David Schechter is a national environmental correspondent and the host of "On the Dot with David Schechter," a guided journey to explore how we're changing the earth and earth is changing us. Aparna ...

On a sunny afternoon in June a dozen trucks line up on North Marine Drive in Portland, waiting to turn into marine Terminal 6 where they’ll drop off or load up large shipping containers. It’s a fairly ...

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James “Jimmy” Thompson lay awake on concrete, hoping he’d be able to fall asleep – praying even more he’d wake up in the morning. His feet, hobbled and pained from living on the street, were a ...

From tiny houses to apartment buildings, art galleries and more, architects never seem to tire of experimenting with shipping containers. This neat example of the metal boxes' versatility consists of ...

SIX. ANIMAL SHELTERS IN OUR AREA ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF SPACE. WITH OVERCROWDING NOW A HUGE ISSUE. AND NOW LOCAL NONPROFIT IS HOPING SHIPPING CONTAINERS MIGHT OFFER A TEMPORARY SOLUTION. REPORTER ...

Converting a shipping container into a garage is a very real possibility, but there are some important factors to take into ...

When the Ever Given became stuck in the Suez Canal in 2021, the BBC reported, it prevented approximately 12% of the world's trade from passing through. The Ever Given itself had a capacity for 20,000 ...

After one of my most recent Alibaba import adventures, I was left with a shipping container in my yard. These engineering wonders are great for many uses outside of merely transferring goods around ...