Rebecca Dzombak

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Rebecca Dzombak |Hiroko Tabuchi

It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other "billion dollar disasters," which are growing more frequent as the planet warms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country's most expensive disasters, those which cause at least $1 billion in damage.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Max Bearak |Rebecca Dzombak |Harry Stevens

Share President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that is opposed by nearly all other nations, which consider international waters off limits to this kind of industrial activity.The executive order, signed Thursday, would circumvent a decades-old treaty that every major coastal nation except the United States has ratified.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Bearak |Rebecca Dzombak |Harry Stevens

Max Bearak, Rebecca Dzombak and Harry StevensApr 25, 2025 – 9.44am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? New York | President Donald Trump has ordered the US government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that nearly every other nation in the world considers off-limits to this kind of industrial activity.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Max Bearak |Rebecca Dzombak |Harry Stevens

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral resources in shared waters. President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that nearly every other nation in the world considers off limits to this kind of industrial activity.

3 weeks ago | rsn.org | Rebecca Dzombak |Lisa Friedman

The president said the move was aimed at making the United States the world’s “dominant seafood leader.”President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.