Jennifer Lynch is something of an ocean detective. The Hawaii research biologist is supervising a massive study in which scientists are sorting through 21 tonnes of garbage-laden fishing nets that have washed up on Hawaii’s shores.
Lynn and Shairstein Garner are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Sadie Garner, to Brayden Daryl Parker. Parents of the groom are Paul and Saundra Parker. The couple
“Ghost nets” from unknown origins drift among the Pacific’s currents, threatening sea creatures and littering shorelines with the entangled remains of what they kill.
May 30 A U.S. missile defense test that likely was the one delayed off Kauai earlier this week due to the presence of a Russian surveillance ship was carried out today with a salvo of SM-6 ship-fired missiles failing to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile target.
The Missile Defense Agency, i
NEW DELHI, May 31, 2021 - ( JCN Newswire ) - Tension is mounting in the South China Sea with the Philippines refusing to withdraw vessels from Whitsun Reef. Some 220 Chinese vessels congregated in early March at Union Banks and Whitsun Reef, providing for the present standoff between China and the Philippines. The area involved in the present dispute is well within the 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Philippines. China wants to dominate the South China Sea because that would give Beijing a strategic advantage against Taiwan and Japan, before risking a conflict over the Senkaku. President Xi Jingping has always gone for an easy target that he believes can be achieved with minimal risk and costs. Recent media reports suggest that China has warned the United States that it will face defeat if the two superpowers go to war, testimony to what China thinks about its military might. The threat to the US has come from China in response to the joint military exercise rece