Police will create a ‘hostile environment’ for shoplifters in a bid to crack down on an epidemic of retail theft, ministers vowed today. One senior officer urged members of the public to tip-off police if they are offered suspiciously cheap goods which may have been stolen. Under a new action plan, officers will turn up...
In Haiti, as the number of murders soar and kidnappings rise, even the police are fleeing. With no elected president in office and a prime minister widely seen as illegitimate, calls for the government’s ouster are now being heard from an unlikely source: a brigade of armed officers ostensibly responsible for protecting environmentally sensitive areas....
Deteriorating flood defences mean more than 200,000 homes in England are at risk of flooding, with MPs blaming Environment Agency budget shortfalls. A report by MPs on the public accounts committee said the EA had failed to meet a target of maintaining 98% of “high consequence” flood defences. The agency has had to downgrade the...
Added on January 15, 2024 Sara Swanson Michigan regulators want to tamp down on manure pollution from the state’s largest livestock operations. But farm interests argue that new regulations go too far. Bridge file photo. by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan) It began with a debate about how to dispose of the copious manure generated by...
GBD 2019 Mental Disorders Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of 12 mental disorders in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Psychiatry. 2022;9(2):137–50. Article PubMed Central Google Scholar Liu BP, Jia CX, Qin P, Zhang YY, Yu YK, Luo X, et al. Associating factors...
MOSCOW — Three University of Idaho College of Law students have left the state in response to alleged discrimination they received over the course of their enrollment, a federal lawsuit says. The lawsuit, originally filed in September and refiled in December, says the students all identify as LGBTQ+, one is Black and one is Pacific...
Delta Airlines Inc. CEO Ed Bastian said that an atmosphere of volatility prompted the company to lower its 2024 earnings guidance. The air carrier reported a top- and bottom-line beat with its fourth-quarter results Friday, although the company’s stock was falling 8.6% after Delta delivered lowered earnings guidance. For 2024, Delta expects earnings of $6...
With the wind chill making it feel like minus 31 this morning, and more of these super low temperatures remaining throughout the week, Environment Canada is reminding of the risk of frostbite. “It’s really important for people to plan their time to take the necessary precautions like dressing properly, not. Spending a whole lot of...
As Christmas approaches, many children experience the “gimme-gimmes” and write a list of toys that they hope Santa will bring. This is to be expected. Toys give children a chance to learn and be curious, engage their imaginations in play and become socialised with others. Unfortunately, 80 percent of all toys end up in landfills,...
Military missions in the air, on land, and at sea demand robust, timely weather information. On-orbit space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) systems are a critical source of this data, but years of underfunding, delayed, curtailed, and canceled modernization programs have left the SBEM enterprise in a precarious state. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is the...
