Marine

Baltic Dry Index Collapses To Historic Low

Coal ship unloading. Eric Kilby/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Feb. 15, 2015 (World News Trust) -- The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) -- a measure of commodity shipping costs -- fell to an historic low. China has cut coal imports and a record-number of ships are competing for business. The BDI dropped to 530 Friday, 24 points below a previous record in July and August, 1986, the Baltic exchange reported. The Londo ...

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The Mariner's Rule | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJan. 21, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern indust ...

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Captain Erikson's Equation | John Michael Greer

Captain Gustaf EriksonMarch 26, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- I have yet to hear anyone in the peak oil blogosphere mention the name of Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Åland Islands and his fleet of windj ...

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New York City floods as Sandy slams into eastern U.S. | Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman

The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it come ...

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Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan

Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it w ...

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It Sucks to be You! | David Glenn Cox

SS William G. Mather David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 17, 2012 It has been a strange weekend; fabulous, interesting, maudlin, magnificent and informative. Sometimes, even though you already ...

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Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP

The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of car ...

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Cold War in Warm Waters: US-China's Dangerous Contest for Asia-Pacific | Ramzy Baroud

South China Sea. Source: Demis Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 22, 2012 -- On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s p ...

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Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- PA ...

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Blowing Green Smoke (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust -- Apr. 4, 2011 "We also have Secretary Steven Chu, my Energy Secretary. Where is Steven? There he is over there." --President Obama at Georgetown U last wee ...

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