Vessels continue to pollute the world’s oceans with oily wastewater. A DW investigation shows how seafarers circumvent environmental laws to save time and money, with devastating effects.
Investigation by: Naomi Conrad, Max Bernhard, Julia Bayer, Nina Werkhäuser Video by: Christian Caurla 3D animations by: Martyna Marciniak Supervising editors: Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer
Joint collaboration with Lighthouse reports and IRPI, Expresso, El Diario, BIRN, Libertatae, Trow, The Guardian & Jutarnji List We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate.
But it doesn’t need to be this way – Just Stop Oil
We have to ask why are humans so slow to change any of this toxic behaviour.
The answer is because none of this gets the frontpage coverage in newspapers on mainstream news that it deserves.
Instead of stories like this our newspapers are full of headlines about refugees and political spin, why do we all care so little about long term effects of Oil Pollution.
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Looking at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday they take a global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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