Vanuatu Has One Of The World’s Strictest Plastic Bans. It’s About To Get Tougher.
Vanuatu banned single-use plastic bags, drinking straws and styrofoam food containers last July in a dramatic attempt to stem the...
Investing in Our Knowledge Base: The World’s First International Research Conference on Carbon Pricing
The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) organized the world’s first international research conference on carbon pricing—the CPLC Research Conference—in New...
Experts: Hydrogen vehicles next big thing in energy
nternational experts have told a forum in Rotorua if the government is serious about achieving a low-emissions economy, hydrogen must...
Fears mount as ship still lodged on Solomons reef
A ship that's leaking oil into the sea off Rennell, in Solomon Islands, could be the largest man-made environmental disaster...
CNMI prepares for Typhoon Wutip
Disaster authorities in the Northern Marianas are urging residents to prepare for Typhoon Wutip, which is expected to make its...
Wärtsilä to deliver world’s first hybrid retrofit for short-sea shipping vessel
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has signed an agreement with Hagland Shipping for a hybrid retrofit installation. The project will take place...
All American Marine launches hybrid catamaran
Bellingham, Washington-based shipbuilder All American Marine has built and launched the Waterman catamaran for Kitsap Transit of Seattle. Read more...
ABB to power Iceland’s first electrified ferry
Technology leader ABB is to supply drive and energy storage technology for Iceland’s first electrified ferry, a 70m vessel that...
Revealed: How a UK company is using a Caribbean tax haven to cash in on scrapping toxic ships in one of the world’s poorest countries
Lucrative ship-scrapping trade sees poor Bangladeshi workers face ‘abhorrent conditions with abysmal environmental protections’. New figures from the NGO Shipbreaking...
Villagers in Solomons say stranded ship spilling oil
Villagers on Rennell Island in Solomon Islands claim that a ship that grounded on a reef in Kangava Bay two...
American Samoa ferry saved from sinking
A ship belonging to the American Samoa government has taken on water while docked in Fagatogo but authorities have managed...
Hull of stranded Solomons ship breached
Water has breached the hull of a ship which ran aground off the southern coast of the Solomon Islands.