will run through Summer 2026 and includes collaborators from eight other institutions and firms: Battelle, the George Washington University, Harvard University, the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, James Madison University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Delaware and Yokogawa Corp. of America.In addition to the $7.8 million granted for Phase 1
February 2025
