CNN's Dan Rivers meets Rizwana Hasan, a lawyer fighting to clean up Bangladesh's ship-breaking industry.
North Korea has informed an international organization of plans to launch a satellite, the South Korean government told CNN Thursday.
Drive past a car accident, everybody slows down to look. Tell a toddler, "Don't touch that," and of course he or she does.
Government scientists want big ships to slow down near endangered right whales. CNN's Miles O'Brien reports.
Up until very recently, conventional wisdom held that shipping was a minor player in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. That all changed in October last year. Leaked details of a report by the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) got into the press, and revealed an uncomfortable truth about the shipping industry -- its emissions could be double the amount everyone previously believed.
The U.S. Coast Guard will soon begin enforcing new regulations to try to prevent ships from around the world from delivering unwanted and sometimes destructive cargo.
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