‘TROUBLED WATERS’: MARITIME ISSUES IN PALK STRAIT, INDIAN OCEAN

Oil on troubled waters.

either by changing the ice sheet's basal thermal regime or by introducing water into the path of the ice stream through periodic drainage events. If this proves to be the case, it would substantially change our understanding of the effect of subglacial lakes on ice-sheet stability. It indicates that basal hydrology needs to be accounted for in numerical models of ice-sheet motion because it has...

Troubled fishing in Pacific waters

The Pacific island countries persist with tuna fishing policies that are significantly inferior to what appear to be the economically and environmentally sensible courses to follow. Economists have been offering advice over a fairly long period about better policy options without having any discernable favourable impact. This lack of success might be due, as Gordon Tullock once said, to the fac...

Seasonal Variations in the Physico-Chemical Characteristics of the Two Coastal Waters of Palk-Strait in Tamil Nadu, India

In the present study the hydrographical parameters like temperature, hydrogen ion concentration (pH), salinity, conductivity, light penetration, turbidity, total suspended solids (mg/l), total dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen (mg/l), biological oxygen demand (mg/l) and nutrients of the surface waters were studied in both stations of Manamelkudi and S.P. Pattinam. All the physico-chemical para...

A bridge over troubled waters.

Lung transplantation (LTx) remains the only therapeutic strategy for the treatment of end-stage respiratory failure in selected patients [1,2]. However, clinical scenario of LTx is rapidly changing. Two aspects still characterize LTx in comparison with the transplant of other solid organs. First, only a limited number of lung grafts is considered suitable for transplant within the donors’ pool....

Aquaculture Navigates Through Troubled Waters