The world's first hybrid powered cruise ship just got one step closer to launching on her maiden voyage!
Hurtigruten 's MS Roald Amundsen, expected to make her debut in spring, successfully completed her first sea trials this week.The expedition ship, which uses green technology such as battery packs and a specially designed ice-strengthened hull, took to the waters in the fjords along the western coast of Norway.
Posted on - 2019-03-10The online marketplace says 98% of its fossil fuel footprint comes from getting packages to your door. Etsy, which said it’s been calculating its emissions since 2013, said buyers and sellers on its website generated 135,459 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents from shipping last year, or about 98 percent of the company’s entire carbon footprint. That’s the same amount of emissions from the electricity used to power more than 23,000 homes for one year.
Posted on - 2019-03-10The Solomon Islands caretaker Prime Minister Rick Hou says the government is looking again at the lease for bauxite mining operator, APID and its associate BinTan Mining Solomon Islands
Posted on - 2019-03-08