Since 2019 at least 30 U.S. cities have taken fresh action such as hiring specialists to combat the impact of extreme weather, including Phoenix, Houston, Louisville, Nashville, and Oakland, according to the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, based at Washington D.C.’s Atlantic Council think tank.

Many of those cities have created posts and initiatives to deal with worsening heat waves, seasonal wildfires or the effects of flooding, often with a focus on poor and minority communities, the group said.

Helpless’ Sri Lankan fishermen count cost of chemical cargo ship wreck

Jun 5, 2021

The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, carrying 1,486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid along with other chemicals and cosmetics, was anchored offshore when a fire erupted after an explosion on May 20.

Flaming containers filled with billions of plastic pellets tumbled into the sea from the ship’s deck as emergency crews sought to contain the blaze over the next two weeks.
Now there are fears some 300 tonnes of fuel oil remaining on board could leak from the ship.

The ship’s operators, X-Press Feeders, said on Friday there was no sign of an oil spill.

Sedgwick announces new leadership appointments in Australia

Jun 5, 2021

Kimberley Daley was recently named head of professional services, and now four new appointments join the Australia leadership team, including:

Leon Briggs as , head of property, Emma Levett as head of forensic advisory services, Margot De Villiers as head of marine, Johanna Agar as capability development manager.

Delta variant dominant in UK, may increase risk of hospitalisation

Jun 4, 2021

There were 5,472 new cases of the Delta variant reported in latest weekly figures, taking the total confirmed cases of the variant to 12,431, PHE said, adding it had overtaken Alpha, the variant first identified in England’s Kent, as Britain’s dominant variant.

The Delta variant is also thought to be more transmissible than Alpha, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that it could derail plans for lockdown restrictions in England to end on June 21.

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