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You think your crises are difficult to manage? Try doing it on the most inhospitable land mass in the world. That’s what Martin Boyle of the Australian Antarctic Division has to do every day. Nowhere is the weather more unforgivable. Nowhere is the margin of error between life and death slimmer. Nowhere else are hypothermia [...]
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The east coast of Australia is currently being pummeled by what is reportedly the largest windstorm to hit since Europeans settled the continent. With peak winds of 186 mph and storm surge of some 23 feet, this cyclone, which at one point spanned 400 miles, has the potential to devastate a region already reeling from recent [...]
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Close to 348,000 square miles across 20 towns are flooded and 200,000 residents affected after heavy rains drenched Queensland and neighboring states from December 25 to January 3. The effects of the flooding are far-reaching. Reports indicate Queensland-based insurer SunCorp has told the Australian Stock Exchange it has received 1,800 claims so far. A JP [...]
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It was recently reported that a Russian circus bear killed a circus manager, 25-year-old Dmitry Potapov, and critically injured another circus worker who tried to rescue the manager. Though we may not hear about every incident involving a circus animal who turns on its captors, there are plenty of eye-raising instances, such as the one [...]
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