In August, we posted about an extreme drought in Europe that dramatically reduced water levels in major rivers, including the Rhine, Elbe, Loire, Danube, and Po. Now a near-record drought in the US Midwest has dropped water levels in the Mississippi and tributary rivers causing barges to run aground, disrupting river travel for shippers, recreational boaters, and even passengers on a cruise line.
The Coast Guard has imposed new loading restrictions on ships and barges on the rivers. The price of shipping goods along the river skyrocketed. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began emergency dredging to deepen the river at more than a dozen key choke points, where a backup of about 2,000 barges has built up.
Two hundred and seventeen years ago today, in 1805, the Royal Navy, commanded by 
The world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, a replica of an 18th-century Swedish East India Company ship, 
In March, 
On Sept. 30, two fishermen, Jacob Runyan, 42, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pa., participated in the 
In 2020, we posted that China Merchants Group had signed a contract with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) for 
Over the last five years, a macabre mystery has been playing out on the South African coast. The carcasses of great white sharks have been washing ashore on local beaches with their bellies ripped open and their livers missing. What had killed the sharks was unclear, although scientists suspected orcas, also known as killer whales, which had been observed in the area.
We have been 
Former-professional rugby player Damian Browne became the first person ever to row from New York to Galway. Browne began the 112-day voyage, titled Project Empower, from Chelsea Piers in Manhattan on Tuesday, June 14 at 3.10am.