1, A new evolution: exploration and development of the ocean : --
The future of the oceans --
Accelerating ocean exploration / Marcia McNutt --
Expanded boundaries and hidden treasures / Robert D. Ballard --
Space exploration dollars dwarf ocean spending / Michael Conathan --
Implementing the National Ocean Policy / Liza Johnson --
National Ocean Policy creates more red tape, hurts economy / Doc Hastings --
National Ocean Policy: plan, schedule, but no muscle / Pietro Parravano, Zeke Grader --
New federal ocean policy bodes ill for Alaska / Charisse Millett --
Advocates push for new Atlantic offshore drilling / Emery P. Dalesio --
Proposed energy exploration sparks worry on ocean canyons / Paul Greenberg.
2, The exploited seas : --
From collapsing fisheries to oil spills --
Deep sea mining: coming soon to an ocean near you / Carlos Duarte, Sophie Arnaud-Haond --
Will deep-sea mining yield an underwater gold rush? / Meghan Miner --
Why Arctic Ocean oil drilling is a risky choice / Rick Steiner --
No more offshore drilling: clean energy needs to be our goal / Jacqueline Savitz --
California finds more instances of offshore fracking / Alicia Chang, Jason Dearen --
The Empty Oceans Act: House offers draft bill to gut protections for fisheries and fishing economies / Alexandra Adams --
Ocean grabbing: plundering a common resource / Michèle Mesmain --
Fish 2.0: investing in sustainable oceans and fisheries / David Bank.
3, Sea stewardship and the cost of neglect : --
Pollution, climate change, and beyond --
Climate change to cause "massive" ocean damage by 2100 / Environment News Service --
Ocean acidification: the other climate change issue / Ashanti Johnson, Natasha D. White --
Ocean acidification decreases growth and development in American lobster (Homarus americanus) larvae / Elise A. Keppel, Ricardo A. Scrosati, Simon C. Courtenay --
US has failed to protect marine life, say conservationists / Carey L. Biron --
Scientists call for global action on coral reefs / Alex Peel --
Arctic at risk from invasive species / Christopher Ware --
Our trash has become a new ocean ecosystem called "the plastisphere" / Sarah Zhang --
Navy expands sonar testing despite troubling signs / Julie Watson, Alicia Chang --
How military sonar may be harming endangered blue whales / Joseph Bennington-Castro.
4, Hubris on the high seas : --
China's Indian Ocean strategy not a danger
The road to war is paved with Chinese intentions / James Dunnigan --
ASEAN must show solidarity / Alejandro Del Rosario --
US Navy's Indian Ocean folly? / James Holmes, Toshi Yoshihara --
Military activities in the exclusive economic zones of foreign coastal states / Moritaka Hayashi --
No fishing: row erupts between China and US over fishing restrictions / Reuters --
China's new fishing regulations: an act of state piracy? / Carl Thayer --
A hidden victim of Somali pirates: science / Paul Salopek.
5, Drifting along: the rise of the environmental refugee : --
Environmental refugees in a changing global climate --
Who will become the world's first climate change refugee? / Robert McLeman --
What happens when your country drowns? / Rachel Morris --
Where will we live? / Michael Le Page, Jeff Hecht, Richard Fisher --
The rising tide: environmental refugees / Andrew Lam --
Environmental refugees growing in numbers without real solution / Trisha Marczak --
Kiribati and the impending climate refugee crisis / Sandi Keane --
Threatened by rising seas, small island nations appeal for more aid at UN / UN News Centre --
"Climate change refugee" fighting to stay in New Zealand, argues rising sea levels makes Pacific Island home too dangerous / Nick Perry --
Stop using the term "environmental refugee" / Tim Kovach --
What should be done about climate change refugees? / Debra Black --
Artificial island could be solution for rising Pacific sea levels / John Vidal --
Floating islands to the rescue in the Maldives / Debra Black --
America's first climate refugees / Suzanne Goldenberg --
Beyond asylum seeker funerals / Andrew Hamilton.