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The author surveys the emerging deep sea mining industry and argues that now is the time to engage and regulate the practice to ensure "the same industrial paradigm that destroyed much of the terrestrial ecosystems of our home planet to do the same in the deep sea."
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The Navy is preparing to send a surface ship inside the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit China claims for its man-made island chain, an action that could take place within days but awaits final approval from the Obama administration, according to military officials who spoke to Navy Times.
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Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a strongly worded address in Australia the United States remained "as committed as ever" to protect freedom of navigation through the Pacific region.
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A resurgent Russian Navy is creating an "arc of steel" meant to challenge and confront NATO, a top US naval officer warned Tuesday.
[ More ]The United States is poised to send naval ships and aircraft to the South China Sea in a challenge to Beijing’s territorial claims to its rapidly-built artificial islands, according to U.S. officials.
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U.S. national security leadership has put Arctic issues on the back burner for decades, focusing on global hot spots in the Middle East, Asia and Russia. But the ice pack on the roof of the world is melting, and a surge of economic and foreign military activity is forcing Washington to take a hard look at how to fund polar priorities under an already strained federal budget.
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One largely unseen effect of the Obama administration's decision to send its newest vessels and warplanes to Asia over the last four years is an underseas shadow war between the submarine fleets of both nations, echoing the dangerous sub battles with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
[ More ]China is preparing to launch a new ballistic missile submarine that could potentially target the entirety of the United States by the end of 2015.
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Permafrost may be mostly invisible underground, but the consequences of its thawing will be anything but. That's according to a new study that calculates the global economy could lose as much as $43 trillion by the end of the next century due to greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost -- a figure much worse than previously thought.
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The author lists a few policy recommendations or questions that need to be answered regarding U.S. Arctic strategy if the U.S. wants to "stay ahead of or even keep pace with our foreign rivals, remain globally competitive, or provide global leadership and influence in this critical region."
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