A barge crashed into a bridge in Galveston, Texas, causing an oil spill and partially collapsing the only road to a small island where a university is located. The city of Galveston says there were no injuries, but one person on the barge fell into the water and was quickly rescued. The incident comes weeks after a cargo ship crashed into a column supporting the Francis Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing the bridge and killing six construction workers. The Associated Press has more.
Well, the picture at the top isn't one I sent them and completely mis-represents the situation (it was constantly stormy and there was no sea ice!), but here's the piece I wrote for the Observer about the five weeks I just spent on a research ship in the Labrador Sea with 21 colleagues, measuring air-sea gas transfer and the mechanisms behind it:
The most northerly part of #Greenland is a peninsula surrounded by deep crevices.
Robert Peary in 1891 figured, after some exploring, that there must be an island & thus a strait.
Believing this theory, the #Denmark#Expedition thought to trace the Greenlandish coastline by sled.
But sadly, the strait did not exist.
The party of 3 found nothing but endless coast &, unable to reach their #ship, died of starvation.