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Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are... →
We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening... →
We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly over because we all go by plane these days, mostly.... →
Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.
Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding.
Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris.
All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that... →