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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 112–118.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of Porphyra , a red algae, is honored as the “Mother of the Sea” at a shrine in Japan’s Ariake Bay. (Her finding, published in Nature in 1949, led to the mass production of nori, the papery sheets used in sushi.) In South Korea, seaweed soup is traditionally given to new mothers after childbirth, a custom...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 73–78.
Published: 01 June 2003
...H. D. S. Greenway Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 H . D . S. G reenw ay is a colum nist a n d fo rm er ed ito ria l p a g e ed itor o f the Boston Globe. The Unwatched Ships at Sea The Coast Guard and Homeland Security H. D. S. Greenway...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 13–22.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Sea Change or Opportunism? Thomas M. Nichols “We sail in the same boat,” an aide to Rus­ ally pro-Western line. Putin, even more sian president Vladimir Putin said in late than Yeltsin, has placed Russia squarely 2002 of relations between N A TO and Russia, among...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 18–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
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Published: 01 September 2017
Ohoud, scuba diving in Jeddah’s Red Sea port, tells me, “We women often joke that we can’t drive, but we can dive.” Ohoud, scuba diving in Jeddah’s Red Sea port, tells me, “We women often joke that we can’t drive, but we can dive.” More
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 18–27.
Published: 01 June 2015
... incident, in mid-June, Robert and I were standing on the northern edge of Barter Island. In front of us was Barnard Harbor that extends to a barrier island, which meets the Beaufort Sea. On the south was the coastal plain of the Arctic NWR. A short distance away a mid-sized polar bear was approaching...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Hindenburgs. About half of this oxygen comes from the ocean. Yet the recently concluded, decade-long Census of Marine Life reports that phytoplankton have been decreasing by approximately 1 percent every year since 1900. These microscopic plants produce most of the oxygen that comes from the sea. The exact...
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Published: 01 June 2011
“Rising seas, drowning islands.” “Rising seas, drowning islands.” More
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 34–35.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Shanghai is only about 13 feet above sea level. While the Chinese government has scrambled to build dikes and seawalls, if more is not done and global temperatures warm by 4 degrees Celsius, almost the entire city will be underwater. MAP ROOM SHANGHAI: AFTER THE FLOOD Shanghai, China’s most...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 49–55.
Published: 01 June 2011
...“Rising seas, drowning islands.” “Rising seas, drowning islands.” ...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 14–17.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of Arctic sea ice has shrunk dramatically, and last year’s extent was the lowest ever recorded. In the last 30 years, the annual minimum size of the polar ice cap has shrunk by more than half, receding by 1.5 million square miles, an area approaching the size of India, France, and Italy combined...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2015
... will impact human communities that depend on the ecosystem services of these landscapes. The Indian coastal regions will be vulnerable to inundations, due to sea level rise and the extreme weather events we have witnessed over the last couple of years that caused massive life and property losses. Coastal...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2013
... impermeable divides. We have asked our panel of global experts how borders should be drawn on land, on sea, and in the blogosphere. When South Sudan split from Sudan in 2011, the governments of both countries were praised by the African Union for promising to create a soft border—one that would allow...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 79–87.
Published: 01 June 2012
... concerns rights to the South China Sea claimed by China, Vietnam, and four other Southeast Asian nations. In addition to providing crucial trade routes and rich fishing grounds, the sea is estimated to contain large underwater oil and gas reserves. Hoping to preserve its own strategic interest in the South...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
... days in a refugee camp, watching ferryboats come and go from the main port of this Greek island, just 5 miles off the Turkish coast. In July, the 24-year-old Kurd and his family had arrived in a crowded rubber dinghy after a perilous trip across the Aegean Sea. Syria’s civil war had forced them from...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 23–36.
Published: 01 June 2005
... platforms that will enable it to Beijing expanded its association with project power in the Western Pacific as well a s e a n in the summer of 1994 through its as in the South China Sea and across the participation in committees on trade and Taiwan Strait. technology...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 30–34.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... Rising sea levels are another looming menace. One of the first recorded comparisons between the Caribbean and paradise came from Christopher Columbus in 1492 as he gazed upon the islands during his first voyage west. As we all know, Columbus sailed the ocean blue on behalf of the monarchs of Spain...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 32–41.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of déjà vu in May 2014, two widely-reported scientific papers predicted the ongoing loss and eventual collapse of glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea, causing the sea level to rise three to 12 feet. So far, climate change diplomacy has been ineffectual at addressing the global emissions...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 8–11.
Published: 01 June 2014
... tender in much of the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea region, and along the East African coast down to Natal, South Africa. After the 17th century, the character of most European currencies had become national, but because the true value of a coin rested inherently on its metallic contents, coins...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 15–22.
Published: 01 September 2001
... defense is in its infant vanced development and flight testing of stages, and it will take a decade or more for all mobile-type ABMs (sea-based, air-based, the technology to mature. The only thing space-based, and mobile land-based); (3) pro­ pushing such deployment plans, which are hibits giving ABM...