15 FEB 2022  In Nairobi this month, the world’s governments will discuss the path towards the first global treaty to tackle plastic pollution. But with multiple proposals on the table, the scope and ambition of a future treaty hangs in the balance. The UN Environment Assembly, which is scheduled for 28 …

14 FEB 2022 With U.S. domestic natural gas trading at the highest prices seen since 2014, America’s LNG exporters are ramping up gas exports at a record rate, sending cargoes overseas for consumers in Europe and Asia – where prices are far higher. According to Bloomberg, U.S. LNG exporters set …

09 FEB 2022  The British second officer aboard the ”Scot Carrier” who was the helmsman when the vessel collided with the Danish barge Karin Høj in December has been extradited to Denmark to stand trial. The 30-year-old seaman is facing charges of negligent manslaughter and gross negligence leading to the death of the two …

21 FEB 2022  “The dark oceans were the womb of life: from the protecting oceans life emerged.” These were the words in a prophetic speech by Arvid Pardo to a UN meeting in 1967. It was amongst the first sessions convened to deliberate creation of a body of laws to …

20 FEB 2022 Without extreme caution, we may pull high-carbon fuels into the value chain in pursuit of the zero-emissions dream. Countries around the world are adopting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets of zero emissions by 2050. The global marine shipping industry is also evaluating whether to increase the current …

19 FEB 2022 Scientists deliberately infected young, healthy volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 – and now, they’ve shared their first results from that experiment.    The new study, published Tuesday (Feb. 1) in Springer Nature’s preprint database, In Review, has not yet been peer-reviewed, but it could provide insight into how mild COVID-19 unfolds, from …

18 FEB 2022  Value chain disruptions are increasingly blamed for inflationary tendencies, although there are multiple other factors that can drive consumer prices up. Since the summer of 2020, continuous challenges caused by tighter capacity of boxes, ships, port infrastructure and hinterland transport have caused far reaching impacts on supply …

12 FEB 2022  Timed to the opening of the One Ocean Summit being hosted in France this week, environmental activists are staging a series of events to call attention to their demands for an international moratorium on deep-sea mining. Greenpeace is planning a demonstration at the conference in Brest, France …

10 FEB 2022  The owner of the tanker that collided with the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad in 2018 has agreed to pay about $27 million in compensation to the Norwegian government for the loss of the warship. The Helge Ingstad collided with the tanker Sola TS off the Sture oil terminal in Norway’s Hjeltefjord on November …

17 FEB 2022  All of America’s leading mariners’ unions have joined together to oppose the creation of an open-registry flag in the U.S. Virgin Islands, describing it as an “exercise in labor arbitrage designed to generate registry fees.” If created, the USVI flag would be “the first, and only, international US open …