24 OCT 2021 For many people in the United States, a horse is likely to be a partner in sport and leisure, rather than labor. Yet it’s a pleasure that comes at a potential price, one many riders need to take more seriously. A study on a decade’s worth of …
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23 OCT 2021 Protests in Italy over the country’s new COVID-19 rules for workers spread on Friday to several of the country’s largest ports. While reports vary on the level of disruption, workers at three of the country’s major ports were reported either on strike or staging protests calling for …
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22 OCT 2021 China and the U.S. are saber-rattling once again as the harassment of Taiwan by the mainland continues with hundreds of sorties of fighters, bombers, and submarines near the island’s air and sea space. President Xi Jinping has made clear that all options are on the table and …
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20 OCT 2021 A rapid replacement of fossil fuels with renewable fuels based on green hydrogen along with advanced biofuels could enable to cut up to 80 percent of CO2 emissions by mid-century attributed to the international maritime sector. That is the assessment of a new report released by the …
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19 OCT 2021 One of China’s mid-sized shipbuilders, Tianjin Xingang Ship Heavy Industry, announced that it will stop all operations as of the end of October. The disbanding of the company comes despite the recent resurgence in shipbuilding orders and China’s overall leadership in the industry. The Shanghai International Maritime …
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18 OCT 2021 When 20 new crewmembers signed on to the bulker Trudy at an anchorage off Normandy last week, they likely did not expect that they would be swept up in the aftermath of a drug bust – but on Monday morning, they had unwelcome visitors. The Trudy was intercepted and …
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A US Geological Survey image shows green farmland marking a distinct boundary between the Nile floodplain and the surrounding harsh desert (USGS) 17 OCT 2021 Amid an increasingly bitter war and an impending famine in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, there is still, perhaps, one issue that unites Ethiopians, no matter their political views: …
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16 OCT 2021 My grandfather was born before the Wright brothers first took to the air, and men had landed on the moon within his lifetime. I started studying mathematics at school using a slide-rule and log tables, and we are now entering an age of artificial intelligence and robotics. …
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15 OCT 2021 As winter looms and hospitals across the US continue to be deluged with severe cases of COVID-19, flu season presents a particularly ominous threat this year. We are researchers with expertise in vaccination policy and mathematical modeling of infectious disease. Our group, the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, has been …
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14 OCT 2021 Shipping consultancy Drewry has repeatedly upped its estimates for total ocean carrier earnings this year, and its latest number is staggering. Record-setting congestion and consumer demand have driven freight rates ever higher, and profits have followed suit: Drewry says that it now predicts that the liner industry …
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