Countries With Poor Marine Safety Records Linked to Oil Spill Vessels
More than half of ships involved in the 100 largest oil spills of the past three decades were registered in states that consistently fail to comply with international safety and environmental standards, researchers have determined.
Inside Pakistan’s Untapped Fishing Industry
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Pakistan, nearly 400 million gallons per day of untreated waste from Karachi goes into the sea, making a fisherman’s job an extremely dirty one.
Seismic Speed Bumps Found in Chile’s Earthquake Zone
Two blobs of dense rock jammed deep beneath Chile’s coastline acted like seismic speed bumps during the magnitude-8.8 Maule earthquake in 2010, according to a new study.