Forty minutes or so later, the landscape grew thicker and greener, everything fattened by proximity to water. The air tasted as if it had been finished with Maldon. Bursts of color appeared. Walls of hot pink bougainvillea, white and purple trumpet flowers. As if summoned, a wedge of blue appeared. The sea. Everyone started clapping. […]
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A wooden boat carrying 130 to 180 migrants broke apart against rocks near a beach town in southern Italy early on Sunday, drowning at least 59 people, including a newborn and other children, the authorities said. Eighty people survived the wreck, according to Italy’s Coast Guard, which said helicopters, ships and jet skis were still […]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her plan for accelerating the development of New York’s offshore wind industry a year ago, she promised thousands of jobs for state residents. Today, New York’s first wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean is under construction. Crews in hard hats are assembling platforms for giant turbines […]
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When the Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment received a mayday call from a mariner in distress Friday morning, the agency went into full-rescue mode, deploying a 47-foot lifeboat, calling the aircrew of a Jayhawk helicopter and mobilizing multiple crews of the National Motor Lifeboat School who were conducting training nearby. It would turn out that […]
Read MoreMeanwhile, the environmental campaign was picking up steam. Days after the ship departed, Turkish officials asked their Brazilian counterparts for a new inventory of hazardous substances. Dissatisfied with the response, Turkish officials canceled import permission. The ship and its tug, which by then had reached Gibraltar, had to turn back. Environmental groups counted it as […]
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