The age of sail is returning to the world's oceans, except this time the vessels don't carry any sailors, use artificial intelligence to track ships and can even launch missiles.

Compared with environmental concerns like our rapidly warming climate and the proliferation of microplastics, the accumulation of debris in low Earth orbit may seem like a distant issue. But the ...

Ships harnessed winds as the primary means of propulsion for many centuries before steam engines took center stage in the 1800s; it's quite poetic how maritime travel was greenhouse gas-free long ...

Shipping is not a clean business. The global economy is fueled by trade, and much of that trade involves hauling product from point A to point B. A great deal of that product goes by water. Shipping ...

Maxis are carrying carbon-fiber sails that outperform every other miracle fabric used before. By Kimball Livingston The first time a raceboat showed up with black sails, pushback was swift and severe.

The purpose of a sail on a boat, obviously, is to catch the wind and propel it forward. This was how all naval vessels were propelled before solutions like steam engines became commonplace. Perhaps ...

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a challenge each transportation sector is working to solve in various ways, and the marine shipping industry is no exception. Greenhouse gas emissions released by ...

The idea of using sails to power a boat is not exactly a new one; indeed, the earliest known depiction of a ship under sail appears on a painted disc found in Kuwait, dated back to somewhere between 5 ...

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