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Mixed Martial Arts-Topuria KOs Holloway to maintain UFC featherweight title
Champion Ilia Topuria conquered early misfortune to score a thunderous thirdround knockout success over Hawaiian Max Holloway to maintain the UFC featherweight title at UFC 308 at the Etihad Arena on Saturday. The 27-year-old Topuria scored an early takedown but struggled to handle the range through the very first 2 frames of an intriguing title fight, but once he figured it out, the writing was on the wall for his opponent. Holloway, who beat Jose Aldo to end up being undeniable featherweight champ in June 2017 but lost the belt in December 2019, used his excessive range of strikes to keep his Georgian-born opponent at bay, however Topuria's piston-like right-hand man was a hazard throughout. That right-hand man was what started Holloway's demise, but it was a follow-up brief left that sent out Holloway crashing to the canvas and the Spain-based Topuria rapidly followed him to the ground, raining down blows before referee Marc Goddard jumped in to stop the battle. With that right hand, I felt it. I simply saw it with him, in his face, he began making some steps back, and you don't see that typically with Max, Topuria said, commemorating his opponent as Holloway suffered the very first knockout loss of his UFC period. I hope I'm going to be a small portion of the example he has actually been for me, for the new generation. In the co-main occasion, undefeated Chechen Khamzat Chimaev put on another dominant grappling display screen before submitting previous champ Robert Whittaker in the preliminary of their middleweight bout to set himself up for a crack at the title. Chimaev wasted no time taking the Australian down, utilizing his limpet-like fumbling to control Whittaker before taking his back and locking on to a face crank that appeared to dislocate his opponet's jaw, forcing a very quick tap with 1:26 left to enter the very first frame.
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Unique REPORT-Is climate change lighting a fuse under Iceland's volcanoes?
T oxic sulphurous gas, carrying the telltale reek of rotten eggs, wafted through vents in the high walls of Iceland's Viti crater, while carbon dioxide bubbled to the surface of the milky blue crater lake. Veils of steam wreathed the landscape of loose rock in eerie halflight. Through this prohibiting surface-- Viti is derived from the Icelandic for hell-- Michelle Parks, a volcanologist with the Icelandic Meteorological Office, selected her method towards the water's edge one day last August. With a screen strapped to her hip to warn her if the gases reached harmful levels, she stooped to submerge a temperature probe in the lake-- 26.4 degrees Celsius (79.5 degrees Fahrenheit), constant with recent readings. That was assuring, a minimum of for the time being. The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National forest in Iceland's central highlands, uncorked in an explosive eruption in 1875. Askja's last eruption, in 1961, was milder, and for decades after, the volcano was quiet. But in 2021, Parks and other scientists keeping tabs on it were shocked to find that in simply a few months, the volcano had actually quickly expanded, uplifting by 11 centimetres (4.3 inches). This phenomenon, called inflation, takes place when lava or pressurised gases build up under a volcano, pressing the ground upwards and outwards. In the three years since, Askja's bloat has reached about 80 cm (32 inches). That uplift, scientists approximate, is the outcome of 44 million cubic metres (1.6 billion cubic feet) of magma flowing into the existing reservoir around three km (2 miles). below the surface area. Volcanologists have actually established a correlation between lava. buildup under a volcano and subsequent eruption. But they do not. understand precisely just how much lava is required to assist trip an eruption. That is why Parks and her associates are closely keeping an eye on the. temperature level and acidity of Viti's crater lake. A jump in either,. suggesting that more gases are pressing in from below, would. suggest the volcano is moving closer to an eruption. So far,. those metrics have stayed stable, but the researchers viewing. Askja do not take that for approved. An eruption could be catastrophic, though smaller sized ones are. a lot more most likely. On the scale volcanologists utilize to determine the. size of explosive eruptions, Askja is capable of one equivalent. to that of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington in. 1980, although its eruptive design would differ. That eruption,. which stimulated the Australia-born Parks' long-lasting enthusiasm for. volcanoes, released a force equivalent to 25,000 Hiroshima-type. atomic bombs. The goal of the volcano observatory at the Icelandic. Meteorological Office is to keep track of the country's volcanoes for. modifications in activity, like those now observed at Askja, assisting. to protect the country's nearly 400,000 people and the hordes. of foreign tourists who check out every year to take pleasure in Iceland's. world-renowned geothermal attractions. Nevertheless, the team's work has taken on more comprehensive significance. In 2015, Parks and colleagues with the University of Iceland. gotten government financing for a pioneering research task. throughout 12 organizations to check a theory that could have dire. implications not just for Iceland, but for every person on the. world: Whether the rapid retreat of glaciers as an outcome of. human-caused environment change will set off increased volcanic. activity. The fundamental process underpinning the concept is simple. The. significant weight of glaciers and ice sheets can tamp down. volcanoes. When the ice retreats, the down pressure on the. planet's thin outer crust and much thicker underlying mantle. eases, permitting the ground to rebound. This change in pressure. spurs dynamic forces below volcanoes to produce more magma and. modify its motion, affecting eruptions. Iceland is basically one of the very best places worldwide. to study this ... because we have both volcanism and glaciers,. Parks stated. At the end of the day, what we're aiming for with. this task is a much larger image. It's the future of. volcanic eruptions. How large can they be? ... And what remains in shop. for us in the future, not just in Iceland however for the rest of. Europe and possibly farther afield. UNCORKING CATACLYSM What researchers already understand of Iceland's eruptive history. supports the theory. When the thick glaciers and ice caps that had covered the. North Atlantic island during the last significant Glacial epoch receded. between about 15,000 and 10,000 years back, underlying volcanoes. responded with fury. In 2002, scientists determined modifications in. Iceland's volcanic activity with time by evaluating the chemical. structure of lava rock samples. They found that eruption rates. rose an approximated 30 to 50 times during and quickly after the. ice loss compared to the preceding Ice Age and current times. It was likely a catastrophic situation, with a ludicrous. amount of eruptions, Parks said, as rivers of lava improved the. island and ash rained into surrounding seas. Askja, too,. signed up a significant explosive eruption throughout this time. When again, researchers state, the elements required to set off. another surge in eruptions are converging. Glaciers now cover. simply 10% of Iceland, however that ice still weighs on over half. the country's 34 active volcanic systems, and it is quickly. melting as international temperature levels climb. In the previous 130 years,. Iceland's glaciers have actually lost about 16% of their volume, with. half of that in just the past 3 years. Researchers anticipate. approximately half of the staying volume will be passed this. century's end. Already, the magma chambers underneath Iceland might be. responding to the loss of ice, and not just those straight under. glaciers. Askja, which has been free of ice for 10,000 years,. and much of Iceland are rebounding due to the fact that pressure changes from. glacial retreat affects big parts of the Earth's crust and. mantle. Over the last 3 years, magma has actually been produced below. Iceland at a rate 2 to 3 times what it would have been without. the ice loss, according to preliminary modelling results from. Parks' project shared exclusively with Reuters. More magma is. can be found in below Iceland, and we simply do not require it, Parks. said. We have actually got enough. Researchers very first theorised in the 1970s that melting ice. may impact volcanic eruptions. However just recently have they. started to comprehend the scale of the potential risk. Four. years ago, volcanologists compiled the initially detailed. global database of volcanoes under ice or within five km (three. miles) of it, releasing their findings in the journal Global. and Planetary Change. They discovered that some 245 active or. potentially active volcanoes around the globe met the criteria,. from the Andes to The United States and Canada's Waterfall Mountains and Alaska,. to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Antarctica. The exact same research study likewise found that about 160 million people live. within 100 km (62 miles) of at least one of those volcanoes and. that 20,000 individuals are within the immediate area. Numbers. like that underscore the hazard if glacial melt were to press. more volcanoes to pop off, releasing deadly floods and mud. circulations and spewing huge clouds of ash and lethal gases into the. atmosphere. The impacts would not end there. Eruptions abundant in carbon. dioxide, a greenhouse gas, could exacerbate international warming,. outlasting the sulphur aerosols in the environment that can cause. initial durations of cooling. And the volcanoes now understood to sit. under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might help speed ice melt. into the ocean, raising sea levels. Evidence suggests that what occurred in Iceland after the. last Glacial epoch was duplicated to a lower extent all over the world. Eruptions were between 2 and 6 times greater internationally between. 12,000 and 7,000 years ago owing to more regular eruptions in. areas that were losing their ice cover, according to a 2009. research study in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. A VIOLENT HISTORY Iceland is uniquely primed for frequent volcanic eruptions. because of its location at the juncture of 2 tectonic plates. that are pulling apart over an upwelling of anomalously hot. material in the Earth's mantle. Many smaller sized eruptions have. little effect beyond their immediate vicinity, though they are. still able to put on incredible shows. Others can have deadly. effects far beyond Iceland. When Laki, southwest of Askja, erupted in 1783-84, the. fluorine it expelled polluted the island's plants and water. sources, killing majority of Iceland's livestock. This. farming collapse resulted in a famine that eliminated around a fifth. of the island's human population, while the resulting haze of. sulphurous fog that later on reached Europe may have added to. the deaths of thousands more people. And as far as Africa. and Asia, the eruption's results compromised monsoons, starting. more scarcities. Near the southern coast under a little ice cap lies Katla,. considered one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes under. ice. Katla has actually racked up more than 20 eruptions because the Middle. Ages, balancing one every 60 years, and it is overdue for. another, having last erupted in 1918. Throughout that eruption, heat. putting from Katla's caldera rapidly melted the ice atop the. volcano, releasing a torrent of water higher than the integrated. discharges of the Amazon, Mississippi, and Yangtze rivers at its. peak. And, like Laki, Katla has explosive potential. The time for Katla to emerge is coming close ... It is high. time for European federal governments and airline authorities all over. Europe and the world to begin planning for the ultimate Katla. eruption, then-Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson informed. BBC News in 2010, following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. The ash cloud from that eruption caused EUR1.3 billion (US$ 1.4. billion) in losses from cancelled flights throughout a six-day. European airspace restriction, making it the world's costliest eruption. in the last century. The Icelandic federal government has emergency plans in place for a. Katla-style eruption and works with regional police districts to. produce near-term threat evaluations for other volcanoes. However the government has actually also tapped its intense structure to. its benefit, utilizing it to heat homes and companies and draw. big-spending travelers to renewing geothermal baths. After. the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, the Icelandic federal government made. volcanoes a pillar of a now multibillion-dollar tourist. industry. Keepsake stores in the capital, Reykjavik, offer lava. rocks from a recent eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula for. 2,000 Icelandic krona (US$ 14) apiece. SEEING YOUR PALS VANISH Like many Icelanders, 29-year-old Iris Ragnarsdottir. Pedersen and her daddy, 62-year-old Ragnar Frank Kristjansson,. have an intimate understanding of the extremes of their land of ice. and fire. Along the south coast in Svinafell, Ragnarsdottir. Pedersen, a mountain guide, lives with her hubby and their. Icelandic sheepdog, Blika. Her father, a retired national forest. manager, has a small turf-roofed summer house next door. Overlooking them is a large cliff, beyond which lies. Vatnajokull ice cap and, under it, the volcano Oraefajokull. After Oraefajokull emerged in 1362, sailors reported seaborne. pumice floating in such masses that ships could hardly make. their way through it. Father and child both remember signing up with fellow Icelanders. throughout the years to admire the glowing fountains and rivers of. lava produced by eruptions. They also recognize with the. impact of environment modification. For 25 years, Kristjansson has actually volunteered as a glacier. monitor with the Icelandic Glaciological Society, tracking the. retreat of 2 glaciers that flow out of the Vatnajokull ice. cap, the nation's biggest. Every fall, he treks for hours to. among the glaciers, Skeidararjokull, to take measurements that. he sends to the Icelandic Meteorological Office. It's a lonely. walk toward the glacier-- 15 km in the black sand, he stated. Kristjansson utilized to be able to stride right approximately the edge. of Skeidararjokull. However as it has rapidly diminished over the past. years, a lake has actually formed at the foot of the glacier, obstructing. his way. He now has to utilize unique binoculars to determine the. range. This year, he said, one point along the glacier's edge. showed a retreat of 300 metres (984 feet), which is the greatest. he has actually taped. Ragnarsdottir Pedersen has actually experienced the retreat from year. to year on treks to the glaciers with her dad and by simply. looking out her windows. It's simply devastating to see, she. stated. I have actually in some cases said to people, 'It resembles watching your. buddies vanish.' As a child, she understood Oraefajokull prowled under the. Vatnajokull ice cap. But it only ended up being a concern when the. volcano started rumbling in 2017, just as she and her hubby. started planning to build their home near it. When she felt the. earthquakes and caught the smell of sulphur from the rivers, she. said, You're like, 'Oh yeah, we actually have this powerful,. rather hazardous volcano right above our home.' Ultimately, she and her partner weren't worried enough to. cancel the relocation, having faith that researchers would closely. keep track of the volcano for any risk. People have resided in. Svinafell considering that the settlement of Iceland, she said. A CLINICAL CAPITAL Oraefajokull is one of 6 active volcanoes covered by the. Vatnajokull ice cap. As Vatnajokull has actually thinned and retreated,. some of the volcanoes below it, as well as close-by Askja, have. become agitated. Oraefajokull has relaxed considering that its 2017. awakening. Grimsvotn and Bardarbunga, 2 volcanoes under the. ice cap that are being assessed in Parks' task, have together. notched 5 eruptions in the previous thirty years, compared to just. one under the ice cap in the preceding 40 years. Parks and her clinical associates said it's too early to. conclude that the increased activity under Vatnajokull is linked. to rapid loss of ice cover. Other scientists have actually developed. that clusters of eruptions can occur in natural cycles under the. ice cap. But to determine whether climate modification might also be. playing a part, they will have to collect more data on ice. retreat and lava generation and feed it into complicated computer system. designs. Due to the fact that of its continuing unrest, Askja is the main draw for. scientists, who flock to its huge calderas when Iceland's. brief summer allows for field research study. Like most of Iceland's. volcanoes, Askja does not conform to the stereotypical cone. shape of volcanoes such as Japan's iconic Mount Fuji. Instead,. fissures snake across a vast Mars-like landscape carpeted. with lava rocks and pockmarked with craters from past eruptions. To reach the centrepiece of the Askja system, an. 11-square-km (four sq miles) caldera lake called Oskjuvatn,. researchers journey hours across the highlands in Super Jeeps and. Land Rovers balanced on 35-inch tires. Oskjuvatn was formed in. an explosive 1875 eruption that shot out big volumes of airy. pumice, much of it still covering the location around Askja, with. fist-sized portions tossed about by strong winds. Above the lava tank near the western side of the lake. is where Askja has actually been inflating fastest, a lure for. scientists. On a go to in August, Reuters experienced a group of. three scientists from the University of Geneva at the lake's. edge, filling equipment into an inflatable rowboat. Their objective: to. measure carbon dioxide concentrations in the lake and collect. water samples from its inmost points. The information is challenging to get. The numbingly cold and typically. tempestuous waters are dangerous. Landslides on the caldera's. high scarp can launch tsunamis huge enough to overload neighbouring. Viti crater. In 1907, 2 German researchers set off onto the. lake and were never seen again. The Geneva team's boat would be. the first on the lake in nearly a decade. The University of. Geneva scientists dressed in thick thermal equipment, simply in. case. One of them, geologist Nicolas Oestreicher, stated the work. was necessary offered both Askja's explosive capabilities and the. increased activity around the lake. If it's a huge explosion,. then it's truly hazardous for the people around here, the. travelers, Oestreicher stated. His group, which later returned securely from their boat journey,. was among numerous from Iceland and abroad that day racing to. find out what was going on at Askja. University of Iceland. geophysicist Freysteinn Sigmundsson, co-head with Parks of the. government-funded job, existed, too. Today might be the. wealthiest day in all of Askja's history in regards to the variety of. researchers here, he said. Sigmundsson has actually been pertaining to the volcano almost every year. considering that 1990 and he knows the terrain well. Carrying a. surveying tripod, he clambered with sure-footed expertise across. beds of jagged, crunchy lava, searching for round metal markers. that researchers anchored in the area in the 1960s and 1970s. These would inform him where to set up his equipment to examine how. much Askja had actually grown or moved over the past year. The measurements Sigmundsson and his coworkers took in. August showed 12 cm (five inches) of uplift at Askja given that the. previous year, confirming that the volcano was still in a state. of discontent and could erupt at any time. FROM THE ANDES TO ANTARCTICA Regardless of what they ultimately find, the interplay. between volcanoes and ice will remain a chief concern among. volcanologists. The most fatal eruption in the last 100 years. was that of Nevado del Ruiz in the Colombian Andes in 1985. Some. 23,000 people were eliminated after a superheated amalgam of ash,. lava pieces and gases called a pyroclastic circulation melted snow. and ice near the volcano's top, sending enormous rivers of mud. and debris hurrying down the volcano's flanks. Any eruption where there is a possibility of (snow or ice). communicating with the hot stuff contributes to the aspects of threat,. said Ben Edwards, a volcanologist at Dickinson College in. Pennsylvania and lead author of the 2020 study that produced the. database of ice-clad volcanoes. Edwards and his fellow researchers prepared a list of the. world's most unsafe volcanoes that lie under glaciers, based. on the volume of ice on or near each one, the frequency of past. eruptions, and the population living within 30 km (19 miles). 7 of the top 10, they found, are in the Andes. The most. hazardous is Villarrica in Chile, with more than 35,000 individuals. residing in its shadow. Edwards remains in the middle of a five-year. research study looking for to comprehend how Villarrica reacted to glacial. retreat at the end of the last Ice Age. The small number of research studies to date of the interaction. in between pulling away ice and volcanoes in other parts of the. world, researchers stated, mean the research underway in Iceland. will help develop a design template for what could occur elsewhere. It's not a best comparison: The underlying plate tectonics in. Iceland differ from those in the Andes. Magma reservoirs also. lie much deeper in the crust in the Andes than in Iceland,. Edwards said. We don't have an excellent physical understanding of all the. procedures that control melting (of rock into magma) much deeper in. the mantle, said David Pyle, a volcanologist at the University. of Oxford who studies Chilean volcanoes. Whereas in Iceland,. the conceptual model is better established because in a manner. it's geologically simpler. Antarctica, where both ice and volcanoes are abundant, has. become an area of issue in the last few years. While a handful of. volcanoes were understood to reside under the huge West Antarctic Ice. Sheet, in 2017 scientists reported discovering another 91 possible. volcanoes hidden there. How many of them are active or have the potential to awaken. is difficult to establish. There are probably two or 3. which are certainly active. However there might be as many as 100 or. 150, said John Smellie, a former senior volcanologist with the. British Antarctic Survey who has actually finished 27 field seasons on. the continent and won 2 Polar Medals from the British royals. If environment modification begins a new age of eruptions in the. coming years, Smellie said, it would hasten the already fast. loss of the continent's ice cover due to climate modification, adding. to rising water level and overloading the world's big seaside. cities. Antarctica is shedding more than 150 billion metric heaps. of ice a year, according to satellite measurements, and. scientists think that as oceans continue to warm, the West. Antarctic Ice Sheet is quick approaching a tipping point beyond. which the melt can not be stopped. If an eruption includes even a small amount to global sea. level, it will worsen impacts currently happening due to. environment modification, Smellie said. Under the worst-case situation, rapid melting of the West. Antarctic Ice Sheet would alleviate the pressure on buried volcanoes,. setting off eruptions. This in turn would speed up ice loss,. awakening much more volcanoes that melt more ice, and so on,. resulting in international catastrophe. Nevertheless, Smellie stated, that is. not likely to take place because thousands of nearly simultaneous. eruptions would be needed to melt even a small percentage of the. ice sheet. IN THE RISK ZONE Couple of individuals make their home near Askja. The closest village. lies about 60 km (37 miles) away. But some 13,000 individuals visit. the volcano throughout the summer season, when Askja is more. available, according to data from the national park authority. Frequently, tourists climb down into Viti crater to swim in the. Instagram-worthy lake, despite signs that warn them about acidic. water, which can irritate skin, and falling rock. After a week of field work at and around Askja last August,. the volcanologists gathered park rangers and local police and. lodging personnel in a close-by ranger hut one night for a security. instruction on the state of the volcano. Parks hovered over her laptop computer displaying a series of charts. and charts on her latest findings that revealed Askja was. still pumping up. Sigmundsson, standing in the doorway, described. to the rangers and police that forecasting eruptions is an. inaccurate science; they may not always have weeks of. seismic activity as a caution of an imminent eruption. The time. scale can be quite brief, he said. Hours, possibly ... You would. wish to have a plan if something occurs to rapidly evacuate the. caldera. Among the greatest threats to tourists is a phreatic. explosion-- a blast of hot steam, ash and rocks that includes. little warning. That's what formed Viti crater nearly 150 years. earlier. In 2019, a phreatic explosion at New Zealand's White Island. volcano killed 22 people who were checking out the island at the. time. At Sigmundsson's words, the room fell quiet. One of the. police officers then piped up with a plan: We just have to hope. that it blows up in the middle of the winter season.
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Commonwealth leaders state sinking nations must keep their maritime boundaries
In a boost for Pacific Islands such as Tuvalu under risk from rising seas, Commonwealth countries settled on Saturday that a country's maritime boundaries must stay repaired even if environment modification causes small island states to be submerged. The 56 nations with roots in Britain's empire issued the Commonwealth's very first Ocean Declaration at the end of a summit of the group in Samoa. The statement says the Commonwealth leaders verify that members can maintain their maritime zones under the law of the sea and that the rights that flow from them continue to apply, no matter physical modifications linked to climate change associated water level rise. Fixing maritime limits indicates atoll nations can continue to gain the economic advantage of huge fishing premises, even if much of the population must migrate as its dry land location is significantly reduced. The Commonwealth relocation follows a project by Tuvalu, where 60% of locals survive on an atoll scientists forecast will be half submerged by tides by 2050, to secure statehood in all time under global law. The U.N. International Law Commission, which will release a. report on sea-level increase next year, in July flagged its support. for a strong anticipation that statehood would continue where a. country's land was absolutely or partly immersed by increasing sea. levels caused by environment change. Of the Commonwealth members, 49 have a shoreline and 25 are. small island developing states. Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland stated the. declaration will offer real intend to lots of who are frightened and. are feeling nobody's watching. Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa said the first. ocean statement by Commonwealth nations had actually been embraced in. an area of the world where environment change is the greatest. risk to security.
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Commonwealth chooses Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey as brand-new secretary-general
Commonwealth members selected Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey as secretarygeneral of the 56nation club headed by Britain's King Charles, the Commonwealth said on Saturday, the final day of a top in Samoa participated in by Charles and Queen Camilla. Representatives of the nations, most with roots in Britain's empire, are going to the Commonwealth Heads of Federal government Meeting that began in the Pacific Island nation on Monday, with slavery and the hazard of environment modification emerging as major styles. Today at #CHOGM 2024, Commonwealth Heads of Government have chosen the Hon Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, presently the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Combination of Ghana, as the incoming Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth said on X. Botchwey, a supporter of reparations for transatlantic slavery and manifest destiny, takes over from Britain's Patricia Scotland, who has actually been in the task because 2016. Earlier on Saturday, Britain's king and queen flew out of Samoa, after a see in which the monarch acknowledged the Commonwealth's agonizing history, in the middle of a push for previous colonial powers to pay reparations for their role in transatlantic slavery. Charles and Camilla left Samoa about 12 p.m. regional time on a. Royal Australia Flying force jet, waving farewell as they boarded. the aircraft at Apia's Faleolo International Airport. Before leaving, the royal set participated in a goodbye event. at the village of Siumu, which took place in heavy rain. Charles on Friday stated in a speech to the top that he. comprehended from listening to people throughout the Commonwealth how. the most unpleasant elements of our previous continue to resonate. It is crucial, therefore, that we understand our history, to. guide us towards making the right options in future, he said. The push for ex-colonial powers such as Britain to pay. reparations or make other amends for slavery and its traditions. today has actually gotten momentum worldwide, especially among the. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the African Union. Those opposed to reparations say nations need to not be. held responsible for historic wrongs, while those in support. state the tradition of slavery has led to large and consistent racial. inequality. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is at the top,. has actually rejected calls for reparations and eliminated apologising for. the nation's historical role. The King and Queen's time in Samoa followed a six-day trip. of Australia, where a large crowd turned out to see the royal. couple at the Sydney Opera House. Charles likewise consulted with. Native elders in Sydney, after being heckled by an. Indigenous senator in Canberra.
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DEME Gets Multi-Million Dollar Inter-Array Cabling Job at Dutch Offshore Wind Farm
Belgium-based offshore installation services company DEME has secured a contract, worth up to $320 million, to carry out the transport and installation works for the inter-array cables and secondary steel for the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands.With an installed capacity of nearly 800 MW, the wind farm is being developed by a joint venture of RWE and TotalEnergies. DEME will transport and install a total of 114 km of inter-array cables, which will connect all 53 foundations to the offshore substation in the Dutch North Sea.The extensive scope includes all the engineering, preparation and supporting activities, ensuring that DEME will deliver a complete solution to RWE and TotalEnergies.Pre-sweeping will be conducted at the wind farm, situated 53 km from the Dutch coast, before cable installation in areas with significant sand waves to ensure the cable is buried at the required target depth.At the offshore substation and crossings of existing assets, the cables will be stabilized with rock.The secondary steel scope includes the transport and installation of boat landings, access platforms and internal platforms at the monopile foundations.Scheduled to start in the second half of 2026, DEME will deploy offshore and cable installation vessels, a hopper dredger and fallpipe vessel, as well as additional supporting equipment.“This latest contract award highlights DEME’s ability to provide a comprehensive range of solutions to the offshore wind industry. With our diverse offshore fleet and specialised equipment, we are well positioned to successfully deliver this project, while working closely with the RWE and TotalEnergies joint venture.“Additionally, the project will benefit from DEME's extensive experience in cable installation, particularly given the dynamic seabed environment at the wind farm location. We are also excited to collaborate with RWE and TotalEnergies, two leaders at the forefront of advancing the energy transition through innovative solutions,” says Philip Scheers, General Manager Subsea Power Cables at DEME.This is the fourth cable project DEME has been awarded in recent months. DEME won two contracts from Prysmian for the engineering and installation works for TenneT’s IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore grid systems in the Netherlands.As well as this, a consortium consisting of DEME and Hellenic Cables, won a major contract for the supply and installation of the high-voltage subsea cables for the Princess Elisabeth Island in the Belgian North Sea.
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Brazil's Lula cancels journey to COP16, COP29 after head injury
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has actually canceled the trips to the United Nations tops COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan, his office stated on Friday, following medical advice after he suffered a head injury last weekend. Lula went through fresh medical examinations on Friday, which revealed he remains in steady condition after a fall that caused injury to the back of his head, requiring stitches and resulting in a. little brain hemorrhage. Lula's workplace said on Friday morning he would not participate. in the continuous COP16, while later in the day it told Reuters his. involvement at COP29 next month was also canceled. Lula had already been forced to cancel a trip to Russia for. a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging markets. According to a medical report, Lula is cleared to carry out. his responsibilities in Brasilia and will go through brand-new tests within 5. days. The leftist leader was scheduled to take a trip on Monday to. Colombia.
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Prospect of lower oil costs puts pressure on Angola, finance minister states
The possibility of lower oil rates puts lots of pressure on Angola, the country's finance minister told Reuters on Friday, including that she expected to see rates average around $70 to $72 per barrel compared to $75 in 2024. The federal government of Africa's second-largest petroleum exporter will likewise continue to phase out fuel subsidies, Financing Minister Vera Daves de Sousa said in an interview on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank annual conferences in Washington. The number of steps we didn't decide yet, but our concept is to do it in actions, she said, verifying that aids were amounting to around 4% of GDP this year. Angola left the Company of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at the beginning of this year. Brent unrefined futures settled up 2.25% to $76.05 a. barrel on Friday. Experts have cautioned that oil rates would. come under pressure next year due to ample supply and lackluster. need. Daves de Sousa stated the federal government will provide its budget plan. to Parliament next week, with figures on external financing. needs being settled over the next couple of days. She said Angola was internally analyzing the possibility. of requesting a funding program from the International. Monetary Fund. We requested for a note with options of programs in case we. request, and considering our existing situation, what they. understand as a good program for us, she stated. She said the federal government was also thinking about other. choices, such as a mix of funding from other multilateral. sources such as the World Bank and the African Advancement Bank,. along with domestic capital markets and banks. The most current IMF program with Angola was for $3.7. billion, authorized in December 2018 after global crude costs. tanked, annihilating the nation's incomes.
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Phil Lesh, bassist and founder of Grateful Dead, passes away at age 84
Phil Lesh, an establishing member of the Grateful Dead whose nuanced bass playing made him an architect of the band's transcendent sound, died on Friday at age 84, his Instagram account said. Homages gathered from the music world and New York's. Empire State Structure stated it would illuminate the skyscraper in. tie-dye colors to honor a member of the psychedelic band known. for prolonged improvisations in its live shows, which drew. dedicated Dead Head fans known for traveling from show to. concert. The Instagram post stated he died peacefully, surrounded by. family. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lesh as the 11th biggest bass. player of all time, though he likewise sang lead and backing vocals. Lots of fans considered him as prominent as the band's front man,. Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995. His idea - 'play bass and lead at the very same time,' his notes. darting around the tune - ended up being as recognizable a part. of the Dead's noise as Garcia's guitar, Wanderer said. Phil was more than an innovative, revolutionary bass. gamer - he transformed how I thought about music as a. teen, Trey Anastasio, the lead guitar player of Phish, composed on. Instagram. Formed in California in 1965, the Dead pertained to prominence. throughout the 1967 Summer season of Love in San Francisco, a. counterculture movement that embraced peace, love and. hallucinogenic drugs. However the Dead's music endured a lot longer than that as a. mix of rock, folk, nation and jazz. After Garcia's death, longtime gamers Bob Dam, Costs. Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart formed numerous lineups under the name. Dead & & Company, while Lesh opted rather to create Phil Lesh and. Buddies, which played until 2023. Philip Chapman Lesh was born upon March 15, 1940, in Berkeley,. California, and started playing classical violin before changing. to cool jazz big-band trumpet, his main Dead biography. said. He later studied with speculative Italian composer Luciano. Berio before his buddy Garcia told him in 1965 that he was the. new bass player for the Warlocks, Garcia's band that was a. precursor to the Grateful Dead. Lesh reacted, Why not? Lesh is made it through by his better half, Jill Lesh, and their 2 boys,. Grahame and Brian.
Britain's environment advisers urge steeper emissions cut target for 2035
Britain's climate consultants, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), has actually suggested in a. letter to federal government that it need to devote to minimizing. greenhouse gas emissions by 81% by 2035 in its approaching budget. next month.
The brand-new Labour federal government is anticipated to reveal boosts. in public costs and taxes in its first budget plan in 14 years. next week.
The emissions cut target advised by the advisors is. greater than the existing target of a 78% reduction by 2035. compared with 1990 levels and excludes international aviation. and shipping emissions.
However, it would make a reputable contribution towards. limiting international warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above. pre-industrial levels, the committee said.
With environment damages already probed the world,. targeting an 81% emissions reduction by 2035 sets the right. level of ambition, stated Piers Forster, interim chair of the. committee. Our analysis shows this can be achieved in a way. that benefits jobs and the economy, offered we struck the. country's 2030 target - set in line with the CCC's suggestions in. 2020, he said.
The federal government needs to set out an upgraded climate strategy and. targets for 2035 before a U.N. deadline of February 2025.
In July this year, the CCC said Britain might miss its 2030. emissions reduction target and was off track to meet a. longer-term target of net zero emissions by mid-century.
The recommendations will likewise form part of the committee's seventh. carbon budget strategy covering the years 2038-2042 which is because of. be released in February next year.
(source: Reuters)