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"Humans Are Damaging The High Seas — Now The Oceans Are Doing Harm Back"  — Economist — January 13, 2015

The authors survey the numerous problems afflicting the world's oceans and argue that the world needs a "new approach to the economics and governance of the high seas", including more emphasis on enforcing existing international law and reforming UNCLOS to better address environmental problems.

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"Frozen Conflict: Denmark claims the North Pole"  — Economist — December 20, 2014

Denmark has laid claim to the North Pole, saying that under UNCLOS, some 900,000 square kilometres of the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland belongs to it (Greenland is a self-governing part of Denmark).

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"Governing the high seas"  — Editorial — Economist — February 22, 2014

The Economist calls for better international governance of the global oceans commons and its valuable resources. It praises the work being done to promote the UNCLOS regime but argues that more work needs to be done to create new institutions and strengthen existing ones.

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