The world has lashed itself to a single signal — one that can be faked, jammed, or undone by the sun. In the Strait of Hormuz this spring, the bill came due. And the oldest craft at sea has quietly begun to come back — not in our hands, but as a machine.
Two empires are carving up the one part of the ocean that was meant to belong to everyone — and to everyone not yet born. The seafloor cannot be watched, which is exactly why it is being taken.
A closing argument. The worst of industrial fishing is not a free market but a publicly funded extraction of a shared resource — and reining it in is now the only way to keep fish within reach of the billions who depend on it.
El Niño has not just formed — it is firming toward the top of the record. The latest forecasts now put every major model at strong or above, with most reaching "super" territory. What that means for the year ahead.