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Project Erebus: Wales’ first floating windfarm grants consent

The first floating windfarm in Wales was granted consent from the Welsh government on March 13. Project Erebus will be located 40km offshore Pembrokeshire in West Wales and will initially consist...

ADONIS: A Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers

ADONIS is a Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers. It is an easy-to-use tool for modelling and computational simulation of geotechnical problems, including linear and nonlinear analysis me...

Mont Blanc Tunnel to be closed for 3 months due to maintenance and renovation work

The Mont Blanc Tunnel is scheduled to be closed for about 3 months, from September 4 until December 18 ,2023, due to maintenance and renovation work. The same period of closure is also scheduled for...

Classroom swallowed by sinkhole in Zimbabwe

A sinkhole appeared under a primary school classroom in the city of Kwekwe, Zimbabwe on Thursday, March 16. The sinkhole was attributed, by the ZimLive news outlet of Zimbabwe, to illegal mining act...

Floods in two earthquake-hit provinces in Turkey

Large scale flooding occurred in two Turkish provinces, just over 5 weeks after the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country. More specifically, the provinces of Adiyaman and Sanliurfa were flo...

Saudi Arabia announces the Mukaab, largest built structure in the world

Saudi Arabia recently unveiled its plans to construct the Mukaab, a supertall skyscraper. The Mukaab will be located at the center of the New Murabba district of Riyadh, a 19km² development, which...

Parts of High Speed 2 (HS2) delayed by two years

The British government announced on Thursday afternoon that the construction of phases 2a and 2b of the High Speed 2 project will be delayed by two years due to inflation and rising construction cost...

Passenger train derailed near Cairo, Egypt

A derailment took place on Tuesday night, when a train heading from Cairo to Menouf, a city in the Nile delta, crashed on a concrete buffer stop. More specifically, the accident took place in the...

Damaged water main in Nottingham, UK has water flying over houses

A large water pipe was damaged in the area of Beeston in Nottingham, UK on Tuesday afternoon. Severn Trent, the water provider responsible for the water main, stated that damage to the pipe was ca...

Malaysian floods: 3 casualties and 36,000 displaced so far

Heavy rainfall in Malaysia has caused 36,000 people to be evacuated in 266 relief centers and has claimed 3 lives so far. The annual monsoon season in Malaysia started in November and is expected t...

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