Trust and coast eroded, Indian fishing hamlet boycotts polls
An estimated 7,000 voters boycotted Tuesday s local elections, saying there was no point in voting since government never listens nor fulfills its pledges to protect their fast-shrinking corner of southern Kerala.
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A damaged police station as a result of rising sea levels and coastal erosion is seen at the Sagar island February 19, 2007. All that separates residents from a rising sea is a mud embankment, a fragile barrier tasked with holding back the inevitable flood that one day will wash away their island home. Hundreds living on West Bengal s sparsely populated Moushuni island - part of the Sunderbans national park and the world s largest mangrove forest - has never heard the term global warming but they are living with its consequences. Picture taken February 19, 2007. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw (INDIA)
Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. April 1, 2021 Mooring retrieved on board the Svalbard (photo credit: Daniel Fatnes of the Norwegian Coast Guard)
Who do you call when you need a job done on short notice, in total darkness, under 100-percent ice cover, thousands of meters at the bottom of the sea? In the case of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), you call your friends in Norway.
That is exactly what the Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral Lorin C. Selby did when he enlisted the help of the Norwegian Coast Guard icebreaker and offshore patrol vessel, the
CGV Svalbard, to retrieve oceanographic moorings containing irreplaceable data.