But but but … let’s say the elephants did end up in Germany — which originally triggered Botswana’s ire by moving to bring in a ban on trophy-hunting imports, thereby nullifying a popular population-reduction method — where would be the ideal spot for them to live? We asked an expert, Nuremberg Zoo director Dag Encke, … Read more
Updated Jan. 16, 2024 2:07 pm ET The U.S. military was searching for two Navy SEALs lost at sea during an operation that seized Iranian-made missile parts bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, as the U.S. launched another series of strikes against the group. The waters off the Yemen coastline have become a zone of … Read more
Updated Jan. 6, 2024 10:31 pm ET The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a temporary grounding and immediate inspections of dozens of Boeing 737 MAX jets, after one of the planes made an emergency landing when a section of the aircraft ripped away in midair. Passengers and flight attendants described a harrowing incident during an Alaska … Read more
Updated Jan. 4, 2024 2:13 pm ET In its certification, Airbus was required to prove that its A350 aircraft can be evacuated in less than 90 seconds. In Tuesday’s collision in Japan, the last crew member escaped the aircraft after 18 minutes—but there were still no casualties. The sizable discrepancy, for the moment, represents a … Read more
City of York Council (CYC) has today begun a 10-week public consultation to help shape the future of transport across York and its surrounding villages. This is the first time since 2010 that all aspects of transport have been looked at together, rather than as individual projects. The consultation, which has been designed to be … Read more
Mayor Anne Hidalgo says Paris will not have enough trains, and progress also needs to be made on the issue of homelessness. The transport system in Paris will not be ready in time for the 2024 Olympic Games, according to the mayor of the French capital. “There will be places where [public] transport will not … Read more
Updated Nov. 14, 2023 6:21 pm ET Inflation’s broad slowdown extended through October, likely ending the Federal Reserve’s historic interest-rate increases and sparking big rallies on Wall Street. Consumer prices overall were flat last month and rose 3.2% from a year earlier, a slower pace than in September, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Overall inflation … Read more
Good morning, Met Éireann updated its alerts at 5am. The Status Red wind warning for east Galway and Roscommon has been extended until 7am. The Status Red wind warning for Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Louth, Meath, Wicklow, Offaly and Westmeath has been extended until 9am. In both areas the warnings of possible inpacts are: – Damage … Read more
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Items being moved require careful packing and tracking. Now that everything is all go with the new collection facility being built in Hastings, our collections team has an enormous task ahead of it. In order to maximise the use of space, this new storage facility will have shelving as high as 3.8 metres and there … Read more
Ricardo, a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company, has been selected by the UKRI to provide the technical evaluation of the projects funded under the Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Programme. The projects funded under this programme will run real-world trials of battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technologies for the largest categories of … Read more