Edition No. 007
Saturday, 4 July 2026 · 8 stories from 4 regions
A week that reads almost entirely by water: undersea cables quietly cut on the seabed, a company seeking the first licence to mine the international seabed outside the rules meant to share it, a North Atlantic current that may not come back, and the High Seas Treaty finally meeting the water it was written for. Ocean protection past ten per cent, hidden oceans beneath the ice of Europa and Enceladus, Vanuatu's Nakamal Agreement and the door left open, and Justin's Lens on a Bahamian reef going under a weed you can lift off the coral by hand.
Edition No. 006
Saturday, 27 June 2026 · 7 stories from 5 regions
Twenty thousand seafarers stranded as the Strait of Hormuz reopens and breaks again, a hotter year loading as the Pacific tips toward El Niño, Cuba’s lights as a lever of power, Haiti where help came too late, the Northwest Passage the ice opened past Greenland, the island where an old world ended and a new one began in the Bahamas, and Justin’s Lens on the story that ended exactly where the plot said it would — St Helena.
Edition No. 005
Saturday, 20 June 2026 · 15 stories from 11 regions
Edition No. 005. Saturday, 20 June 2026. Fifteen stories across the week's sections — from the finale of The Emptied Sea to the High Seas Treaty entering into force.
Edition No. 004
Saturday, 13 June 2026 · 11 stories from 10 regions
Half a million square miles of protected Pacific reopened to commercial fishing, a Beirut strike that broke a week-old ceasefire, two days of open US–Iran fire and a Strait still closed, Ebola outrunning the tracing in eastern Congo, the minerals beneath the AI race in Tanzania, an El Niño now formed, machine learning finding an alphabet in whale song, Anthropic's plea to slow the machines, a swim club opening the ocean to Hout Bay's children, Emerald on Cocos off Costa Rica, and Justin's Part II of The Emptied Sea.
Edition No. 003
Saturday, 6 June 2026 · 12 stories from 10 regions
A cancer breakthrough priced beyond the reach of those it could save, the Iran ceasefire that holds and doesn’t, Ebola spreading across the DRC and Uganda, the Horn of Africa under strain, Colombia’s election and a hemisphere’s drug war, the middle of the map and a changing of the guard, Tuvalu where the fuel stops, the Hektoria glacier’s fifteen-mile retreat in fifteen months, a reef the size of Vatican City found off Argentina, Emerald on the coco de mer in the Seychelles, and Justin opening The Emptied Sea.
Edition No. 002
Saturday, 30 May 2026 · 21 stories from 9 regions
The Arctic and Antarctic both crossing tipping points, the Iran ceasefire’s collapse, Russia’s hypersonic strike on Kyiv, Sudan’s war into a fourth year, 141 nations behind the World Court’s climate opinion, Papua New Guinea building a Pacific ocean bloc, Raja Ampat’s Misool recovery, the Amazon’s lowest deforestation year on record, Tuvalu engineering land for 2100, the Faroes and Rapa Nui, and Emerald in Malé alongside Justin’s thirty-eight years at sea.
Edition No. 001
Saturday, 23 May 2026 · 22 stories from 11 regions
The founding edition. Iran, Ukraine, Sudan, the Coral Triangle, the Tonga Trench, Raja Ampat under threat from nickel mining, mountain gorillas climbing past a thousand, the Atoll at the Edge of Everything, and the first installment of The Lens.
Edition No. 008 publishes Saturday, 11 July 2026.