🧊Dozens of ships stuck in the Arctic as ice freezes early in reverse of recent warming winters.
Shipping firms are blaming the Russian Met office for a forecast that failed to predict the early ice telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚢Maritime traffic in the Northern Sea Route has been on the rise in recent years as rapidly warming winters reduce ice cover, and Russia invests in its Arctic ports.
But this year several segments of the Northern Sea Route froze up about a fortnight earlier than usual
🌍Alexei Likhachyov - director general of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom, which manages the country’s nuclear-power fleet of ice-breakers - said on Monday that the ships included vessels sailing under the flags of Hong Kong and Marshall Islands
❌Companies shipping goods via the Northern Sea Route typically book a Rosatom ice-breaker in advance to accompany their vessel, but did not this time as they were assured of good weather telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️Viktor Gil, captain of The Mikhail Somov, one of the ships stranded along the Northern Sea Route, told the Tass news agency that the situation was “quite dire”.
“The ice is up to one and a half metres thick here,” he said.
Other areas have brought in night time lockdowns for the pets, with fines for the owners of offenders.
🔴The moves have prompted mewls of protest from feline-loving locals
🏠The council of Bendigo, a city of some 100,000 people north of Melbourne, has voted unanimously for cats to stay within the boundary of their owner’s property day and night
🇷🇺 Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine at the beginning of next year with far greater force than anything seen in the conflict to date, according to Ukrainian military intelligence.
🧀Outraged Parisians have launched a last-ditch attempt to halt the construction of a €700-million skyscraper that has been likened to a "giant piece of brie"
🏙️Architectural purists say the "Triangle Tour" - set to be built this year within the peripherique, or boundary of central Paris - will destroy the city’s skyline
🪖It was once used by a platoon of Austro-Hungarian soldiers, but in the decades since was surrounded by a glacier.
The ice preserved everything – even scraps of paper, shreds of clothing and the hay that the soldiers used for bedding telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
A century on, the glacier that once entombed the bunker in the Italian Alps has largely melted as a result of global warming.
This frozen depository of the past now carries a stark warning for the future as leaders at #Cop26 deliberate how to try to put a brake on climate change
🔙The historic nature of Kamala Harris’s election as the first female vice president of the US seemed to creep up quietly.
Then, resplendent in suffragette purple, Harris drew every eye at the ceremony, Biden relegated to the role of supporting actor telegraph.co.uk/women/politics…
⭐️If this woman, the child of immigrants, the first black and south-Asian vice president elect, could go all the way to the top of US politics so could any little girl, anywhere
🇺🇸Exercise Green Dagger took place at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in the Mojave Desert in southern California.
The US forces asked for a “reset” half way into the five-day war fighting exercise, having suffered significant simulated casualties
➡️At one point, the commandos’ “kill board”, an intelligence assessment of the level of damage inflicted upon enemy equipment and units, had a tick against almost every American asset telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/0…