25 SEPT 2025 Once a haven for flamingos, sturgeon and thousands of seals, fast-receding waters are turning the northern coast of the Caspian Sea into barren stretches of dry sand. In some places, the sea has retreated more than 50 kilometers. Wetlands are becoming deserts, fishing ports are being left …
Read More »NATIONS RATIFY FIRST GLOBAL TREATY TO PROTECT OCEAN LIFE
25 SEPT 2025 As climate impacts multiply, a landmark United Nations treaty to protect ocean lifewill go into effect in January. Sierra Leone and Morocco on Friday provided the final of the 60 votes needed to ratify the accord on the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources, ending a process that started in September …
Read More »THE SANCTIONS GAME
24 SEPT 2025 There’s no limit to human ingenuity, especially when there’s oil and gas involved Here’s an extreme example of globalization’s tenacity and resilience: Russia, while subject to over 30,000 separate sanctions from nations around the world, has nevertheless exported $913 billion of oil and gas these past few …
Read More »MAJOR SHIPPING FIRMS WARNS NET ZERO PLAN COULD COST OVER $300 BILLION
23 SEPT 2025 A group of shipping firms warned that the International Maritime Organization’s planned net zero rules risk imposing significant costs on the industry. The IMO, shipping’s global regulator, has set a goal of net zero for shipping by mid-century and next month aims to formally adopt a plan that would see ships …
Read More »CHIEF ENGINEER PLEADS GUILTY IN 2024 MSC RUNAWAY INCIDENT IN CHARLESTON
22 SEPT 2025 The chief engineer working on the MSC Michigan VII in June 2024, when the vessel had a runaway incident as it was departing Charleston, South Carolina, entered into a plea agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office. In filing the agreement in the U.S. District Court in South …
Read More »IRANIAN OIL EXPORTS TO CHINA ARE BACK ON THE RISE
21 SEPT 2025 After a period from March to May in which Iranian exports of crude oil to China fell substantially, in the three months from June to August sales have resumed their upward trend. According to Kpler, Chinese ports unloaded 1.68 million barrels per day in August, an increase …
Read More »OVER 180 SHIPPING COMPANIES BACK IMO NET ZERO FRAMEWORK
21 SEPT 2025 Members of the Getting to Zero Coalition say a failure to back the IMO net zero framework next month risks “significant negative consequences” for the industry. Battle lines are being drawn ahead of next month second IMO extraordinary MEPC meeting to decide on the adoption of the …
Read More »CALLS FOR NET-ZERO PAUSE BRUSHED ASIDE BY IMO
20 SEPT 2025 IMO responds to criticisms of its net zero strategy with the Secretary General backing the member states to approve the regulation in next month’s extraordinary meeting. International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez said he is confident that the UN body will approve the net zero …
Read More »AHEAD OF IMO MEETING, CRITIQUES OF NET-ZERO FRAMEWORK EMERGE
20 SEPT 2025 Following the Trump administration’s pointed criticism of the IMO’s net zero greenhouse gas framework, a growing chorus of voices from industry are proposing to relax the terms of the agreement, which was tentatively approved at MEPC 83 five months ago. On Thursday, a group of large shipowners …
Read More »BREAST CANCER OFTEN RETURNS – BUT WE MAY HAVE A NEW WAY TO STOP IT
20 SEPT 2025 Following nearly 30 percent of successful breast cancer treatments, tumors return, claiming 685,000 lives worldwide every year. Now, we may have a new method for significantly reducing those recurring cases. A study led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania shows that actively targeting dormant tumor cells …
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