EU grants USD 5.6 million for two hydrogen-fueled ships
EU awarded 5 million euros to the European innovation project Flagships, to support construction of two commercially operated zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell vessels, one in Lyon, France and one in Stavanger, Norway. The funds have been granted from EU’s Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020, under…
This world’s biggest electric ferry runs between Sweden and Denmark 46 times per 24 hours.
The most recent episode of Fully Charged is about an electric ferry, which reportedly turns out to be the world’s biggest electric ship conversion. It entered service in November 2018. It’s equipped with a massive 4.1 MWh battery (640 packs) and 6 MW of power (four 1.5 MW propellers) with a…
How to talk to kids about climate change without scaring them
When my 4-year-old daughter discovered the documentary series Blue Planet II, thanks to a relative who shares her love of marine life, I was thrilled that she wanted to watch it instead of animated standbys like The Octonauts and Llama Llama. I counted it as a parenting victory: My preschooler…
Humans are driving one million species to extinction
Landmark United Nations-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems. Up to one million plant and animal species face extinction, many within decades, because of human activities, says the most comprehensive report yet on the state of global ecosystems….
IPBES: Climate Change Is a Key Driver for Species Extinction
UN Climate Change News, 7 May 2019 – Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, and climate change is amongst the five direct drivers of change in nature with the largest relative global impacts so far. This is one key finding of a…
Niagara Falls goes electric — US-built all-electric vessels coming to Maid of the Mist tour this year
Niagara Falls’ famous Maid of the Mist boat tour is getting the first two all-electric passenger vessels constructed in the US. The new zero-emission boats are expected to debut in mid-September this year. Upon the vessels entering service in September, the Maid of the Mist…
European Commission study backs three short-term measures to speed up shipping’s decarbonisation
Ahead of this month’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, a study commissioned by the European Commission has suggested there are just three ways the current fleet can meet 2030 CO2 emissions targets. The study, researched by…
The world’s fastest electric boat will be used in the aquaculture industry
Touching and overwhelming. This is how the entrepreneur Leif Stavøstrand describes the response to the plans to produce electric motors for boats. He left his job as head of the oil base in Florø last year, and has started the company Evoy with his father. –…
Recent Carbon Emissions Will Affect The Atmosphere For 10,000 Years, Steven Chu Says
Greenhouse-gas emitting is a lot like cigarette smoking, said former Energy Secretary Steven Chu: you can do it for decades before the cancer shows up, and then it’s very difficult to recover. The Nobel Prize winning physicist lamented in a University of Chicago lecture that “no one explains”…