Operation Prime Chance fell under the rubric of Operation Earnest Will, which was a U.S. Navy-led operation to reflag Kuwaiti-owned oil tankers and protect them from Iranian attacks in the Persian ...

As the NATO country head for two rounds of elections, it is critical to review Romania's strategic importance.

Witnesses tell Congressional panel that to break Beijing's rare earths dominance, Washington must promote ocean mining of ...

Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a ...

But seafaring nations may be entering a new era Last week, the Trump administration responded definitively with a new ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

Trump may be unlikely to gain dominion over Canada or Greenland, but he’s vying to supersede the UN treaty that governs ...

The Chinese government has implemented export controls on seven strategic rare earth metals, over which China holds a ...

Japan's Sumitomo and impact investment fund Builders Vision have invested in U.S.-based rare earths processing startup ...

Trump has effectively fired the starting gun for an international free-for-all on extracting minerals from the ocean floor.

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. Mere ...

Canada's The Metals Company said Tuesday it applied to the United States to mine deep-sea minerals in international waters, a ...