River

• Il mese è stato uno dei più secchi mai registrati, con precipitazioni inferiori del 23% rispetto alla media, secondo i dati del Met Office • Uno degli aprile più aridi mai registrati per l'Inghilterra centrale e meridionale ha lasciato i livelli dei fiumi al di sotto della norma, alimentando i timori di siccità in alcune aree durante l'estate. • L'ultima indagine idrologica del Regno Unito – che monitora i livelli dei fiumi e delle acque sotterranee – suggerisce che l'Inghilterra centrale e meridionale e la Scozia orientale subiranno flussi fluviali notevolmente bassi nei prossimi tre mesi, sollevando preoccupazioni per possibili carenze idriche se il tempo secco dovesse persistere. Continua a leggere...

• China Daily evidenzia la Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), il più grande accordo di libero scambio al mondo, come elemento sempre più vitale per sostenere la crescita in tutta l'Asia in un contesto di incertezze globali. • Coprendo il 30% del PIL e della popolazione mondiale, l'RCEP facilita una maggiore integrazione della catena di approvvigionamento e la riduzione delle tariffe tra i 15 paesi membri, tra cui Cina, Giappone, Corea del Sud, i paesi ASEAN e l'Australia. • L'espansione delle regole commerciali del patto sostiene la resilienza contro le guerre commerciali e i rallentamenti economici, incrementando il commercio intra-asiatico di un valore stimato tra il 10% e il 15% nei settori chiave.

Il produttore di automobili aveva rilasciato "numerose dichiarazioni per rassicurare i conducenti che non lo avrebbe fatto", afferma il procuratore generale della California

Delivery truck driver emerged with minor injuries after underside of jet hit tractor trailer in New Jersey on SundayThe driver of a delivery truck emerged with only minor injuries after his tractor trailer was struck by a passenger jet landing in New Jersey’s busy Newark airport on Sunday afternoon, officials said.New Jersey state police said a landing tire and the underside of a United Airlines plane arriving from Venice, Italy, hit the truck in question. The Boeing 767 aircraft also clipped a light pole, which in turn struck a Jeep. Continue reading...

Proposal includes cutbacks for three years as negotiations over future of shrinking reservoirs have been unsuccessfulThe states of California, Arizona and Nevada have proposed voluntary water-saving measures for the next three years aimed at buying time while negotiations remain deadlocked over the future of shrinking reservoirs filled by the Colorado River.The Colorado River provides water to some 40 million people in the American west. But the two massive reservoirs filled by the river, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both stand at historically low levels, after consistent overdrawing coupled with reduced snowpack and warming from climate change. Continue reading...

Vehicle was travelling through Juvisy-sur-Orge when it veered off the road and fell in the riverFour people have been rescued from the Seine near Paris after a bus driven by a trainee driver collided with a parked vehicle before plunging into the river.The bus was travelling through the town of Juvisy-sur-Orge south-east of the French capital when it veered off the road and fell into the Seine, prosecutors said. Continue reading...

Lawyers for Avara Foods and Freemans of Newent say legal claim backed by 1,300 people is ‘entirely inferential’Lawyers for one of the country’s biggest producers of industrially farmed chicken have attacked a claim that they are responsible for pollution in the River Wye and River Usk.More than 1,300 people have signed up to sue Avara Foods, its subsidiary Freemans of Newent and the local sewage company Welsh Water for extensive and widespread pollution in the rivers and their catchment areas. Continue reading...