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23 AUG 2023 The first international ship to break out of the Ukrainian seaports on the Black Sea arrived in Turkey around midnight on August 17 without incident. Ukrainian officials were calling the Black Sea transit a breakthrough while Turkey said it had warned Russia about further approaches to merchant …

21 AUG 2023 If you were told to do more exercise to lower your blood pressure, you might think you’d need break out you running gear or hit the weights. But one of us (Jamie) recently published research that found exercises that you hold in a static position, such as planks and …

20 AUG 2023 Billions of nanometer-wide particles can be released from plastic containers into the food they’re holding when they’re microwaved, a new study reveals. A team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US ran experiments using baby food containers made from polypropylene and polyethylene, which are both approved as safe to use …

19 AUG 2023                         Bicep curls aren’t the only way to strengthen your arm muscles. A recent study demonstrates an effective alternative technique that achieves results after just three seconds of working out three times a week. That’s just 36 seconds of weight work over the course of a month, according …

17 AUG 2023 In 2015, research on global forest cover revealed a concerning fact: 70 percent of the world’s remaining forest now lies within 1 kilometer of the forest’s edge. This process, called fragmentation, is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink. Forest fragmentation is bad news …

09 AUG 2023  Amid news of lethal heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere comes the daunting prospect of a climate disaster on an altogether grander scale. New findings published in Nature Communications suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc, could collapse within the next few decades – maybe even within the next …

08 AUG 2023  A consortium of Japanese companies is working to develop a new concept in floating offshore wind turbines that they report will be easier to manufacture while also costing less to build and maintain. Known as a vertical axis wind turbine, they believe it will be the next …

05 AUG 2023  Cargo liquefaction remains the single biggest risk for loss of life in the bulk carrier trade, according to a new long term casualty report from Intercargo. The long-term rolling report covers vessel losses from 2013-22. During the period, 26 seagoing bulkers went down, costing 104 lives and …

01 AUG 2023  Dutch authorities are leading the response after a car carrier caught fire off the northern coast of The Netherlands around midnight on July 25. As the fire continued to spread, the decision was made to evacuate the ship. One crewmember was killed and several others injured at …

30 JULY 2023 NATO said on Wednesday it was stepping up surveillance of the Black Sea region as it condemned Russia’s exit from a deal assuring the safe passage of ships carrying Ukrainian grain. The announcement came after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, a body established earlier this month …