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Op-Ed: Ocean Monitoring is in Trouble, and the EU and Asia Must Save It
[By Sabrina Speich, John Abraham, Kevin Trenberth and Lijing Cheng] The world relies on a modest number of countries to keep watch...
Read More >>U.S. and Iran Agree to 60-Day Ceasefire Deal to End Hormuz Crisis
The U.S. and Iran have completed a long-awaited agreement to bring an end to the Strait of Hormuz standoff and restart traffic. Th...
Read More >>Britain Seizes its First Shadow Fleet Tanker
In the early hours of June 14, British Royal Marines boarded the Cameroon-flagged Aframax Smyrtos (IMO 9389100) ) in the English C...
Read More >>Op-Ed: The Coast Guard Museum Needs an Exhibit on SASH History
Last week, the Virginia State Bar Military and Veterans Law Section gave me an award for my pro bono advocacy work to help Coast G...
Read More >>White House Rolls Back Fishing Ban in Three Pacific Nat'l Monuments
The Trump administration has reopened three more marine national monument areas to commercial fishing, reversing previous administ...
Read More >>Philippines Raise Alarm Over New Chinese Structures at Scarborough Shoal
China's government has a long history of expanding its physical footprint in the Philippine exclusive economic zone, from small bu...
Read More >>USCG Selects Kodiak and Seward as Homeports for Arctic Security Cutters
The U.S. Coast Guard has selected the Alaskan ports of Kodiak and Seward as the first homeports for its new fleet of Arctic Securi...
Read More >>Armed Cocaine Smuggler Caught on Barge off San Juan
On June 10, Coast Guard Sector San Juan detained a stowaway and seized hundreds of kilos of cocaine aboard a barge off the coast o...
Read More >>British Defence Minister Resigns as Defense Budget Increase Evaporates
John Healey, the British Defence Minister, has resigned in protest at the UK government’s failure to fund the long-awaited Defence...
Read More >>After US Airstrikes, Iran Declares Hormuz "Closed" to All Vessel Traffic
Oil futures ticked up Thursday morning as Iran and the United States traded strikes and counterstrikes, with renewed threats of vi...
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