Migrant arrivals to Spain’s Canaries surge seven-fold so far this year
Madrid, Spain Reuters The number of migrants boarding rickety boats from West Africa and reaching Spain’s Canary Islands has risen seven-fold so far this year from the same period of 2023, Interior Ministry data showed on Friday. A total of 11,704 irregular migrants reached the Atlantic Ocean archipelago between 1st January and 15th February, compared […]
More than 500 migrants rescued off Spain’s Canary Islands
Madrid, SpainReuters More than 500 migrants were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Spanish coastguard said on Saturday, as the number of people arriving on the archipelago so far this year neared an all-time record posted in 2006. The coastguard said they had also found two dead bodies among those rescued […]
Four Nigerians, rescued in Brazil, survived 14 days on a ship’s rudder
Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters On their tenth day at sea, the four Nigerian stowaways crossing the Atlantic in a tiny space above the rudder of a cargo ship ran out of food and drink. They survived another four days, according to their account, by drinking the sea water crashing just meters below them, before being rescued […]
Time running short as search for Titanic sub focuses on undersea sounds
Reuters Rescuers searching for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic on Wednesday concentrated their efforts on a remote area of the North Atlantic where undersea noises have been detected, though officials cautioned the sounds may not have originated from the vessel. With estimates suggesting the air supply on board could run out […]
Wild horses face unruly storms as Fiona nears Canada’s east coast
Ottawa, CanadaReuters Shaggy, long-maned wild horses grazing freely on the sandy grasslands of the crescent-shaped Sable Island in the North Atlantic are expected to come under the swipe of a powerful storm forecast to hit eastern Canada this weekend. Hurricane Fiona, tracking northward after carving a destructive path through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, […]
Senegalese island keeps coastal erosion at bay with stakes in the sand
Diogue Island, Senegal Reuters Simple wooden structures padded with coconut tree fronds are helping residents of Diogue island in southern Senegal to win back stretches of sandy beach from the Atlantic swells that threaten much of the West African coast. In some areas, half-submerged tree stumps and crumbling abandoned buildings show the impact of the […]
More than 1,000 small earthquakes hit Portuguese volcanic island
Lisbon, PortugalReuters Around 1,100 small earthquakes have rattled one of Portugal’s mid-Atlantic volcanic islands in less than 48 hours, prompting authorities to activate an emergency plan as experts assess what they have described as a “seismic crisis”. Rui Marques, head of the Azores archipelago’s seismo-volcanic surveillance centre CIVISA, told Reuters on Monday the earthquakes, with […]
To honour slave trade victims, a memorial in the depths of the Atlantic
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation Tributes to victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can neither be visited nor even seen. A virtual memorial of ribbons on maps of the Atlantic deep seabed could honour the estimated 1.8 […]