What happens in Japanese politics over the coming months will ripple far beyond the country s shores.

Given the geography of India, with a coastline extending 4,000 miles and with 1,300 islands, we have a traditional and abiding interest in maritime and ocean affairs.

The new images have caused smaller islands, such as some atolls in the Maldives, to be rendered invisible despite their shores being completely outlined.

According to Saudi Arabia, 130,000 wading birds (mainly plovers and sandpipers) are normally found between March and May on its beaches.

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA China s government has been using unusually strong language of late to assert its sovereignty over disputed stretches of international waters near to its shores.

Iraq argues that Iran has failed to provide any conclusive evidence to show that the oil on its coastline (or any ascertainable proportion of the oil) came from the 1991 spills.

Today we read from Batir Wardam in Jordan writing on the blog Arab Environment Monitor about his thoughts on an article that appeared in Reuters, specifically the acknowledgment of Egypt's efforts in protecting its sea shores.

This region has a special role to play in completing the decolonization process for the remaining territories whose shores are washed by our beloved Caribbean Sea, and whose peoples are integral to the further development of our Caribbean civilization.

More importantly, as the world s leader in stringent, real time censorship of electronic communications, China is strongly placed to block any Arab contagion from reaching its shores.

In that context, Tunisia has adopted, last June, a law that creates an exclusive economic zone on its shores, in line with the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and following similar declarations made by various countries in the region.