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The navy said it had begun an operation to send the aircraft carrier São Paulo to the bottom.

Brazilian Navys former flagship, the French-built aircraft carrier Sao Paulo, is somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with no port to welcome her after being decommissioned. The old hull, full of asbestos, paint, and other toxic waste, has been anchored 315 kilometers off the Brazilian coast, to prevent drifting, but the possibility that it might sink has not been ruled out. It would be a major environmental disaster, it was reported.

Scotland's environmental watchdog had feared that the three rigs would be dumped on an Indian beach.

Ships are being recycled all over the world, but is the current process more harmful to the environment than operating a conventional diesel vessel?

A worker lost his life while scrapping BW Offshore's Cidade de Sao Vicente FPSO at an Indian beaching yard on April 21.

NAIMUL KARIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on progress to clean-up the ship-breaking industry...

The shipyard industry in Bangladesh is evolving to come in line with new regulations designed to improve worker safety and environmental protection

When Samrat Hossain first started cutting up old ships weighing thousands of tonnes in a southeast Bangladesh shipbreaking yard a decade ago…

"Some workers from other yards told me they buy their own gloves." The industry in Bangladesh is evolving to come in line with new regulations, officials say. The government, through a parliamentary act in 2018, ordered yard-owners to clean up their practices by 2023 and implement standards laid down in the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.

When Samrat Hossain first started cutting up old ships weighing thousands of tons in a southeast Bangladesh shipbreaking yard a decade ago, all he would wear was a cap or a helmet.