Today on The Indicator, we present Short Wave, NPR’s new daily science podcast hosted by Maddie Sofia. Because science, as with everything else, always comes back to economics!
A lot of the stuff we buy comes via ship, using a particularly dirty kind of fuel. Now a big shipping firm says it wants to go carbon neutral. Short Wave looks at how some old tech might play a role.
Follow Short Wave host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.
As Arctic Ice Vanishes, New Shipping Routes Open
As global warming melts sea ice across the Arctic, shipping routes once thought impossible — including directly over the North Pole — may open up by midcentury. But high costs may keep the new routes from being used right away.
.. Even direct over-the-pole routes would potentially be navigable, at least during some part of the summer-fall shipping season.