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 …
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26 JULY 2023 Efforts to stabilize a containership anchored near the entrance to Taiwan’s Kaohsiung port failed overnight. The feeder ship which had been abandoned on Thursday continued to take on water and sunk early Friday, July 21, with empty boxes scattered into the busy waterway. Port officials had suspended …
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23 JULY 2023 As we enter El Niño, periods of surging temperatures at sea are predicted to grow more frequent and intense. On 4 July 2023, the World Meteorological Organization declared the beginning of an El Niño phase, a climate pattern that drives up temperatures across land and sea. Past weather events provide …
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22 JULY 2023 A German non-profit environmental group is developing a plan to convert an existing bulker into a floating environmental center as part of their system to capture and recycle ocean and on shore plastics. According to the group in addition to the mobile nature of the vessel, it …
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UN inspectors examine the last ship to exit Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative protocol, July 17 (UN) 19 JULY 2023 On Monday, the Kremlin announced that it would reimpose a “temporarily dangerous” zone for foreign-flag grain bulkers in the northwestern Black Sea. By raising war risk beyond insurable …
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15 JULY 2023 In early July, the world’s oceans posted the highest average surface temperature ever recorded, a symptom of long-term warming combined with the onset of an El Niño pattern in the Pacific. The changed winds and ocean circulation patterns in an El Niño event distribute more of the …
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15 JULY 2023 Everyone has a characteristic odor; a distinctive scent. Now scientists have found that with just a whiff of someone’s hand – and a fancy protein analysis machine – they can distinguish between sexes with darn-good accuracy. In the study of 60 people, consisting of 30 men and …
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10 JUL 2023 In their constant search for new ways to stay thin, Hollywood embraced a new fad in 2023 in the form of the injectable type-2 diabetes drug called Ozempic. Promoted as a way to keep weight down, the medication tricks the brain into thinking the belly is full and suppresses …
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08 JUL 2023 The link between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the body’s ‘second brain‘ is more apparent than ever before. A new paper, authored by no less than 43 scientists of various disciplines, has found the strongest link yet between gut microbes, host immunity, genetic expression in the nervous system, and …
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05 JUL 2023 The traditional approach to weight loss is to count calories and try to reduce the number consumed each day. This is a time-consuming and error-prone process – often with disappointing results. Intermittent fasting – and the popular version known as time-restricted eating – could be a simpler option …
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