Unofficial election results from the Marshall Islands show that the balance of power has shifted from President Hilda Heine's government to the Opposition.
The Opposition now appears to have an outright majority of 17, and possibly more as the country awaits the announcement of complete unofficial vote tabulation results.
Posted on - 2019-11-26The nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands is having a lingering effect on the handing down of the country's oral history.An investigation by the Los Angeles Times has examined the high rates of thyroid cancers in the Marshall Islands, where the US detonated dozens of nuclear weapons in the 1940s and '50s.
Posted on - 2019-11-26Flettner rotors are vertical cylinders which spin and develop lift due to the Magnus effect as the wind blows across them. Flettner rotors must be mechanically driven to develop lift and propulsion power, and maneuverability is restricted by wind speed and direction. Working on a ship, the force created will generate thrust. On board vessels, such rotor propulsion are often called Flettner rotors after the German innovator who was the first to install such a system on board a ship at the beginning of the 1920s. Flettner rotors may reduce the energy consumption of a ship, but they cannot be used as main propulsion.
Posted on - 2019-11-26