16TH MAY 2018 A Japanese shipping company that delivered steel products to the Wilmington, North Carolina has been convicted and sentenced for obstruction of justice and falsification of an Oil Record Book in an attempt to cover-up intentional oil pollution from the bulk carrier M/V Atlantic Oasis, the U.S. Justice …
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14th may 2018 The Paris MOU on Port State Control is warning that it intends to enforce new international regulations limiting the amount of sulphur in fuel oil used on board ships from “day one”. The warning comes in anticipation of the International Maritime Organization’s low sulphur fuel rule which is to …
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15 MAY 2018 Heart disease kills more people around the world than anything else. More than 17 million people die every year of cardiovascular diseases, including heart attacks and strokes. It can be difficult to change some of the behaviors that lead to those deaths – but that doesn’t stop researchers from trying …
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14 MAY 2018 Sometimes mushroom hunting can yield much more than you bargain for. In the case of a forest delver in Minnesota, the discovery was straight out of a twisted tale on mutant creatures – a deceased, two-headed deer fawn. “It’s amazing and extremely rare,” says deer ecologist Gino D’Angelo of …
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13 MAY 2018 In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation. Doctors had removed one of his lungs in a procedure that had taken several hours — and would keep him hospitalized for three months. But Harrison was alive, thanks in large part to …
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11TH MAY 2018 An explosion has damaged a Turkish vessel carrying wheat to Yemen’s Houthi-controlled port of Saleef, with varying accounts attributing the incident on Thursday to an unexplained blast aboard the ship or a possible missile strike. A naval ship of a Saudi-led military coalition received a call from …
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