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By Jo Nova The evil shipping smoke was shielding us from global warming… You’ll never guess but it’s worse than we thought, and we are more to blame than we thought, kiss my government grant and pray to...

By Jo Nova Will EV’s cause more damage to the environment? A freighter with nearly 3,000 cars on board is burning off the Netherlands. The Coastguard is working hard to try to stop the freighter sinking in a delicate...

“The question is no longer if people will starve to death because of IMO decarbonization targets. The question is how many?”

As a result of continuously decreasing in-state oil production, California has increased imported crude oil from foreign countries from 5 percent in 1992 to 58 percent today of total consumption.

While the world rushes against time to curb carbon emissions from cars, trains and airplanes, another area of transport raises concerns. Today, almost  90% of all goods traded globally are transported by water. As massive...

By Steve Goreham Originally published in TheT&D. Occasionally a report appears which claims to be wisdom, but after careful analysis, offers solutions that don’t make much sense. Such a report was issued earlier this...

With the nearly constant conversation about zero waste and minimization in general, single use packaging is a hot topic. For many consumables, customers don’t seem to have many options in avoiding packaging waste. Think...

Dubai Design Week — an annual event celebrating and promoting design and creativity — took place earlier this month, with imaginative minds from all over the world competing for the coveted Progress Prize at the Global...

Narwhals, or the "unicorns of the sea," could be at risk from additional Arctic shipping routes as polar ice continues to recede. A peer-reviewed study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests...

Shipping was the sole industry excluded from the 2015 Paris Agreement, even though the sector's annual carbon emissions are higher than those of Germany — and countries now plan to address that...

Logistics may not be the most exciting application of autonomous vehicles, but it's definitely one of the most important. And the marine shipping industry — one of the oldest industries in the world, you can imagine —...

Two Norwegian shipping giants, Wilhelmsen and Kongsberg, have joined together to create what they've described as the world's first autonomous shipping company. "As a world-leading maritime nation, Norway has taken a position...

The International Maritime Organization has just signed off on an International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters, more simply known as the Polar Code...

Global warming has cleared away the ice that plagued potential Arctic shipping routes, opening them up for speedier and more reliable trade. But without ice to act as a breakwater, huge swells are developing, making the shipping...

Shipping container homes aren't exactly unique—they've been used as dwellings all over the world for decades—but they're gaining popularity across the USA and causing quite a stir in this established DC neighborhood...