Japanese port authorities will soon manufacture the world's fastest cargo vessel. The Techno Super Liner (TSL) is designed to be the ocean-going equivalent of the Bullet train

A wave generator devised by a Canadian marine engineer could bring relief to ships stranded due to heavy ice formation in winter

Only the combined study of all the proposed power projects on the Konkan coastal belt, will give the real picture of the possible impact on the environmental of these plants, says the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).

The 200-km-long Konkan coastline is expected to have around 15 thermal power plants, with a capacity of around 23,000MW.

MUMBAI: The menace of oil slicks, debris and tar balls washing up along the western coastline and onto beaches is acute in south Mumbai.

State environment secretary Valsa Nair- Singh said on Monday that the Colaba coast was the second-most-affected area after the August 7 collision of two ships, which led to an oil spill in the sea.

The navy and the Coast Guard carried out anti-pollution operations for the third consecutive day today to check and neutralise the oil spill caused due to a collision between two cargo ships off the Mumbai coast.

President Barack Obama planned to visit the US Gulf Coast on Sunday to assess the response to a massive oil slick that keeps growing and creeping toward American shores from Louisiana to Florida.

New regulations that will force the shipping industry to switch to cleaner fuel could snuff out nearly a quarter of European demand for fuel oil by 2015.

The package of measures will add to the woes of the dirtiest and least profitable oil product: sludgy, bottom of the barrel fuel oil left behind from refining more profitable motor fuels.