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26 MAR 2021  Despite new treaty requirements, U.S. customs data suggests that American exporters and the ocean carriers that transport their cargo are still shipping plastic waste to recycling plants in developing countries. These operations are often associated with uncontrolled dumping, allowing “recycled” plastic to escape into waterways and wash …

25 MAR 2021  Expressing its serious concern about the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea, the Danish government announced that it plans to deploy a frigate to the region in the fall of 2021. The decision to deploy a naval vessel to the region comes after the Danish …

24 MAR 2021 By Alex Longley and Alaric Nightingale (Bloomberg) — The market for moving oil across the world’s oceans is currently so bad that owners of the industry’s biggest supertankers are actually subsidizing the delivery of cargoes. Strange to think, then, that shares of two of the market’s biggest pureplay …

23 MAR 2021 Fishing trawlers that drag big nets along the ocean floor potentially release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the world’s commercial aviation industry. The first study to estimate the real carbon footprint of bottom trawling globally has found this type of fishing releases roughly 1.47 billion tonnes …

25 MAR 2021 Shipping faces a trillion-dollar challenge: How do you transition away from a high-carbon status quo to an uncertain, decarbonized future? It’s a tall order and will take a long list of technological and operational changes to pull it off – along with a tremendous amount of money. …

24 MAR 2021 Pi (π) is a constant describing the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. It is an irrational number usually summarized to two decimal places as 3.14. The Greek letter for P was chosen by the 18th century Welsh mathematics teacher William Jones, most likely to stand for …

23 MAR 2021 In 2015, research led by Jenna Jambeck, a professor at the University of Georgia, identified China as the world’s largest source of plastic waste reaching the ocean – accounting for nearly one-third of the total in 2010. Many Chinese researchers thought that figure too high but had …

22 MAR 2021 In the race to get coronavirus vaccines into arms as quickly as possible, scientists think they’ve found a way to accelerate the process: Give the people who’ve already had COVID-19 just one dose. Most vaccine-eligible Americans are getting either Pfizer or Moderna‘s vaccine, both of which require two doses administered several weeks …

21 MAR 2021 Around 6,200 years ago, 41 people in what is now Croatia were killed and buried in a mass grave, and members of their own community may have murdered them, according to new analysis of the remains. Adult men and women were among the dead, but ages in the …

20 MAR 2021 Tanker shipping company Stena Bulk has become the latest to unveil a radical new ship design that the company says challenges conventional thinking around efficiency and carbon-reduction in shipping. The newly introduced hybrid bulk carrier concept InfinityMAX will be powered by hydrogen and is designed to carry …