Mortality and injuries caused by ship strikes in U.S. waters are a cause of concern for the endangered population of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) occupying the eastern North Pacific. We sought to determine which areas along the U.S. West Coast are most important to blue whales and whether those areas change inter-annually. Argos-monitored satellite tags were attached to 171 blue whales o...

Maritime Domain Awareness is an initiative started to help each sea-bordering country improve its understanding of its Exclusive Economic Zone. A country that improves its Maritime Domain Awareness ensures that activities such as piracy and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing are identified more quickly and the appropriate actions for each are taken. For instance, having better awarenes...

After the permanent demarcation of Exclusive Economic Zone boundaries with Myanmar and India through International Tribunal for Law Sea United Nations Convention on Sea, Bangladesh has exclusive rights to exploit explore marine resources across 118,813 km2 in Bay Bengal. To reap economic benefits from maritime space, government recently emphasized development a blue economy. Maritime activities...

Terrestrial vegetation sinks have entered the Kyoto Protocol as offsets for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, but ocean sinks have escaped attention. Ocean sinks are as unexplored and uncertain as were the terrestrial sinks at the time of negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol. It is not unlikely that certain countries will advocate the inclusion of ocean carbon sinks to reduce their emission ...

BACKGROUND Under the United Nations convention on the law of the sea (1982), each participating country maintains exclusive economic and environmental rights within the oceanic region extending 200 nm from its coastline, known as the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Although the ocean within each EEZ has a vast capacity to absorb anthropogenic CO2 and therefore potentially be used as a carbon sin...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the current legal framework regarding offshore constructions in Germany. regulations examined relate construction installations German exclusive economic zone. Subsequently, possibility on high seas considered. At beginning article, situation investments renewable energies presented. International rules play a special role investment opportunities seas....

With the rapid economic growth and development, the problem of environmental pollution in China’s cities is becoming increasingly serious, and environmental pollution takes on a regional difference. There is, however, little comprehensive evaluation on the environmental performance and the regional difference of strictly-environmental-monitored cities in China. In this paper, the environmental ...