Readers’ Picks of the Week (8-12 of June)

The world’s first system to passively clean up plastic pollution from the world’s oceans is to be deployed in 2016, Boyan Slat, 20-year old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup announced at … Read more

The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) was born from one family’s need to reach out to people in distress and make a difference…. Read more

More than 90% of the reported attacks in Southeast Asia resulted in pirates successfully boarding target vessels, according to the latest analysis of pirate attacks in Southeast Asia carried… Read more

The Panama Canal has taken another important step toward the completion of the Expansion Program as it begins to fill the lower chamber of its new Atlantic locks…. Read more

An LPG tanker disappeared in the South China Sea after issuing a distress signal some 200 miles off Vietnam on June 10, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency reports…. Read more