Tag: Pacific Ocean
What is this climate asylum story in Australia?
Australia will become a welcoming land for climate refugees. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Tuvalu counterpart Kausea Natano unveiled the terms of an agreement on Friday: Canberra will…
Seabed: raw material store or habitat?
Corporations could soon start deep-sea mining – and destroy a unique ecosystem. On the way with the research ship “Sonne” to manganese nodules and sea cucumbers. source site
If you look for shelter in a basement in Japan when there is a bomb alarm, you probably won’t find anyone – panorama
The other day there was another bomb alert in northern Japan, on a Thursday morning in April. Only for half an hour, because the authorities quickly determined that the reported…
Herbert Clyde Lewis “Gentleman Overboard” – Culture
What does one think who falls from a ship into the sea? Herbert Clyde Lewis explores this in his novel Gentleman Overboard, a great rediscovery. From Christian Lutz The gently…
Australia gets nuclear-powered submarines from US policy
From Fabian Fellman, Washington The first US nuclear submarine has already arrived in Australia. The USS Asheville was on patrol in Perth, the city on the continent’s west coast that…
Australia orders nuclear submarines in the US – Politics
According to insiders, Australia is arming itself with nuclear-powered submarines from the USA against the background of China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific. From 2030, three submarines of the Virginia-class…
North Korea fires missile – Japan calls on residents to evacuate
North Korea has continued the recent series of missile tests. Apparently a ballistic missile flew over Japan. Local residents fled to safety. After North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile,…
China and Japan: Malicing over Shinzo Abe’s death – Politics
Comments like “let the celebrations begin” and posts calling the assassin of ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a “true hero” were just two of the numerous ugly remarks that millions…
Climate conference in Glasgow: small island states accuse greenwashing – politics
Lia Nicholson leads the negotiations for island states from the Caribbean region at the World Climate Conference. It calls on the industrialized countries to finally solve the problem that they…
Climate conference in Glasgow: small island states accuse greenwashing – politics
Lia Nicholson leads the negotiations for island states from the Caribbean region at the World Climate Conference. It calls on the industrialized countries to finally solve the problem that they…