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World's Largest Iceberg Drifts Slowly Towards South Georgia

Published Jan 23, 2025 6:30 PM by The Maritime Executive

The world's largest iceberg is slowing heading towards the island of South Georgia, where it may have serious affects on local...

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Feasibility Studies ID Technology to Address Fugitive Methane Emissions

Published Jan 21, 2025 7:43 PM by The Maritime Executive

  An industry collaboration known as the Safetytech Accelerate reports its latest round of supported feasibility studies h...

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Svalbard's Glaciers Have Lost an Area the Size of Manhattan Into the Sea

Published Jan 19, 2025 8:15 PM by The Conversation

  [By Tian Li, Jonathan Bamber and Konrad Heidler] The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster&n...

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Solvang LPG Tanker Ready to Launch New Onboard Carbon Capture Pilot

Published Jan 17, 2025 4:49 PM by The Maritime Executive

A pilot project involving Wärtsilä, MAN Energy Solutions, and the research institute SINTEF and working with Norwegian...

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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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