Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I… — Rose George Copy Share
The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the… — Rose George Copy Share
Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family. — Rose George Copy Share
“Mr. Wang had found my interest in fen, the Mandarin word for excrement, peculiar. Nonetheless, he tried to be helpful. He would point out… — Rose George Copy Share
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon. — Rose George Copy Share
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a… — Rose George Copy Share
Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped. — Rose George Copy Share
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because… — Rose George Copy Share
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers… — Rose George Copy Share
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization:… — Rose George Copy Share
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by… — Rose George Copy Share
My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social… — Rose George Copy Share
I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed… — Rose George Copy Share
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of… — Rose George Copy Share
I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no… — Rose George Copy Share
