“Mother Nature Hates You”

Most of the 667 fires that have erupted across Greece in recent weeks were started “by human hand”, the country’s senior climate crisis official has said.

As the Mediterranean country emerges from an unprecedented, 15-day period of heatwave-induced infernos, the scale of the destruction is finally being laid bare.

While weather conditions have been different from any other year – with experts calling the first three weeks of July the hottest on record – most of the fires could have been prevented, the government claimed on Friday.

Up to 450,000 Americans may have been affected by a potentially life-threatening red meat allergy caused by ticks as many doctors remain unaware of what it is or how to treat it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In new reports released on Thursday, the CDC found that between 96,000 and 450,000 Americans since 2010 may have been affected by alpha-gal syndrome. The syndrome, also known as a red meat allergy or tick-bite meat allergy, stems from alpha-gal, a sugar molecule not naturally present in humans. Instead, it is found in meat including pork, beef, rabbit, lamb and venison, as well as products made from mammals including gelatin and milk products.

Three days after a landslide destroyed a dozen hillside homes in southern California, the cause of the disaster is still unclear, even as the homes continue their slow descent into a canyon.

Sixteen people have been displaced since the land between the homes began shifting and sliding over the weekend.

A robot sent to search for the missing submersible Titan found its remains almost immediately after it went down to the site of the Titanic, the head of the team that led the search said.

Ed Cassano, the chief executive of the New York-based Pelagic Research Services, tearfully recalled sending his company’s remote operating vehicle (ROV) on what he hoped would be a rescue mission. “Shortly after we arrived on the sea floor, we discovered the debris of the Titan submersible,” he said.

Presumed human remains recovered from the wreckage of the Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard has said.

Medical professionals will formally analyse the remains which are understood to have been found within the debris from the sea floor at the site of the deep-sea vessel’s fatal implosion, which killed five people.

Debris from the lost submersible Titan has been returned to land after a fatal implosion on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic earlier this month, with the loss of all five aboard, deep in the north Atlantic.

Pieces of the mangled craft were brought ashore in Newfoundland, Canada, on Wednesday morning, in hopes of assisting an investigation into the tragedy and answering questions about the craft’s experimental design, safety standards and lack of certification.

An international group of agencies is investigating what may have caused the Titan submersible to implode while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage, and U.S. maritime officials say they’ll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide.

Investigators from the U.S., Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on the probe of the June 18 accident, which happened in an “unforgiving and difficult-to-access region” of the North Atlantic, said U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, of the Coast Guard First District.

The US Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the undersea implosion of the Titan submersible and has not ruled out finding human remains – while also hinting that the probe could lead to criminal charges.

Captain Jason Neubauer, who is chairing the US Coast Guard investigation into the implosion of the vessel, made the comments as the search and rescue aspects of the response came to an end.

British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were killed on board the submersible, alongside the American chief executive of the company responsible for the vessel, Stockton Rush, and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

Officials investigating the doomed Titanic submersible will examine voice recordings and other data from its mothership to try to determine what happened and whether any criminality occurred, according to reports.

While the world was praying this week for a dramatic rescue of the Titan submariners, those with access to classified intelligence knew all along that the search was almost certainly futile.

A US Navy listening device had picked up the noise of what has now been described as the “catastrophic implosion” of the vessel at the time it lost contact with its mothership on Sunday.

The founder of OceanGate dismissed warnings that he was risking passengers’ lives on his dives as “baseless cries”, newly unearthed emails show.

Leading submersible operators had warned Stockton Rush about the risks involved, with one telling him he was placing people on board in a “dangerous dynamic” through his refusal to adhere to industry standards.

But Rush said the fears were alarmist. “We’ve heard the baseless cries of ‘you’re going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult,” he emailed Rob McCallum, founder of EYOS Expeditions.

Warnings over the safety of OceanGate’s Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show.

In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been classified by an independent body.

Mr Rush responded that he was “tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation”.

Bone-chilling TikTok clips show what the “catastrophic implosion” of the Titan submersible might have looked like — a terrifying re-enactment of a scenario that killed five passengers in the North Atlantic’s treacherous depths.

Implosions happen shockingly fast, as demonstrated by an old animation of a railroad tanker suddenly collapsing. TikTok animators extrapolated what that might have looked like underwater.

🚨 Breaking News
All five people onboard on #Submersible are all very sadly died, #OceanGate confirms. This video shows how the accident happened with the submarine. 💔#Titanic #Titan pic.twitter.com/W82X9OawuD

— WOLF™️ (@thepakwolf) June 22, 2023

The US Navy detected sounds “consistent with an implosion” shortly after OceanGate’s Titan submersible lost contact, a navy official has said.

Five people were aboard the vessel when it went missing during a dive to the Titanic wreck on Sunday.

The loss of the sub was confirmed on Thursday after a huge search mission.

The official told CBS News their information about the “acoustic anomaly” had been used by the US Coast Guard to narrow the search area.

🚨 #BREAKING: A top secret US Navy acoustic detection system first picked up on the Titan submersible implosion just HOURS after the sub began its mission on Sunday, officials involved told WSJ.

Almost immediately after the sub lost communication with its mothership, the Navy… pic.twitter.com/NRU1E97NxF

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 22, 2023

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