US: A cooperative plan for 21st century sea power

Source: ISN
This article discusses the United States maritime strategy, "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower", which was unveiled at the International Seapower Symposium at the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island in October 2007, by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, the Marine Corps Commandant, General James T Conway, and the Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Thad W Allen. It is the first maritime strategy created jointly by the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, shifting from a narrow focus on sea combat toward one that also emphasises the use of "soft power" to counter terrorism and deliver humanitarian assistance. The strategy stresses preventing conflict as much as winning wars, and recognises that no one nation can secure the world's waters against terrorism and other threats.

Atlantic flood risk

Source: Bridge Marine Science Group newsletter
A research group at the University of Hamburg in Germany have constructed a computer model which analyses the detail of huge amounts of meltwater from the Greenland Ice cap being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. Ironically the results indicate that the low lying Pacific Islands, previously thought to be most at risk, might in fact be among the last to be affected.