OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded on its journey to the wreck of the Titantic because of poor engineering and multiple failures to test the vessel, according to an official report. Titan imploded in June 2023, killing all five passengers on board including OceanGate’s chief executive. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found the engineering process…
How lived poverty blocks climate action in Africa No. 13 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It aims to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters across all countries. Additionally, it calls upon governments to integrate climate-change measures…
For seven decades, poor countries wanting to get rich have turned again and again to dams. For the post-independence leaders of Egypt and Ghana in the 1950s, hydroelectricity and sovereignty were inextricably linked. Building vast irrigation and electricity projects across the Nile and the Volta was a prerequisite if they were to catch up with…
