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☆ Goldman Environmental Prize: This saltwater lagoon is legally a person. Here’s why that could help it survive
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Mar Menor, Europe’s biggest saltwater lagoon, sits on the coast of southeastern Spain. Three years later, following an intense campaign, Mar Menor became the first ecosystem in Europe to be designated legal personhood rights. Today, Vicente was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize – an annual award given to six grassroots environmental leaders, each working in a different continent. Teresa Vicente, 61, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her successful campaign to grant Mar Menor legal personhood rights. “Right now, Mar Menor is in intensive care,” she says.

Persons: CNN —, Teresa Vicente, Mar Menor, Vicente, Jose Guerrero, “, ”, Jose Miguel Fernandez, Menor Organizations: CNN, University of Murcia, Goldman, Mar, Goldman Environmental, University of Reading’s Centre of Justice, AFP Locations: Spain, Europe, AFP, Murcia, Colombia, New, Whanganui, Spain’s

☆ 'I would never recommend this to anybody': We accidentally bought a derelict Victorian apartment for $12,000 at an auction and transformed it into our dream home
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Claire Segeren and her boyfriend bought a Victorian house in the Scottish Highlands by accident. They bid on the wrong property in an auction and spent four years renovating the derelict house. We accidentally bought a crumbling Victorian villa at an auctionThe couple were shocked when they saw the villa in person. From the auction brochure, the couple weren't too concernd Claire SegerenHe left the auction in a panic and called me. The completed front room in the Scottish villa.

Persons: Claire Segeren, —, Cal Hunter, We'd, Cal Joshua Sivarajah, Cal, It's, Claire Segeren Cal, van, Joshua Sivarajah Cal, Jameswood, Segeren, we've, could've, Segeren wouldn't Organizations: Scottish Highlands, Service, Canada, University of Glasgow School of Medicine, Cal, Jameswood Villa, eBay Locations: Scottish, Scotland, Canada, Hull, England, French, Glasgow, Jameswood Villa, Sandbank, Dunoon

☆ Offshore wind turbine catches fire off east coast of Britain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

An aerial view shows wind turbines at RWE's Scroby Sands Wind Farm, off the coast of Great Yarmouth, eastern England, on February 15, 2023. LONDON — An offshore wind turbine in the North Sea caught fire Tuesday, with all personnel evacuated and accounted for. The turbine is part of the Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm, which has a capacity of 60 megawatts. It is owned and operated by RWE Offshore Wind. In a statement sent to CNBC Tuesday, a Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesperson said: "HM Coastguard has been monitoring a wind turbine on fire at the Scroby Sands Wind Farm today … off the coast of Great Yarmouth."

Organizations: RWE, CNBC, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Coastguard Locations: Great Yarmouth, England

☆ Ukraine released footage of a HIMARS strike on Russians gathering out in the open on a beach, saying it took out 200 troops
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine on Tuesday published footage of a HIMARS strike on Russian units deployed to a sandbank. The clip appears to show soldiers stretching and exercising, as well as lining up in the open. Ukraine said it caused 200 casualties at Dzharylhach island, which is reported to be a training ground. The outlet reported that 200 Russian soldiers "were lost," though it's unclear how many died or were injured. On July 23, US-based defense think tank The Institute for Study of War wrote that Russian forces had "recently established training grounds on Dzharylhach Island."

Persons: Ukraine's Organizations: Service, Resistance Center, Facebook, EuroMaidan Press, Study, Ukrainian, Russian, HIMARS, Washington, National Resistance Center, Russia's Defense Ministry Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Kherson, Russian

☆ A large group of Russian troops violated 'military operations 101' and paid the price in a deadly Ukrainian HIMARS strike, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ukraine said it launched a deadly HIMARS attack on five Russian units gathered on a beach. Russia seriously misjudged its soldiers' proximity to Ukrainian HIMARS, two experts told Insider. Ukraine on Tuesday said it launched a HIMARS attack on five Russian units gathered on a beach resulting in 200 casualties and destroyed equipment. A Ukrainian official in June confirmed reports from a Russian military blogger that Russian soldiers were hit by Ukrainian HIMARS while standing still for two hours for a commander's speech, rendering them sitting ducks. "At a basic tactical level, we can see the Russian military is learning from its mistakes," Miles said.

Persons: Simon Miles, Miles, Mark Cancian, Cancian Organizations: Service, The Institute, Resistance Center, Ukrainian Army, Facebook, Duke University's Sanford School of Public, Soviet Union, US Marine Corps, Center for Strategic, Studies, Artillery Rocket Systems, Ukrainian National Resistance Center, Russian, Resistance Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Ukrainian, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Kherson, Soviet, Moscow

☆ It’s Toxic Slime Time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

For thousands of years, Lake Okeechobee pumped life into Florida’s swampy interior. Lake Okeechobee 10 miles Lake Okeechobee 5 miles Lake Okeechobee 5 miles Algal bloom extent on June 12 Source: Satellite image by Landsat By Leanne AbrahamRainy season is just starting, but by late June the lake’s level was roughly two feet higher than the United States Army Corps of Engineers would like. Sunrise over Pahokee and Lake Okeechobee. “Like clockwork.”Similar outbreaks have struck lakes elsewhere, including Lake Champlain, Lake Erie and Lake Tahoe. Equally challenging to grasp is the idea that the whole new lake, as big as it sounds, will fill to capacity if only six inches of Lake Okeechobee is sent its way.

Persons: Ian, Fort Myers, Stuart —, Leanne Abraham Rainy, ”, Star Robinson, it’s, Herbert Hoover, Palm Beach Herbert Hoover, Leanne Abraham, Gil Smart, Robinson, It’s, Herbert Hoover Dike, Roy Senff, Okeechobee’s outflows, Sherwin, Williams, Hoover, Stuart, Nature, Col, James Booth of, Tim Harper, “, Biden, Ron DeSantis, Eric Eikenberg, Bill Mitsch, Mother Nature, Floridians, Stefani Hughes, Smart, VoteWater aren’t, They’re Organizations: United States Army Corps, Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers, Orlando Area, Air, Palm Beach Herbert, Everglades, States Geological Survey, Everett, Inc, Fort, Florida Water Management District, Florida Legislature, Gov, Everglades Foundation, Research, Florida Gulf Coast University Locations: Okeechobee, Fort, Pahokee, Lake Okeechobee, Ala, Orlando, Fla, Kissimmee, Florida, Myers, Gulf, Mexico, Miami, Ga, Palm, Everglades Miami, Lake Champlain, Lake Erie, Tahoe, Stuart, U.S.D.A, Manhattan, South Florida

☆ ‘Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester’ Review: The Nearly Sunk and Future King
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Henry Hitchings | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

There are three million shipwrecks scattered across the ocean floor. Only a tiny number of these have been explored. This 117-foot craft had sunk in May 1682 after hitting a sandbank, while carrying the Duke of York, the future King James II of England. But only in June last year was the wreck formally identified—and hailed as the most significant maritime discovery since Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose was raised in 1982. Another find is a silver teaspoon, with an engraving that suggests it belonged to one of James’s huntsmen, Thomas Jory, a “saucy fellow” who hid under a seat on a rescue boat as the Gloucester went down.

☆ Two British citizens among dead in mid-air helicopter collision near Australian theme park
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Lewis Jackson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SYDNEY, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Two travellers from the United Kingdom were among four people killed in a mid-air helicopter collision near an Australian theme park that authorities say could have been much worse. Queensland state police say two helicopters collided about 300 meters in the air on Monday afternoon as one was landing and another taking off near Sea World on Australia's Gold Coast. The helicopter that was taking off crashed, killing four of the seven aboard, including 40-year-old pilot Ashley Jenkinson and two visitors from the United Kingdom. Sea World Helicopters, which operated the aircraft involved in the crash, is independent of Sea World owner Village Roadshow Theme Parks and is closed until further notice, according to a statement on its website. Sea World was open on Tuesday.

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