What Duterte’s Comments Mean For South China Sea Dispute: India’s Position –...
By Arun Mohan Sukumar In announcing his country’s “separation from the United States”, has the Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte radically altered the nature of the South China Sea dispute? Not...
View ArticleArctic Sea Ice Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming Summers
Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest and...
View ArticleRising CO2 Threatens Coral And People Who Use Reefs
As atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels rise, very few coral reef ecosystems will be spared the impacts of ocean acidification or sea surface temperature rise, according to a new analysis. The...
View ArticleDecreasing Amounts Of Mercury In Tuna
For years, public health experts have warned against eating certain kinds of fish, including tuna, tha t tend to accumulate mercury. Still, tuna consumption provides more mercury to U.S. consumers than...
View ArticleSino-US Relations: Recalibration Or Repetition? – Analysis
The Chinese grab for fossil fuels or its military competition for naval control is not a challenge, but rather a boost for the US Asia-Pacific, even an overall, posture. Calibrating the contraction of...
View ArticleCorals Survived Caribbean Climate Change
Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years ago, probably due to drastic environmental changes. Which ones survived? Scientists working at the Smithsonian...
View ArticleNo ‘String Of Pearls’: It’s The Dragon In The Indian Ocean – Analysis
By Mahendra Ved* Forget the “String of Pearls” story about how China is supposedly surrounding India on the high seas. China is not just on the sea, but also on land, in air and deeply involved in the...
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Implications Of Emerging Chinese Surveillance And Strike Complexes – Analysis
By Austin Hale and Frank G. Hoffman* (FPRI) — China appears determined to assert itself throughout the Asia Pacific region and undercut United States’ alliances with potentially destabilizing effects...
View ArticleGlobal Warming ‘Hiatus’: Oceans Act As ‘Heat Sink’
A new multi-institutional study of the so-called global warming “hiatus” phenomenon — the possible temporary slowdown of the global mean surface temperature (GMST) trend said to have occurred from 1998...
View ArticleWest Antarctic Ice Shelf Breaking Up From Inside Out
A key glacier in Antarctica is breaking apart from the inside out, suggesting that the ocean is weakening ice on the edges of the continent. The Pine Island Glacier, part of the ice shelf that bounds...
View ArticleThe Iranian ‘Maritime Police’ Project – OpEd
By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed* Experienced in fighting proxy wars in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon, the Iranian leadership is aware of the important role the military plays in imposing Tehran’s foreign...
View ArticleUS VP-Elect Pence Telephones Sri Lanka’s President Sirisena
US Vice President-elect Mike Pence telephoned Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena December 1, on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump. According to the Sri Lanka government, during the...
View ArticleClam Shells Used To Help Build 1,000-Year Record Of Ocean Climate
Alan Wanamaker, working as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2009, was charged with beginning to compile a 1,000-year record of the marine climate for a spot in the North Atlantic just off the...
View ArticleMitigating Maritime Violence In Sulu Sea: Regional Cooperation Needed – Analysis
Suggestions that kidnappers/extortionists make money from ransom do not explain the root causes of maritime violence in the Sulu Sea. The main solution lies in development of the impoverished region in...
View ArticleChina Seizes US Navy Underwater Drone In South China Sea
By Terri Moon Cronk Using appropriate government-to-government channels, the Defense Department has called upon China to immediately return an unmanned underwater vehicle that it unlawfully seized...
View ArticleOcean Temperatures Faithfully Recorded In Mother-Of-Pearl
Mother-of-pearl or nacre (pronounced nay-ker), the lustrous, tough-as-nails biomineral that lines some seashells, has been shown to be a faithful record of ancient ocean temperature. Writing online...
View ArticleClownfish Adapt For Population Survival
One fish species is able to adjust the gender ratio of its population, through changes at the molecular level, in response to changing environmental conditions, shows a KAUST research team. “Several...
View ArticleParis Agreement Target Critical For Preserving Fisheries
Limiting temperature increases to 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels, as outlined in the Paris Agreement, will significantly minimize the impact of global warming on the catch potential of marine...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Hiatus Once Again Disproved
A controversial paper published two years ago that concluded there was no detectable slowdown in ocean warming over the previous 15 years – widely known as the “global warming hiatus” – has now been...
View ArticleSouth China Sea Disputes: Nearing A Solution? – Analysis
The likely announcement by Philippine President Duterte of the Scarborough Shoal as an environmental marine sanctuary and off limits to fishermen could prove to be the first incremental step towards...
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