Can Global Shipping Go Zero Carbon?

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Today on The Indicator, we present Short Wave, NPR's new daily science podcast hosted by Maddie Sofia. Because science, as with everything else, always comes back to economics!

A lot of the stuff we buy comes via ship, using a particularly dirty kind of fuel. Now a big shipping firm says it wants to go carbon neutral. Short Wave looks at how some old tech might play a role.

Follow Short Wave host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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