We seem to be seeing a lot of these stories anymore: A Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with 36,000 tonnes of wheat bound for Iran was hijacked on Tuesday by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, near the Yemeni coast. The latest example of piracy came as a Saudi supertanker, seized by pirates on Monday […]
I am amazed this story isn’t getting more play in the U.S. For years Sony BMG has gone after music downloaders and now it turns out they are the pirates: The story centres on French software developer, PointDev, which makes administrative tools for Windows. According to Ars Technica, the company recently received a call from […]
Mother Jones has started a new website dedicated to defending our oceans. Ocean Voyager promises this: Once a week for five weeks, you’ll receive an email invitation to a different ocean “hot spot” around the world. From chasing fish pirates off the coast of Africa to tracking a mother polar bear across the Arctic, you’ll […]