The U.S. exploration company OceanGate used “intimidation tactics” to “evade regulatory scrutiny” in the years leading up to the June 2023 Titan submersible tragedy, according to findings released by the U.S. Coast Guard Tuesday. Those conclusions are part of an over 300-page report released by officials into the incident, which killed five people onboard when…
Steve Pike — The smallest tortoise in the world lives on South Africa’s west coast, and a button-shaped succulent endemic to a tiny area of the Northern Cape can be found nowhere else in the world. But the area’s unique fauna and flora are under threat from poaching, mining, farming, and climate change. AN ARID…
Journalist Hugues Comlan Sossoukpe, who has refugee status and is a vocal critic of the Beninese government, has been in exile in Togo since 2019. According to local media reports, he was invited by the Ivorian Ministry of Digital Transition and Digitalisation to attend a forum on new technologies in Abidjan,Ivory Coast, from 9 to…
Hurricane Erick — the fifth-named storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season — is approaching the coast of southern Mexico as “an extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm, the National Hurricane Center said around 4 a.m. ET on Thursday. Erick strengthened into a major storm hours earlier, and the hurricane center said its “extremely destructive winds”…
