The Red Sea crisis has emerged as a critical flashpoint of the conflict in the Middle East, upending global trade and ...

Cargo ships don’t just carry oil, they run on it — an energy security risk. Can the world accelerate the shipping sector’s transition to alternative fuels?

For anyone in the import business, the economic risks from the war in the Middle East arrive by sea -- and that goes for everyone who buys their products, too. As the war rages into its third week, ...

A fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire has been extended, but maritime confrontations, vessel seizures, and selective closures in the Strait of Hormuz have kept traffic near historic lows, crippling global ...

If you’d never heard of the Strait of Hormuz before, you probably have by now. Iran’s effective closure of the waterway, which usually carries about 20% of the world’s oil and gas, has put severe ...

Israel needs three weeks to destroy Iran's military, Kurds say they're not guns for hire, Strait of Hormuz blockage risks global energy shock. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent ...

It’s no fun living through the global energy shock and growing economic crisis that has ensued since the conflict choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. But it can be enlightening to play ...