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Fire 'stabilized' on cargo ship spewing toxic gas off Canada
The Canadian Coast Guard said Sunday that a fire spewing toxic gas from a container ship has been "stabilized" and that it now planned to deploy firefighters to the vessel to quell the rest of the blaze. The Zim Kingston ...
- October 26, 2021
Danish fishermen hope to keep access to British waters in Brexit deal
In Thyboron, a port in western Denmark, the sky is grey and overcast and fishermen look just as gloomy as soon as the word Brexit is mentioned. Almost all of the 2,000 people who live here know a fisherman whose livelihood ...
- November 10, 2020
15 perish, 19 missing after Indonesian wooden boat sinks off Sulawesi coast
At least 15 people were killed and 19 more were missing on Monday after a wooden boat sank off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, search and rescue officials said. The boat sank with 40 people onboard just after ...
- July 25, 2023
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Fishermen stand in a boat as they inspect thousands of dead fish floating by the bank of the Amshan river, which draws its water from the Tigris, in Iraq's southeastern Maysan governance on Monday.
- July 5, 2023
Amazon could be gone in 50 years as it crosses threshold
The Amazon rain forest is nearing a threshold which, once crossed, would see one of the world’s largest and richest ecosystems morph into arid savannah within half-a-century, scientists said Tuesday. Another major ecosystem, ...
- March 13, 2020
US, Vietnam warn China on SCS
The United States and Vietnam warned on Monday against the “threat or use of force” in the disputed South China Sea, days after the latest clash involving Chinese vessels. President Joe Biden and Vietnam’s Communist Party ...
- September 12, 2023
'Aquaman' warns Sundance of perils of deep-sea mining
He is best known as hunky, sea-dwelling superhero “Aquaman,” but actor Jason Momoa brought a stark and sober warning about the perils of deep-sea mining to the Sundance film festival on Friday. The Hawaiian-born A-lister ...
- January 22, 2023
PH, 60 countries sign treaty protecting high seas
The Philippines joined over 60 other countries at the United Nations in signing the first-ever treaty on protecting the international high seas, raising hopes that it will come into force soon and protect threatened ...
- September 22, 2023