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And higher sea levels are just one potential threat.
Just as Lula’s 2002 election signified a sea of change in a highly class-conscious, socially stratified society, Silva’s election would shake up the racial order in a country – and indeed continent – where racism has not been eradicated.
The ban on tank-washing, technical features such as double hulls and sectioning of tanks, introduction of one-way sea lanes and, most important, the use of Global Positioning Systems, have greatly reduced the amount of oil entering the sea from tankers.
Then, suddenly,“the party vanished, overnight, as if all of a sudden a giant sponge had drained the entire sea, Adriatic and Austral, leaving litter and clots of mud, and all the boats stranded.
How can you go home again if the sea has been sucked down a vast drain that opened up beneath it, emptying it who knows where, into a void?
Serious magazines, general-interest journals, and newspapers traditionally filled the space between the ether of peer-reviewed journals and the deep sea of hoaxes; yet they all struggle to survive the digital revolution.
Under the military regimes in Chile or Argentina, a person might be tossed into the sea from a helicopter, never to be found.
Over the course of this century, the ideal EU policy would cost more than $7 trillion, yet it would reduce the temperature rise by just 0.05oC and lower sea levels by a trivial nine millimeters.
Unless its international allies throw it a lifeline, it risks being swallowed by a sea of disorder that could imperil the entire region.
Heraclitus's warning against bathing in the same sea twice is lost on our economic ministers, who insist on bathing regularly in contaminated waters.
Banking on the UnbankedTORONTO – In a sea of gloomy news, one bright headline appears on the horizon.
That theory sounds as general and fundamental as the theory that global warming is melting glaciers and raising sea levels around the world.
Rising sea levels would explain a lot of geological and economic events.
If the world fails to mitigate future climate change, the effects of rising temperatures, increasing droughts, more numerous and severe tropical storms, rising sea levels, and a spread of tropical diseases will pose huge threats to the entire planet.
Bangladesh’s Quest for JusticeNEW DELHI – The sea of humanity besieging the Shahbag area in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, for the last two months, has had an unusual demand – unusual, at least, for the Indian subcontinent.
Some view the man considered a mass murderer in the West as an icon, and his death and burial at sea at the hands of American forces will not undermine that perception in the eyes of his sympathizers.
Now, the “Berlin Republic” is very secure about its identity – and seemingly at sea in its dealings with the world.
For example, one of the most immediate and severe consequences of climate change could be a rapid rise in sea level.
We know that the sea level rose by roughly 100 meters during the last 12,000 years.
During the last 200 years, a period when we have had accurate measurements from tide gauges, the sea level has continued to rise slowly.
The melting causes the sea level to rise, whereas the snow causes it to fall.
It would be unfortunate if China and India were to impoverish themselves by ceasing to burn coal, only to have the resulting decrease of snowfall over Greenland and Antarctica cause sea levels to rise faster.
In a sea of pessimism about democracy in the EU’s neighborhood, some winds are still blowing in the right direction.
For example, many nuclear-power plants located along the British coast are just a few meters above sea level.
Nuclear plants located by the sea do not face similar problems in hot conditions, because ocean waters do not heat up anywhere near as rapidly as rivers or lakes.
Then there are the bold actions of moral entrepreneurs like Chris and Regina Catrambone, who created the Migrant Offshore Aid Station to rescue people at sea; the founders of Refugees Welcome, the Airbnb-type platform to match asylum seekers with families willing to host them; and Refugee Air, a pioneering Swedish effort to enable qualified asylum-seekers to fly to Europe.
In fact, the desire for self-improvement through migration is a key element of the human story – one that no desert, sea, or artificial barrier has been able to quell.
For example, Puerto Rico is subject to the Jones Act, which requires using very costly US-built ships and crews for all sea transport to and from the mainland.
Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Western powers have sought to control the Middle East for a variety of reasons, including claims on oil, access to international sea routes, Israel’s security, and geopolitical competition with Russia in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Undoubtedly, the US will try to build closer ties with Indonesia through greater military cooperation, because Indonesia borders the region’s key sea lines of communications.
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