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Greenpeace Activists Climb Shell Gas Platform in the North Sea

Published Aug 15, 2025 3:01 PM by The Maritime Executive

Activists from Greenpeace staged another demonstration this time to call attention to their demands for taxes on the fossil fuel...

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Study: Hawaii's False Killer Whales Could be Heading for Extinction

Published Aug 14, 2025 7:19 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The Hawaiian population of the false killer whale is trending towards extinction, according to a new study in the journa...

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Wasaline Will Launch Baltic’s First Carbon-Neutral Shipping Corridor

Published Aug 12, 2025 7:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

Finland’s Wasaline will start operating the first carbon-neutral shipping route in the Baltic, achieving the company&rsquo...

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Study: Chagos Marine Protected Area Shows Value of Extra-Large MPAs

Published Aug 11, 2025 9:16 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The ongoing global effort to protect at least 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030 have sparked renewed intere...

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German Divers Begin Testing Retrieval System for Seabed Ordnance

Published Aug 7, 2025 6:44 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Sponsored by a German government environmental program, a Baltic Sea diving and salvage company has begun an extended tr...

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NGOs Call for IMO Action on an Arctic HFO Ban

Published Jul 31, 2025 10:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

  As shipping activity heats up in the Arctic, environmental advocates are encouraging the IMO to take action on the conti...

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Sri Lanka Seeks Compensation as Debris From MSC Elsa 3 Washes Ashore

Published Jul 30, 2025 1:45 PM by The Maritime Executive

Sri Lanka’s Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) confirmed that it has begun negotiations with MSC Mediterranean...

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Major Earthquake Off Kamchatka Prompts Tsunami Warnings Around the Pacific

Published Jul 29, 2025 10:16 PM by The Maritime Executive

  A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake shook the seabed off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the early hours of Wednesday morning,...

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Greenpeace Calls for MSC to Pay for Sunken Boxship's Cleanup

Published Jul 29, 2025 8:27 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Greenpeace India is demanding more action from Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in the wake of the sinking of the&nb...

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Op-Ed: Shipping Emissions are Rising Despite Industry Commitments

Published Jul 21, 2025 4:54 PM by Rob Mortimer

  The latest emissions data confirms what many of us feared: container shipping has just recorded its worst environmental...

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