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As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is... →
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and... →
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS... →
I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest... →
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the... →
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage... →
It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's... →
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its... →
My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition... →
Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the... →
Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses may have to give several... →
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez... →
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head... →
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