China Shipbuilding Industry

China Shipbuilding Industry

YANTAI, CHINA - AUGUST 21, 2025 - Semi-submersible vessels are preparing to transport large container ship hulls in sections to the final assembly base at Hanwha Marine Shipyard in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on August 21, 2025.

China Shipbuilding Industry

China Shipbuilding Industry

YANTAI, CHINA - AUGUST 21, 2025 - Semi-submersible vessels are preparing to transport large container ship hulls in sections to the final assembly base at Hanwha Marine Shipyard in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on August 21, 2025.

China Shipbuilding Industry

China Shipbuilding Industry

YANTAI, CHINA - AUGUST 21, 2025 - Semi-submersible vessels are preparing to transport large container ship hulls in sections to the final assembly base at Hanwha Marine Shipyard in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on August 21, 2025.

China Shipbuilding Industry

China Shipbuilding Industry

YANTAI, CHINA - AUGUST 21, 2025 - Semi-submersible vessels are preparing to transport large container ship hulls in sections to the final assembly base at Hanwha Marine Shipyard in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on August 21, 2025.

China Shipbuilding Industry

China Shipbuilding Industry

YANTAI, CHINA - AUGUST 21, 2025 - Semi-submersible vessels are preparing to transport large container ship hulls in sections to the final assembly base at Hanwha Marine Shipyard in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on August 21, 2025.

China Shipbuilding Industry

China Shipbuilding Industry

YANTAI, CHINA - AUGUST 21, 2025 - Semi-submersible vessels are preparing to transport large container ship hulls in sections to the final assembly base at Hanwha Marine Shipyard in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on August 21, 2025.

China Shipbuilding Industry

China Shipbuilding Industry

YANTAI, CHINA - AUGUST 21, 2025 - Semi-submersible vessels are preparing to transport large container ship hulls in sections to the final assembly base at Hanwha Marine Shipyard in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on August 21, 2025.

Pencils made from cacao hulls

Pencils made from cacao hulls

Photo taken in Tokyo on May 2, 2025, shows pencils made from cacao hulls. The pencils were developed by Japan's Mitsubishi Pencil Co. and Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Cloudy under the "Chocopen" project aimed at making the effective use of huge amounts of discarded cacao hulls in Ghana, western Africa.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

Shipbuilding Base in Lianyungang

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - OCTOBER 29, 2024 - Workers are producing ship hulls at Tuangang Community Shipbuilding base in Yanweigang town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Oct 29, 2024.

Beninese entrepreneur produces eco-charcoal to fight against deforestation

STORY: Beninese entrepreneur produces eco-charcoal to fight against deforestation DATELINE: April 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: ABOMEY-CALAVI, Benin CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Roland Adjovi preparing raw material for the production of eco-charcoal 2. various of workers transforming raw material into eco-charcoal 3. various of Roland Adjovi and his workers cutting charcoal into briquettes 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): ROLAND ADJOVI, Producer of ecological charcoal 5. various of eco-charcoal 6. various of workers transporting eco-charcoal 7. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): VERONIQUE OGBOGU, Customer of the ecological charcoal 8. various of eco-charcoal STORYLINE: Ecological charcoal is emerging as an effective solution to fight against deforestation in the West African country of Benin, said Roland Adjovi, an entrepreneur in Abomey-Calavi, a city in southern Benin. "We transform plant waste, such as cassava peelings, rice hulls, coconut shells, and all kinds of leaves into an ecological charcoal,

Rice stalk has many empty hulls due to effects of A-bomb radiation exposure

Rice stalk has many empty hulls due to effects of A-bomb radiation exposure

An illuminated rice stalk is found to have many empty hulls, as pictured on Oct. 20, 2015, because it was grown from seeds deriving from those collected in Nagasaki in 1945 after the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city. It shows the lingering effects of radiation causing chromosomal aberration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

(3)Kyoto protocol to prevent global warming goes into effect

(3)Kyoto protocol to prevent global warming goes into effect

TOKYO, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. plans to buy carbon dioxide emission-reduction credits by constructing an electric power plant in Thailand that will use rice hulls as fuel. The photo shows a similar type of facility under construction. Photo from Chubu Electric Power. (Kyodo)

Threshing with a basket and a mortar

Threshing with a basket and a mortar

This is a scene of harvesting. A man pounds rice with a vertical pestle in a wooden mill. The rice hulls are removed to make brown rice which is then passed through a winnowing device to remove foreign objects. The woman is creating air flow to blow away the foreign objects.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐5‐0]