New Internationalist – September 2019
THE BIG STORY of environmental protection would be a disaster. They urgently need reforms in the way they operate, as part of th ...
CLIMATE REGULATOR Without the ocean, climate change would be happening much faster. The seas help regulate the weather. The atmo ...
THE BIG STORY I ’m on a ship 1,600 kilometres away from the nearest landmass. It has taken us five days to get from California t ...
Is it realistic to hope the deep sea remains near pristine? Would deep-sea mining provide the minerals to power a low-carbon, le ...
THE SEA LIVING SEA Up to 10 million species live in coastal waters.^1 17,000 species thrive in the dark deep sea.^1 38,000 diffe ...
BLUE ECONOMY $24 trillion – the ocean’s total asset base. $2.5 trillion – the ocean’s annual global GMP (gross marine product). ...
THE BIG STORY 26 NEW INTERNATIONALIST ...
Oceans I HOW TO FIGHT ILLEGAL FISHING O n the shore of the Liberian fishing town Robertsport, Wilson Weah pre- pares his narrow ...
THE BIG STORY Due to the subsidies, industrial vessels can travel farther and fish for much longer without risking overspending. ...
Oceans I MARINE GENE RUSH The race is on to patent all marine life – and some have got a head start. Marine scientist Robert Bla ...
THE BIG STORY makes me squirm is that 98 per cent of patent sequences are owned by entities in just 10 rich countries.^3 That me ...
Some days I’ve been on dry land for too long my ache for ocean so great my eyes weep waves my mouth mudflats popping with gropin ...
T he South China Sea disputes are complex and confusing. Here are the key questions answered. 1 Who claims what and how valid ar ...
Oceans The Paracels are a separate island group to the northwest of the Spratlys claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam. But they ...
Words – Vanessa Baird T he high seas can be a bit like the old Wild West – a vast lawless zone, where poor seafarers may toil in ...
‘They are treating us like slaves and our basic rights have been denied,’ said Bharath Haridass, one of the 40 crew members stra ...
WHAT CAN I DO? Personal efforts are definitely worthwhile, but the scale of the problem requires action at a national and intern ...
CAPITAL AT RISK. INVESTMENTS ARE LONG TERM AND MAY NOT BE READILY REALISABLE. ABUNDANCE IS AUTHORISED AND REGULATED BY THE FINAN ...
COUNTRY PROFILE E veryone in Tanzania knows that the country is at war but what they would probably fail to tell you is with wha ...
STAR RATINGS INCOME DISTRIBUTION | +,,,, Tanzania remains one of the countries with the highest income inequality in the world. ...
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