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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Inspired by the Japanese concept of sato-umi —the convergence of land and sea where human and marine life can harmoniously coexist—Honda has established the Honda Marine Science Foundation , a new initiative to address marine ecosystem restoration and the impact of humans and climate change on oceans and intertidal areas.

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Mariner Honda Long Beach Climate Change 150

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APRIL 4, 2022

A study by three French institutes—Ifremer, the University of Bordeaux and the IRD (a public research institution)—has found that the surface water of the Atlantic Ocean is twice as polluted by cellulose fibers as it is by microplastics. There’s a pile of information doing the rounds about the pollution of the oceans.

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Pollution Water Iceland Mariner 445

Innovation News Network

JULY 8, 2022

An international research team, including Lancaster University, has revealed a list of 15 issues and the potential impact they could have on marine and coastal biodiversity. The post Scientists examine issues that impact marine and coastal biodiversity appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

Air pollution—specifically PM 2.5 , ozone and NO 2 —could be to blame for up to 33 million emergency asthma attack visits to hospital a year, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Approximately 95% of the world’s population lives in places with unsafe air.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, finds that the discharge water from ships’ exhaust gas treatment systems—i.e., For many years, we’ve flagged the fact that scrubbers account for disproportionately large emissions of hazardous and acidifying substances into the marine environment.

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Exhaust Emissions Mariner Gas 170

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, has estimated that photosynthetic marine cyanobacteria annually produce hundreds of millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons in the oceans. Oil spills cause widespread damage, but some parts of the marine environment recover faster than others.

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Mariner Oil MIT Environment 150

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MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. Michael Diamond/University of Washington.

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APRIL 12, 2021

A team of scientists from Heriot-Watt University has found the waters in the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) are teeming with oil-eating bacteria. Creating microbial observatories in other ocean regions at potential risk of pollution and climate change effects, such as the Arctic, is one of our goals, said Gutierrez. Angelina G.

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Oil Water Mariner Climate Change 225

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JUNE 15, 2013

The second ( DTMA-91-R-2013-0009 ) will award up to $500,000 for a comprehensive study on the issues associated with the bunkering (supplying a ship with fuel) of LNG for marine vessels. Of particular interest to MARAD is the use of natural gas (LNG or CNG) as a marine propulsion fuel. Infrastructure LNG Natural Gas Ports and Marine'

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Mariner Emissions Alternative Fuels Gas 170

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JULY 2, 2013

University of Delaware researchers have identified an algae— Heterosigma akashiwo —that grows rapidly on a gas mixture that has the same carbon dioxide and nitric oxide (NO) content as emissions released from a power plant. The algae thrive on the gas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

When airborne particles (green) form before PAHs adhere, both the pollutants and particles dissipate quickly, as shown in the top row. But when the particles form in the presence of pollutants, which is what likely happens in nature, the longer-lasting particles enable the long-range transport of the pollutants (bottom).

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Pollution Transportation Range Escape 244

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JUNE 17, 2016

This summer dozens of scientists from State and federal agencies and universities are using four different aircraft with more than 200 flight hours, balloons that measure ozone aloft, and a laser-based instrument that measures ozone above the ground up to 12,000 feet, to investigate ozone which enters California from the Pacific Ocean.

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San Jose Ozone Universal Transportation 150

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Annual average concentrations of fine particulates from US sources of combustion emissions from (a) electric power generation; (b) industry; (c) commercial and residential sources; (d) road transportation; (e) marine transportation; (f) rail transportation; (g) sum of all combustion sources; (h) all sources. Source: MIT. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels. This is about 7-8% of the global health burden caused by air pollution.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The hot, humid environment of tropical marine areas such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can wreak havoc on the marine autonomous systems. Underwater and surface MAS are used for marine monitoring, locating objects such as mines on the seafloor, and rescuing swimmers.

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Water Mariner Australia Engine 99

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JANUARY 23, 2015

A new research collaboration between A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Sembcorp Marine Ltd, University of Glasgow and University of Glasgow Singapore (UGS) aims to improve make a ship’s hydrodynamics and energy efficiency. Copyright: A*STAR. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 23, 2021

Synthetic fuels for passenger vehicles, commercial trucks or even marine applications could play an important role in achieving a near-zero emissions mobility, by using renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, to create a closed CO 2 cycle when viewed from a holistic “well-to-wheel” perspective.

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JULY 9, 2009

Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year.

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Mariner 2012 Emissions Fuel 150

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JUNE 25, 2014

The Chesapeake Bay prediction is based on models developed by NOAA­-sponsored researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, University of Michigan, and again relies on nutrient loading estimates from USGS. Later this year, researchers will measure oxygen levels in both bodies of water.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.

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Oil Gas Chevron Houston 221

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MAY 26, 2016

and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. At full build out, Pasha will be the world’s first marine terminal able to generate all of its energy needs from renewable sources.

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Los Angeles California Emissions Green 150

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The team showed that the effect of aerosols on the climate since industrialisation depends strongly on what the atmosphere was like before pollution, when aerosols were produced only from natural emissions. The finding could further complicate attempts to model climate change. —Carslaw et al.

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Climate Emissions Climate Change Pollution 220

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

With maritime transport estimated to emit approximately 940 million tons of CO 2 annually, there is increased pressure for the shipping industry to deploy means of reducing harmful pollutants. The Elektra project is being led by the Department of Design and Operation of Maritime Systems of the Technical University in Berlin.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

New research by a team from the US, China and Japan focusing on the Houston, Texas area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. ““The very existence of the Houston area favors stagnation.”

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Montana State University. Murray State University. University of Southern Mississippi. Emergent Polymer Sensing Technologies for Gulf Coast Water Quality Monitoring This collaboration between Mississippi and Alabama develops advanced polymer-based sensing technologies to detect pollutants in Gulf Coast aquatic ecosystems.

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Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy 150

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JUNE 30, 2011

These plans will reduce pollution to the level required by the health-based 1997 PM 2.5 However, these areas continue to be two of the most polluted air basins in the nation. Diesel mobile sources such as trucks, construction equipment and marine vessels are the largest source of PM 2.5 standard (NAAQS) by 2015. in California.

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EPA California Emissions Transportation 220

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MAY 6, 2010

A study by researchers from the University of Oklahoma and the US Naval Research Laboratory has found that biodiesel is easily susceptible to biological degradation by anaerobic bacteria. (b, c, and d) Coupons in biodiesel, at the biodiesel/seawater interface, and in seawater, respectively. Credit: ACS, Aktas et al. Click to enlarge.

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Mariner Oklahoma Oil Environment 287

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JUNE 17, 2014

Researchers at Washington State University, with colleagues at Kyung Hee University and Boeing Commercial Airplanes, have been developing liquid hydrocarbon/oxygenated hydrocarbon-fueled solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) for aviation (the “more electric” airplane) and other transportation applications, such as in cars. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 14, 2009

Veron of the Center for Marine Studies, University of Queensland. In addition to temperature-induced bleaching, coral reefs in many parts of the world are under stress from overfishing, destructive fishing, coastal pollution, and sedimentation.

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CO2 Mariner Climate Change London 170

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The researchers determined the global warming potential, expressed in carbon dioxide equivalents (t e CO 2 ), for seven components of urban inventories: electricity, heating and industrial fuels, industrial processes, ground transportation, aviation, marine, and waste. Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Members of REVI will include San Diego County; the Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, Escondido, San Diego, and Solana Beach; and three regional public agencies including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, and the San Diego Unified Port District.

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MARCH 4, 2013

A new analysis by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) suggests that, notwithstanding significant uncertainties, previous studies have underestimated the contributions from installation and use phases—e.g., Credit: ACS, Arvesen et al. Click to enlarge. NO x , SO 2 and particulates).

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MARCH 24, 2010

Researchers from Nihon University in Japan have reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy plastic paint used to seal the hulls of ships.

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San Francisco Mariner Waste Hawaii 231

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

A multi-year quantitative study of the influence of ship emissions on urban air quality by a team from Fudan University found that ships could contribute 20–30% (2–7 μg/m 3 ) of the total PM 2.5 This may have caused substantial atmospheric pollution and worsened the current air-pollution situation in megacity Shanghai.

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Emissions Wind Pollution China 150

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Dr. Kenneth H.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Nitrate output columns represent mean values and the 80% credible intervals from modeling. Click to enlarge.

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Mississippi Mexico 2007 Wisconsin 255

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. Tamalpais, in Marin County. One site was on Mt. —John Christensen.

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