19 MAY 2023 The United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) has today commemorated its second International Day for Women in Maritime. The day, marked on May 18, serves to underscore the crucial role of collaboration and networking in achieving gender equality in the maritime sector. IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim emphasized the role …
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24 MAY 2023 As winter approaches, many parents will be bracing for the cold and flu season. Young children typically get at least six colds a year. In previous generations, parents might have reached for the cough syrup to relieve a dry or chesty cough. But we now know cough syrups aren’t …
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23 MAY 2023 BIMCO is forecasting that as emission regulations tighten on the shipping industry the rate of ships sold for scrap is likely to more than double in the coming decade. The trade group says while reducing carbon emissions out of the smokestack will be a motivation along with …
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21 MAY 2023 New Zealand ro/pax ferry operator KiwiRail will be the first passenger vessel owner to install and use a new form of lifesaving device, the Viking LifeCraft. KiwiRail carries about 800,000 passengers per year across the Cook Strait between New Zealand’s North Island and South Island. It is …
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20 MAY 2023 Last summer, we travelled to the remote Arctic Hausgarten observatory area in the eastern Fram Strait (west of Svalbard, Norway) on a research ship. The samples we collected there included ice cores, sea water and ice algae from large packs of floating ice called ice floes. These form …
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18 MAY 2023 Deep sleep could be key to forestalling slow declines in brain health that may one day lead to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Based on their investigation involving 62 older, cognitively healthy adults, researchers from the University of California (UC) Berkeley, Stanford University, and UC Irvine …
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15 MAY 2023 Diagnosing cancer early makes a significant difference to the chances of a patient’s successful recovery, which is why cheap, non-invasive screening tests are so important. A new diagnostic tool development by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US needs little more than a sample of …
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12 MAY 2023 Since the Cambrian explosion 538.8 million years ago – a time when many of the animal phyla we’re familiar with today were established – five major mass extinction events have whittled down the biodiversity of all creatures great and small. Last year, researchers from the US published evidence of …
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09 MAY 2023 Last week, the IMO (International Maritime Organization) and the umbrella body of African maritime regulators AAMA (Association of African Maritime Administrations) held deliberations aimed at accelerating shipping decarbonization in Africa. While green shipping is a complex matter globally, developing nations face a bigger challenge due to limited …
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07 MAY 2023 The Nigerian Navy issued a statement confirming that a plea deal has been struck for the release of the crew of the tanker Heroic Idun while also denying media reports that the crew has been released. The Navy is emphasizing that there are pre-conditions on the release. This came out …
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