The World This Week — Edition 002
Edition No. 002. Saturday, 30 May 2026. Twenty-one stories across nine sections. This is the second edition. It deliberately widens the geographic frame — Edition 001 leaned heavily Pacific, and
Edition 002
Edition 002
Thirty-Eight Years at Sea: What I've Watched the Ocean Lose
We departed Saldanha Bay, South Africa on the morning of 22 September 1987 — the southern spring equinox — aboard a 39-foot Bongers sloop my stepfather Gary had built in our
Malé: More Than an Airport
Malé - more than an airport We arrived to the Maldives by boat, pulling up to Malé in the morning haze in late January, 2023. The atolls are barely visible above
Rapa Nui: The Marine Protection That Was Won and the Enforcement That Wasn't
Rapa Nui — Easter Island — lies in the southeastern Pacific, approximately 3,500 kilometres from the coast of Chile and approximately 2,000 kilometres from the nearest inhabited Polynesian island. It
The Faroe Islands: Eighteen Islands That Decided to Stay
The Faroe Islands lie in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Norway: 18 volcanic islands, roughly 1,400 square kilometres in total, home to approximately 54,000 people speaking a
The Most Effective Tool Against Amazon Deforestation Is Indigenous Land Rights
The Planet section of this edition reports the structural picture: Amazon deforestation in Brazil is on pace for its lowest year on record, driven significantly by the expansion of legally
Tuvalu's New Land Is Designed for the Year 2100 and Beyond
A UNDP-supported land reclamation project in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu, has now constructed approximately 7.3 hectares of new land using a combination of dredged lagoon sediment and
Solomon Islands' New Prime Minister Reinstates the Dolphin Export Ban
Within his first days in office, the new Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Jeremiah Manele, signed an executive order reinstating the country's ban on the export of live
What an Abandoned Atoll Teaches About Ocean Recovery
Bikini Atoll, in the northern Marshall Islands, was the site of 23 nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States between 1946 and 1958. The Bikinian population — approximately 167 people
Amazon Deforestation Is on Pace for Its Lowest Year on Record
Near-real-time satellite alerts indicate that Amazon deforestation in Brazil is on pace, for the period August 2025 through January 2026, for the lowest cumulative clearing in that window