Why did the Morning Midas cargo ship, carrying 3,000 new vehicles to Mexico, sink off Alaska weeks after catching fire?A cargo ship named Morning Midas sank in the North Pacific Ocean. The ship was carrying around 3,000 new vehicles to Mexico. A fire broke o...
26 Jun, 2025, 09.00 AM IST
Morning Midas cargo ship carrying 3000 new EVs to Mexico sinks off Alaska weeks after catching fireMorning Midas, a cargo ship transporting around 3,000 new cars to Mexico, sank in the North Pacific. The ship caught fire near Alaska weeks...
25 Jun, 2025, 08.03 PM IST
Uncovering the dark money: How banks are funding fossil fuels in secretResearch by Tax Justice Network has revealed that trillions of dollars in bank finance for fossil fuel cos are being channeled through opaq...
12 Sep, 2024, 12.13 AM IST
"It's all happening again": The supply chain is under strainThe intensifying upheaval in shipping is prompting carriers to lift rates while raising the specter of waterborne gridlock that could again...
25 Jun, 2024, 10.23 AM IST
Viking sagas on combat and curiosityThe Romans saw the Vikings are barbarians and were eager to make them Christian, for they beleived their truth was the universal truth. The...
17 Feb, 2024, 12.02 AM IST
Ports in Europe lure investors into clean energy gateway planThe hydrogen plants located in Rotterdam would be linked to refineries at the port via a pipeline network which would be worth nearly €1.5 ...
05 Sep, 2023, 09.39 AM IST
Entrepreneurs are vying to fix one of fashion’s fossil-fuelled secretsDyeing clothes is very carbon intensive where a lot of hot water is used. Most countries which use this process of dyeing uses cheap coal a...
21 Aug, 2023, 09.41 AM IST
20 injured Indian crew members rescued from burning ship off the Dutch coast return homeA group of 20 injured Indian crew members rescued after a major fire broke out on board a cargo vessel carrying nearly 3,800 cars off the N...
04 Aug, 2023, 02.08 PM IST
Burning cargo ship off Dutch coast will be towed to a new location after flames and smoke subsidedFire erupted in the Fremantle Highway late Tuesday night near a chain of islands in the northern Netherlands and has been blazing ever sinc...
29 Jul, 2023, 04.03 PM IST
Satellite broadband services in India: Players and problemsFrom Elon Musk's SpaceX to Bharti's OneWeb to Jio to Amazon to Tata's Nelco, there are several players who are planning to launch satellite...
20 May, 2022, 11.35 PM IST
Mystery of a burning Ship (with cars)In the case of the ship Felicity Ace, thankfully, all 22 of its crew were evacuated this week after it caught fire. But according to the Po...
18 Feb, 2022, 11.38 PM IST
Sri Lanka facing marine disaster from burning ship: OfficialFishermen have been banned from an 80-kilometre (50-mile) stretch of coast near the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl as an internation...
29 May, 2021, 01.40 PM IST
Black waters: Oil spills pollute northeast Syria creeksOil pollution in Syria has been a growing concern since the 2011 onset of a civil war that has taken a toll on oil infrastructure and seen ...
23 Jul, 2020, 08.31 AM IST
Iran missile hit on own ship in exercise kills 19, wounds 15The Konarak, a Hendijan-class support ship, which was taking part in the exercise, was too close to a target during an exercise on Sunday w...
11 May, 2020, 02.31 PM IST
How Pusser’s rum became the official drink of the British Royal NavyThe drink, which first quenched the thirst of workers and planters, crossed the oceans to reach America and Europe.
14 Oct, 2018, 09.25 AM IST
What made Scotland agree to a merger with England 300 years ago? Prospects of growing rich in IndiaThe East India Company was then rapidly expanding its control in India and perhaps this persuaded Scottish leaders they needed their own co...
14 Sep, 2014, 12.49 PM IST
- Australia approves $30 bn coal gas projects
Australia on Friday approved two multi-billion dollar coal gas projects with strict environmental conditions, clearing the way for exports ...
22 Oct, 2010, 02.04 PM IST