Lowering Flags of Convenience for Fish Poachers
New international measures to end fish poaching on the high seas would enforce laws where the poacher calls, not where their ships are registered.
New international measures to end fish poaching on the high seas would enforce laws where the poacher calls, not where their ships are registered.
Preventing seafood fraud won’t be easy, but a new law has potential to stop fish poaching and laundering, which involves mislabeling fish in restaurants.
Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution, similar to America’s FBI, isn’t doing its job against all the threats its homeland faces.
Europeans are lagging the United States in using aerial drones for police work – and they don’t really mind.
European experiences offer hints as to whether high seismicity in the U.S. oil patch is related to new gas extraction methods.
Iceland did something right in the credit crisis, perhaps offering lessons both for Greece and Occupy Wall Street protesters
Researchers advance the idea that ecstasy and other controversial drugs could help treat traumatized combat vets.
A thriving transatlantic trade in compressed wood scraps is creating New World timber jobs and meeting Old World clean energy requirements.
As renewable energy sources approach cost parity with traditional sources, phasing out nuclear power might in Germany be economically smart.
Competing solar projects are vying to supply Germany's renewable desires, each one trying to push the other into the shade.
Germany's energy revolution makes a shift to natural gas likely all over Europe.
Doing deals with the Russians to put a pipe under the North Sea gives Germany some flexibility in its post-nuclear future, but at what price?
The movement to change your incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescents completed its successful European Union campaign. The United States is next.
Like the homemakers in the book "Can't Pay, Won't Pay," the bureaucrats running Germany's financial house are saying enough is enough.
German Chancellor (and physicist) Angela Merkel did a 180 on nuclear energy after Fukushima, setting off an "energy revolution" in the process.
Phasing out nuclear power around the world is easier said than done; the Germans (and Japanese) are, so far, the most serious about it.
The future may hold a drug therapy for treating post-traumatic stress disorder, but some of the popular choices of the last few years, like Risperdal, won't be part of it.
The golden rule has some effectiveness as a therapeutic tool, even in treating combat stress.
Despite its martial traditions, Germany has lagged in coming to grips with post-traumatic stress disorder.
"If everybody had an ocean ..." perhaps Western militaries could start addressing cases of combat stress without medication, trading hang fire for hang 10.
A glimpse at the epigenetics of post-traumatic stress disorder suggests that the physical markers for PTSD may show up across generations.
The hippocampus, a structure inside the brain, shrinks after psychological trauma, which hints that a pharmaceutical cure may address post-traumatic stress disorder.
While the term "post-traumatic stress disorder" hints at a modern invention, the ill effects of combat stress have been documented back to the Iliad and Samuel Pepys.
Why do so many American and so few British soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress?
America's very successful freight train system will have to make some compromises to accommodate high-speed rail, but those needn't be the end of the world.
In the late 1980s, both Texas and Spain proposed high-speed rail systems: Texas walked away from the idea, while Spain leapt in a little too exuberantly.
While paying for its hefty infrastructure costs may be ambitious, many high-speed rail systems cover their operating costs and even turn a small operating profit.
German high-speed trains started in the provinces, too, but now have a fast, efficient and popular system crisscrossing the nation.
Using rail lines for the energy grid may help a suddenly nuclear-shy Germany transition to wider use of renewable sources.
Past experiences suggest that terrorists who want to derail a train are facing a much more complex task than just leaving a penny on the rail.
Keeping trains safe and keeping trains moving has been a balancing act in Germany, and so far all the weights are on the side of no waiting.
Will investing in speed and electrification create the "sparks effect" needed to convince Americans to ride high-speed rail?
When the United States starts talking about illicit drugs, why does the word "war" always makes its way into the conversation?
The Netherlands' netherworld of tolerated-but-still-illegal marijuana has its homegrown critics who argue for outright prohibition or outright legalization.
Washington remains optimistic about the war on drugs based on dips in the importation of cocaine. But even the “good news” derived from comparisons with Europe is distressing.
If pot were legal — not decriminalized, but legal — it likely would knock a few props from beneath rampaging Mexican drugs cartels, argues Michael Scott Moore.
U.S. drug laws should be loosened, argues Michael Scott Moore, but Holland — where soft drugs are not legal but are tolerated — is probably not the right model.
Drug courts can help ease the U.S. prison population and usher America into the civilized world when it comes to prosecuting drug-use offenses.
Portugal’s example suggests that de-escalating the war on drugs might create a new sort of peace dividend.
The idea that governments can reduce both addiction and street crime — and maybe bleed black markets dry — by managing drug distribution has gained momentum.
European governments have taken two divergent paths in dealing with the resurrected flow of narcotics from Afghanistan, legalization and an American-style war on drugs.
Europe has answered that question to its own satisfaction with a mandatory system that treats health care as a social insurance handled by private firms.
London’s new idea to fight pirates in the Indian Ocean: an insurance-led navy.
With Tunisian refugees streaming north, Europe’s vanguard of cultural gatekeepers start to refine their message.
Might Frau Nein's tough love debt limits translate into the U.S. needing German discipline?
The naval stalemate off Somalia has produced one positive — the pirates have so far brushed off getting cozy with terrorists.
The fine balance in Germany between markets and green energy policy highlights the real-world challenges for moving away from traditional power sources.
The relationship may be changing in Europe’s best-armed nation, which next month votes on how to store guns for its standing militia.
An old American idea to capture and use waste heat from electricity generation, adopted by Europe, needs to come back home for a visit.
Airport security in Europe tends to be more discreet than in the U.S. But an industry group wants to change that.