30 AUG 2022 Earth is about to be lashed by solar storms, according to reports from several space weather agencies around the world. Thanks to the double whammy of a high solar wind speed and several coronal mass ejections, we could be seeing a strong storm, as well as several moderate …
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29 AUG 2022 The Met Office has issued several “yellow thunderstorm warnings” for the UK, highlighting the potential for frequent lightning. While your chance of getting struck by lightning is low, it’s important to know how to stay safe during a thunderstorm. Globally, about 24,000 people each year are killed by lightning and another 240,000 …
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28 AUG 2022 The demand to substantially eliminate the 1,076 million tonnes (2018) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions , which includes carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), expressed in CO2e or CO2eq of total shipping (international, domestic and fishing) is often centred on assets like ships, engines, and alternative …
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27 AUG 2022 In a new example of criminalization of mariner liability, a court in Dubai has issued a suspended jail sentence and a $28,000 fine to five crewmembers of the container feeder Ocean Trader, which suffered a cargo container explosion at Jebel Ali last year. On June 27, 2021, three containers …
Read More »26 AUG 2022 With his family, Mohammad Selim, a Rohingya Muslim refugee, is hiding in a village in eastern India, May 2019, after fleeing a police crackdown in a Rohingya refugee colony in north India. Recently the Rohingya man was arrested and sent to jail by Indian The Indian government …
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25 AUG 2022 What is the situation of the Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh five years ago? Nearly all of the approximately 730,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar in the second half of 2017 remain in sprawling refugee camps in southern Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar. The total number of Rohingya refugees in …
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24 AUG 2022 For the past five years, there has been much speculation about repatriation of Rohingya refugees. Recently, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, added a new dimension to the issue. On August 16, she visited the Rohingya camp in Ukhia, an administrative region in Cox’s …
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23 AUG 2022 The Rohingya have been termed as the most persecuted community and for good reason. As the world nears five years since the last influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, the humanitarian crisis has been overshadowed multiple times by global issues. Having been eclipsed by Covid-19 for the …
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25 AUG 2022 China has not done itself any favors with the PLA visit this month, which plays into concerns that it is trying to militarize the island. The Chinese tracking ship Yuan Wang 5 has finally docked at Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka for replenishment after India and the United States tried, …
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24 AUG 2022 Ukrainian grain flows are pushing down global prices as the newly opened crop-export corridor shows initial success. More than 500,000 tons of foodstuffs aboard 21 ships were exported from the country’s major Black Sea ports in the first half of August, under a deal agreed late last month. That’s far below …
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