In Sri Lanka’s Deep Waters Marine Conservation Goes Hi-Tech – Analysis
By Stella Paul As the midday sun rises higher over Gulf of Mannar, a drone hovers over the blue mass of sea water. Below, a motley crowd of fishermen gathers, straining their eyes at a drone. A few...
View ArticleSolving The Mystery Of The Arctic’s Green Ice
In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible — a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that should have been far too dark for anything requiring...
View ArticleMelting Sea Ice Could Lead To More Life In Sea
When spring arrives in the Arctic, both snow and sea ice melt, forming melt ponds on the surface of the sea ice. Every year, as global warming increases, there are more and larger melt ponds. Melt...
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China’s Blue Navy Ambitions: Fast Bridging Gap With US Navy – Analysis
By Vinayak Bhat Any country with blue water navy dreams need carrier vessels (CVs) to pursue those dreams. And every CV that is in blue waters away from home requires replenishment of cargo and fuel....
View Article1997 ‘Tipping Point’ For Ice Caps Around Greenland’s Edges
Measuring almost 100,000 km2 (about twice the size of the Netherlands), the ice caps around Greenland’s edges represent the largest glacierised area on earth, outside of the large ice sheets of...
View ArticleClose Connection Between Deep Currents And Climate
Mild winters in northern Europe, rainfall in western Africa, hurricanes in North America -the energy transported around the world by the global ocean circulation affects the climate as well as regional...
View ArticleUN And EU Urge Vigilance As Somali Pirates Return – Analysis
By Jaya Ramachandran With the Somali pirates back after a lull of five years, the United Nations and the European Union anti-piracy taskforce (EU Naval Force) are urging greater vigilance and asking...
View ArticleChina’s Belt And Road Initiative And Philippine Participation In Maritime...
By Darlene V. Estrada* Philippines-China relations have gone through dramatic changes in recent months. Following the Duterte Administration’s pronouncements signaling a change in the approach towards...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill Settlement Funding New Way To Manage Fish Populations
More than 30,000 fish species exist. But it’s always been a guessing game on where they originate. A new technique developed by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science...
View ArticleCoral Reefs Struggle To Keep Up With Rising Seas
In the first ecosystem-wide study of changing sea depths at five large coral reef tracts in Florida, the Caribbean and Hawai’i, researchers found the sea floor is eroding in all five places, and the...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill Did $17.2 Billion In Damage To Natural Resources
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the...
View ArticlePotential For Saudi Arabian Coral Reefs To Shine
Marine surveys estimating fish population density and diversity are crucial to our understanding of how human activities impact coral reef ecosystems and to our ability to make informed management...
View ArticleDecades Of Data On World’s Oceans Reveal Troubling Oxygen Decline
A new analysis of decades of data on oceans across the globe has revealed that the amount of dissolved oxygen contained in the water – an important measure of ocean health – has been declining for more...
View ArticleParis 1.5°C Target Could Be Crosses By 2026
Global temperatures could break through the 1.5°C barrier negotiated at the Paris conference as early as 2026 if a slow-moving, natural climate driver known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation...
View ArticleUnauthorised Manoeuvres In Waters: US Chides Malaysia Restrictions – Analysis
The US has challenged Malaysia’s restriction on military manoeuvres with weapons in its EEZ. Its requirement of prior notification for passage of nuclear-powered vessels in its territorial sea is...
View ArticleInternational Maritime Review 2017: Need For More Inclusive Asia-Pac Maritime...
The International Maritime Review 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). But it also attests to the maturing maritime diplomacy in Southeast Asia that contributes to a...
View ArticleDeep Sea Fishing Seems Working To Ease Issues With Sri Lanka – Analysis
By encouraging deep sea fishing in the Rameswaram area, authorities in India hope to reduce the pressure on the Indian and Sri Lankan seas. By N. Sathiya Moorthy Barring stray and uninformed political...
View ArticleSteering Cooperation Across Oceans – Analysis
By Asanga Abeyagoonasekera* “We should not develop a habit of retreating to the harbour whenever we encounter a storm, for this will never get us to the other side of the ocean.” — Xi Jinping,...
View ArticleChina’s Builds Up One Belt One Road Initiative, As US Sleeps At Wheel – Analysis
Last week, China unveiled President Xi’s One Belt One Road Initiative at a summit in Beijing. China’s prowess on the economic and trade landscape is increasing at an accelerated rate, but not something...
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Sea Level As A Metronome Of Earth’s History
Sedimentary layers record the history of the Earth. They contain stratigraphic cycles and patterns that precisely reveal the succession of climatic and tectonic conditions that have occurred over...
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