If a company operates 100 trucks, it has scores of drivers travelling down the road checking the weather forecast – at their start point, along the route, and destination. Conditions can change quickly, and danger lurks around the next bend.
Knowing ro…
Falling rocks forced rescuers to suspend their search on Thursday for victims of a large landslide that swept across a highway in the mountains of northern India a day earlier, killing at least 14 people.
The rescuers pulled back after loose rocks bega…
Rescuers resumed their search for survivors and victims of a large landslide that swept across a road in the mountains of northern India a day earlier, killing at least 13 people.A bus, a lorry and two cars were smashed in the landslide in Himachal Pra…
A teenager was rushed to hospital after being crushed by a tree outside her school following a night of fierce gales.
The Year 10 pupil was injured at around 8am today while walking to King Henry School in Bexley, south east London.
An ambulance rushed…
By Alex Whiteman, Brexit reporter
15/01/2021
DB Schenker is facing further criticism over its decision to temporarily suspend services into the UK.
One source told The Loadstar the Germany-headquartered forwarder’s decision to cut the cord on clients…
More than a thousand people have been forced to flee a caravan park in a “major incident” after it was flooded on Christmas Eve.
Emergency services began moving people out of the Billing Aquadrome holiday park in Northamptonshire on Thursday afternoon …
The rains started on Tuesday afternoon and it rained back and forth all evening.
The main streets were flooded after parts of Merseyside had been hit by heavy rains for hours.
The rains started on Tuesday afternoon and it rained back and forth all eve…
Bloomberg
La Nina May Disrupt Global Food Supply, Send Prices Higher
(Bloomberg) — The La Nina weather system could roil global food production, sending prices higher, as potential droughts and floods bring upheaval to a suite of key agricultural co…
Torrential rain that caused deadly floods in southern Japan was moving north-east on Wednesday, battering large areas of Japan’s main island, swelling more rivers, triggering mudslides and destroying houses and roads.
At least 58 people have died in se…
BOGOTA, June 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Severe thunderstorms in recent weeks over the Bahamas have revived memories of the death and destruction from Hurricane Dorian last year. Islanders are still struggling to recover from that shock as anothe…