The Walls Never Came Down
How the world banned the "walls of death" — and let a bigger problem take their place, out of sight, on the high seas
How the world banned the "walls of death" — and let a bigger problem take their place, out of sight, on the high seas
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
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
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
Edition 001 reported on the nickel-mining threat to Raja Ampat, the marine protected area in eastern Indonesia that has been called the global epicentre of coral biodiversity. The piece
The World Meteorological Organization's State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2026 report, released earlier this year, contains the data that anchors much of the Pacific
On 8 June 2026 — World Ocean Day — the government of Tuvalu will launch its first National Ocean Policy. The launch falls into Edition 003 of this publication, but the document
For most of the satellite record, Antarctic sea ice behaved differently from its northern counterpart. While Arctic sea ice declined steadily from the late 1970s onward — eventually losing roughly half
The waters off Chile, Peru, and Ecuador are among the most productive fishing grounds in the world. They are also among the most heavily exploited by distant-water industrial fleets
Papua New Guinea is positioning the 2026 Melanesian Ocean Summit as a regional governance platform for the four Melanesian states — PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji — plus a participating French-