During IMO’s webinar ”Future of Shipping: Decarbonisation”, Singapore’s Minister for Transport, Ong Ye Kung, highlighted the climate change problem, and the need for global collaboration.
During a virtual ceremony, REV Ocean and the World Maritime University (WMU) inked a new agreement on collaborating and finding solutions concerning ocean issues.
In the winters of 2018 and 2019, the Bering Sea sea ice cover hit record low not seen in thousands of years, a new study revealed on Wednesday, in line with global concerns about the accelerating impact of climate change in the Arctic.
A recent Reuters analysis of new shipping and fuel-consumption data revealed that melting sea ice enables ships sailing into the Arctic, resulting to increasing amounts of climate-warming pollution.
Nearly a fifth of the world’s entire ocean floor has now been mapped, experts say, as plans are progressing despite the challenges of COVID-19 crisis. Charting seabed aims to help understand the impact oceans have on the earth’s climate.
Maersk, Danish shipping container line, joins global research on weather patterns and climate change by committing its 300 owned vessels to participate in the global Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) program.
Port Authority of Valencia recently reaffirmed its commitment concerning tackling climate change, through the construction of electrical substation, as part of its green investment plan.
The COVID-19 crisis should serve as a call-to-action to “fundamentally rethink our relationship” with natural ecosystems and shrinking biodiversity, the UN cultural agency chief said on the occasion of World Environment Day.
Atmospheric CO2, measured at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, reached a seasonal peak of 417.1 parts per million for 2020 in May, the highest monthly reading ever recorded. This year’s peak was 2.4 ppm higher than the 2019 peak of 414.7 in May 2019.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the US National Weather Service, forecasts an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, running from June 1 through November 30. The outlook predicts a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and only a 10% chance of a below-normal season.
