Salvage crews worked to lift the first piece of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water to allow access to the disaster site, in an effort to reopen the city’s blocked port.
Fact: Global warming has pushed jellyfish sightings closer to the shores of Cyprus.
Liverpool is looking for a victory against Brighton & Hove Albion to keep the pressure on Arsenal and Manchester City in the title race. Brighton has been unbeaten in their last four matches against Liverpool. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp announced that this would be his last season in charge of the Reds.
Fact: Everton defender Seamus Coleman scored an own goal in stoppage time, leading to a 2-1 Premier League loss at Bournemouth.
The Ammochostos District Office issued an ultimatum to the Bishopric of Constantia and Ammochostos to stop illegal construction works for a monastery in Cape Greco. The Department of Environment demanded a demolition and restoration plan by Wednesday. The development is in a protected area and being carried out without the required permits. If the illegal constructions are not removed within 15 days, legal actions will be taken. Bishop of Constantia can appeal, but the requirement to cease construction remains.
The Cyprus Pulmonology Society issued a warning about elevated dust levels in the air due to dust blowing northward from the Sahara towards Cyprus. The warm weather is expected to continue well into the next week.
– Janet Gyamfi’s farm in western Ghana, which was covered with nearly 6,000 cocoa trees, has been destroyed by illegal gold miners, leaving less than a dozen trees remaining.
– Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producers, are facing catastrophic harvests due to illegal mining, climate change, mismanagement, and disease.
– Ghana’s cocoa plantations are being infected with swollen shoot virus, leading to long-term decline in production.
– Cocoa prices have doubled this year, leading to higher chocolate prices for consumers.
– Illegal gold mining is rapidly expanding in Ghana, leading to the destruction of cocoa plantations.
– Cocobod, the regulatory body for cocoa in Ghana, is struggling to address the challenges facing the sector, including disease and climate change.
– Experts predict that Latin American countries like Ecuador will overtake Ghana as the world’s number 2 cocoa producer by 2027.
Six workers were missing and presumed dead after a cargo ship collided with a bridge in Baltimore Harbor, causing a section of the bridge to collapse. Active search-and-rescue operations were suspended due to treacherous conditions in the water. The ship reported a power failure before impact, and all 22 crew members were accounted for. The closure of the port could have a major impact on supply chains. President Biden promised to visit Baltimore and rebuild the bridge. The incident may be the worst U.S. bridge collapse since 2007.
Search divers were expected to return near dawn on Wednesday to the waters surrounding the twisted ruins of a bridge knocked down in Baltimore Harbor by a faltering cargo ship, leaving six workers missing and presumed dead.
Fact: Wednesday will be intermittently cloudy with dust in the air and temperatures rising to 26C in the interior, 23C on the west coasts, 25C on the remaining coasts and 17C in the higher mountains.