Do cruise ships affect the ecosystem?
Cruise Ship Report Card
“Friends of the Earth’s Cruise Ship Report Card compares the environmental footprint of 16 major cruise lines and 185 cruise ships.”
Read the 2019 report and compare it to previous years.
Fraught with environmental baggage, the cruise industry is trying to go green, but is it enough?
This post from USA Today looks at how the cruise industry is trying to improve in the areas of carbon emissions, sewage treatment, fuel efficiency, and plastic recycling.
Cruise Travel: How to minimise your environmental impact
The more people ask the cruise lines about how they protect the environment, the more they will invest in protecting it. This travel blog offers practical tips on what to look for in a cruise vacation to minimize harmful impact on the environment and what questions you should be asking before you book a trip.
Just for Fun
Test your knowledge about cruise ships. The answers to the quiz questions below can be found in the articles and websites curated on this page.
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Come back next month to challenge yourself with new quiz questions.
Links:
Friends of the Earth website: https://foe.org/cruise-report-card/
Morgan Hines, “Fraught with environmental baggage, the cruise industry is trying to go green, but is it enough?” USA Today (blog), January 21, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/01/21/cruise-ship-environmental-impacts-how-industry-going-green/2844697001/
Lucy Dodsworth, “Cruise Travel: How to Minimise Your Environmental Impact” On The Luce travel blog, February 10, 2020, https://www.ontheluce.com/cruise-environmental-impact/