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UK Launches Next Clean Maritime Competition with $37M in Funding

Published Jan 16, 2025 7:37 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The UK government has begun the sixth round of its Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition promising to provide a total...

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Ukraine Claims Russia is Coercing "Volunteers" Into Spill Cleanup Effort

Published Jan 15, 2025 10:32 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The Ukrainian government claims that Russian authorities are drafting students in occupied areas to join the cleanup eff...

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NOAA Withdraws Proposed Speed Rule for East Coast Whale Protection

Published Jan 15, 2025 3:15 PM by The Maritime Executive

  After two years of review, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has decided to drop a proposed spe...

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Startup Evolves Ocean Fertilization for Commercial Carbon Credits

Published Jan 14, 2025 1:55 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Ocean fertilization has the potential to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at low cost and vast scale, simply by...

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Faced With Public Pressure, Russia Steps Up Kerch Strait Cleanup

Published Jan 12, 2025 7:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

One month after two aging coastal tankers broke up near the Kerch Strait, their cargoes of heavy fuel oil continue to contaminate...

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Marine Science Nonprofit Elects "The Ocean" to Join its Board

Published Jan 12, 2025 4:37 PM by The Conversation

  [By Anna Turns] The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the atmosphere’s excess heat trapped by human-emit...

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Samskip and Value Maritime Win Funding for Compact Carbon-Capture System

Published Jan 10, 2025 9:21 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Value Maritime has secured funding from the Dutch government to install a new version of its carbon-capture technology a...

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2024's Extreme Ocean Heat Broke Records Again, Leaving Two Mysteries

Published Jan 10, 2025 12:56 PM by The Maritime Executive

  [By Prof. Annalisa Bracco] The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever...

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Op-Ed: U.S. Tariffs Won't Slow Down China's Clean-Energy Sector

Published Jan 9, 2025 1:11 PM by Dialogue Earth

  [By Lauri Myllyvirta and Hubert Thieriot] Clean energy technology, particularly the “new three” of solar...

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Due to COVID Disruption, Invasive Sea Lampreys Rebound in Great Lakes

Published Jan 7, 2025 10:55 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Fisheries officials in the Great Lakes have found a new and unusual aftereffect of the COVID-19 pandemic: a resurgence i...

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