07 FEB 2023 With the tenure of IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim ending this year, the agency has set in motion the process of searching for a successor. One of the contenders for the position is Nancy Karigithu, currently Kenya’s Ambassador and Special Envoy for Shipping and Blue Economy. Both …
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06 FEB 2023 Planting more trees in urban areas to lower summertime temperatures could decrease deaths directly linked to hot weather and heatwaves by a third, researchers said Wednesday. Modelling found that increasing tree cover to 30 percent would shave off 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit) locally, on average, …
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05 FEB 2023 The “shadow fleet” of ships that transport Russian oil around the world has expanded to around 600 tankers, according to trading giant Trafigura. About 400 crude oil vessels, or 20% of the global fleet, have “switched” from mainstream trades to “ostensibly do Russian business,” co-head of oil …
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04 FEB 2023 Despite ongoing protests and a last-minute appeal to the courts, the Brazilian Navy confirmed that it has sunk the decommissioned aircraft carrier NAe São Paulo far off the coast of Brazil bringing to close a six-month drama that saw the vessel caught at sea. Environmental groups continue to call …
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03 FEB 2023 The Brazilian Navy confirmed that it plans to move forward with a controlled sinking of the decommissioned aircraft carrier NAe São Paulo in Brazilian waters. While they will not disclose the exact timing or location it is expected that they will move forward expeditiously after warning that …
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02 FEB 2023 The saga of the derelict former Brazilian aircraft carrier NAe São Paulo continues with the vessel having spent more than three months at sea, and now the possession of the hulk has reverted to the Brazilian Navy. While environmental groups contend the ship is heavily laden with asbestos and other …
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01 FEB 2023 AI computer vision technology is expanding everywhere – even under the waves AI computer vision technology has been automating imagery analysis in shoreside applications for years, identifying, categorizing and counting everything from cows to car parts. It is starting to make inroads in maritime for tasks like automatically spotting vessels and whales. …
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31 JAN 2023 As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient amounts of rare earth metals to build the technology is no easy feat. That’s leading mining companies to take a closer look at a largely unexplored frontier – the deep ocean seabed. …
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30 JAN 2023 Russian navy’s newest nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Generalissimo Suvorov is on its way to a temporary base for the Northern Fleet in the Arctic, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday, citing an unidentified defense source. “Recently, the submarine cruiser Generalissimo Suvorov has started moving from Severodvinsk, where it was …
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29 JAN 2023 One day in 2015, as I was driving to university, my vision went black. My vision returned moments later, but the world didn’t look the same after that. It was like a veil was covering my eyes – like I was seeing the world through an analog TV static. …
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