Word: atlanticism
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8 | Brussels No Fishing The European Commission is backing a proposal to ban the international sale of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a Mediterranean species depleted by decades of overfishing. An estimated 90% of Europe's bluefin tuna is exported to Japan, where voracious sushi consumption has driven the fish's population...
A year ago today, the venerable investment-banking firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection after the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department pointedly refused to bail the company out, and no other Wall Street outfit was willing to step into the breach. It was the largest bankruptcy ever in...
The United States does have a significant geographic disadvantage when compared to tiny countries with faster networks, like Sweden or the Netherlands. Stringing high-speed access to rural areas is much easier when your entire country is the size of Illinois. But while a significant access gap exists between urban...
According to the International Commission for the Conservation of Tuna (ICCAT), a Madrid-based organization that regulates tuna fishing among most countries that engage in it, breeding stocks of bluefin tuna have declined to below 40% of their 1970 levels, with the steepest drop occurring in the past five to...
The commission agreement supports the proposal, sponsored by the tiny Mediterranean principality of Monaco, to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that Atlantic bluefin be included on a list of endangered species. The listing would automatically prohibit trade in the fish. If the commission's agreement is...