Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by a host of environmental stressors from human activities. Among the most insidious and impactful of these is invasion by non-native species. Ballast tanks of ...

There are few other topics gathering more attention than ballast water exchange, as the chorus of environmental damage from the scientific community and howls of reform from the legislative community ...

Image courtesy SciencoFAST InTank Bulk Chemical and DeChlor Modules. Photo courtesy SciencoFAST InTank Dosing Module and Circulation Pump. Photo courtesy SciencoFAST Rudy Mes and Giles Candy of ...

Ships have always required ballast to operate successfully and safely. For millennia, ships carried solid ballast in the form of rocks, sand, roof tiles, and many other heavy materials. From the 1880s ...

Ships constantly accumulate oily water in their engine rooms and cargo tanks, and getting rid of it safely is a surprisingly ...

The main reason why ships pump water out from the sides is because of ballasting operations. Ballasting is a very important aspect of a ship's ability to maintain stability and safe handling at sea.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new ballast water regulations that exempt existing Great Lakes ships from having to install onboard treatment. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the EPA ...

The following is a press release from the Ruth Lake Community Services District and the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District: The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District (HBMWD) and the Ruth Lake ...

Through a lot of expensive and dangerous trial-and-error over multiple centuries -- sometimes resulting in shipwrecks you still can explore today-- humans have pretty ...

Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by a host of environmental stressors from human activities. Among the most insidious and impactful of these is invasion by non-native species. Over the past two ...