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CTV News
01-06-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
An iceberg resurgence reminds N.L. and its visitors of nature's beauty
An iceberg near St. John's has drawn residents of the provincial capital to take in the views. (Image courtesy Laura Chisholm White) A resurgence of icebergs near Newfoundland and Labrador has been met with plenty of celebration this month - especially after a relatively quiet year in 2024. The sightings have prompted a flood of posts, photos, and stories on social media. An iceberg near St. John's, closer to the town of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, has delighted residents of the provincial capital this week. Icebergs are more often seen in central and western parts of the province, requiring a commitment to visit. 'We live in a great part of the world where we can actually experience this on a regular basis,' said Patrick Collins, a Newfoundland ex-patriate who returns to St. John's regularly to visit family and friends. His partner, Karen Collins, has been making those visits too. But this was the first time she had seen an iceberg in person. 'It's amazing,' she concluded. 'I thought it would be just a little speck, but it's quite larger than I thought.' An iceberg near St. John's, closer to the town of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, has delighted residents of the provincial capital this week. Icebergs are more often seen in central and western parts of the province, requiring a commitment to visit. 'It looks like a crystal, a pearl on the ocean,' added Jing Wu, who moved to Newfoundland with his wife in 2018 for work but has only seen icebergs twice. The province's iceberg resurgence has prompted a flood of posts, photos and stories on social media. Iceberg in Newfoundland An iceberg sits off the shore of Newfoundland. (Image courtesy Mark Gray) There's no question there's been an uptick in visible sightings compared to last spring, but iceberg spotting experts at C-CORE, a remote sensing lab in St. John's, say it's still well below historical numbers. In 2024, vice-president Desmond Power explained, an El Nino weather pattern brought warmer-than-usual water temperatures to the North Atlantic. That has rebounded somewhat, Power says, though temperatures were still warmer than usual throughout the winter. 'We had expected the Iceberg situation to be pretty light this season, and in fact, we are pretty light this season,' he explained. 'Just not as light as last year.' There are regional variations too, Power said. Communities further west and north are seeing relatively more icebergs, and south and east relatively fewer. 'I look at this as, hey, you know what, this might be actually a new normal year.' Power's C-CORE lab has been hired to track icebergs for offshore oil and gas vessels — who can find them rather troublesome — and for the provincial government, who advertises their positions for tourists trying to take a peek. It's a big driver for visitors from out of province. But after a little bit of time away, many locals find they're drawn to the spectacle for themselves just as much. As 81-year-old Roy Chaytor observed, it brings to mind a conflict between stillness and motion — how is it, he asked, the icebergs could appear so stationary while the cold Atlantic Ocean whips so quickly around them? 'You can come and drink a cup of tea, and look at the Iceberg and try to figure out: Is it on the bottom?' Chaytor said. 'It must be because it's staying there. If it were not on the bottom, it'd be moving inward and coming in, coming in, coming in.'
CTV News
01-06-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
An iceberg resurgence reminds N.L. and its visitors of nature's beauty
An iceberg near St. John's has drawn residents of the provincial capital to take in the views. (Image courtesy Laura Chisholm White) A resurgence of icebergs near Newfoundland and Labrador has been met with plenty of celebration this month - especially after a relatively quiet year in 2024. The sightings have prompted a flood of posts, photos, and stories on social media. An iceberg near St. John's, closer to the town of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, has delighted residents of the provincial capital this week. Icebergs are more often seen in central and western parts of the province, requiring a commitment to visit. 'We live in a great part of the world where we can actually experience this on a regular basis,' said Patrick Collins, a Newfoundland ex-patriate who returns to St. John's regularly to visit family and friends. His partner, Karen Collins, has been making those visits too. But this was the first time she had seen an iceberg in person. 'It's amazing,' she concluded. 'I thought it would be just a little speck, but it's quite larger than I thought.' An iceberg near St. John's, closer to the town of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, has delighted residents of the provincial capital this week. Icebergs are more often seen in central and western parts of the province, requiring a commitment to visit. 'It looks like a crystal, a pearl on the ocean,' added Jing Wu, who moved to Newfoundland with his wife in 2018 for work but has only seen icebergs twice. The province's iceberg resurgence has prompted a flood of posts, photos and stories on social media. Iceberg in Newfoundland An iceberg sits off the shore of Newfoundland. (Image courtesy Mark Gray) There's no question there's been an uptick in visible sightings compared to last spring, but iceberg spotting experts at C-CORE, a remote sensing lab in St. John's, say it's still well below historical numbers. In 2024, vice-president Desmond Power explained, an El Nino weather pattern brought warmer-than-usual water temperatures to the North Atlantic. That has rebounded somewhat, Power says, though temperatures were still warmer than usual throughout the winter. 'We had expected the Iceberg situation to be pretty light this season, and in fact, we are pretty light this season,' he explained. 'Just not as light as last year.' There are regional variations too, Power said. Communities further west and north are seeing relatively more icebergs, and south and east relatively fewer. 'I look at this as, hey, you know what, this might be actually a new normal year.' Power's C-CORE lab has been hired to track icebergs for offshore oil and gas vessels — who can find them rather troublesome — and for the provincial government, who advertises their positions for tourists trying to take a peek. It's a big driver for visitors from out of province. But after a little bit of time away, many locals find they're drawn to the spectacle for themselves just as much. As 81-year-old Roy Chaytor observed, it brings to mind a conflict between stillness and motion — how is it, he asked, the icebergs could appear so stationary while the cold Atlantic Ocean whips so quickly around them? 'You can come and drink a cup of tea, and look at the Iceberg and try to figure out: Is it on the bottom?' Chaytor said. 'It must be because it's staying there. If it were not on the bottom, it'd be moving inward and coming in, coming in, coming in.'
CTV News
01-06-2025
- General
- CTV News
CTV National News: Giant iceberg off Newfoundland coast attracts new visitors
Watch Tourists visiting Newfoundland say seeing the iceberg is like 'finding a crystal pearl.' CTV News' Garrett Barry reports.
Boston Globe
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
At Harvard's Peabody Museum, plastic as inspiration — and threat
Founded in Mexico City, in 2009, TRES comprises Ilana Boltvinik and Rodrigo Viñas. They take as their mission surveying trash, its effects, and how refuse and the consequences of its disposal endure. They're very much aware that throwing something away just means it ends up somewhere else. With 'Castaway,' the somewhere elses are the beaches of Australia and Tasmania. Advertisement The show is an invitingly cunning jumble. It includes maps, postcards, marine specimens, a TRES notebook (fascinating to examine), and photographs of various discarded items as well as examples of such items. The photographs are unmatted, with black frames, making content rather than form the chief focus. The largest is 3 feet by nearly 2½ feet, the smallest is roughly 7 inches by 5 inches. Trash isn't uniform, so don't expect photographs of it to be. TRES, "Strange Kind of Hope II," 2016. The twist, and TRES likes twists, is how beautiful these objects can sometimes be. There's a bottle cap, for example, marbled blue by bryozoa, tiny marine organisms. In size and appearance, it could easily be mistaken for a gemstone or water-covered planet. The scary thing about 'Castaway,' as TRES intends, is this juxtaposition of beauty and damage. Advertisement That particular bottle cap has a title: 'And Yet It Moves.' The title works as a double play on words. What you or I dispose of keeps on moving: to a landfill, the ocean, or, if incinerated, into the air. Yes, 'it,' whatever that it might be, moves, all right. And the title alludes to Galileo's legendary response to being told by the Catholic Church that it was heresy to state that the Earth travels around the sun. He knew otherwise. Now we're the ones choosing to ignore a different irrefutable movement, one much closer to home. The TRES titles can be very funny, but in this context that can make them all the more dismaying. A photograph of a discarded rubber glove is called 'Intraterrestrial Ghost.' Fingers extended, it looks like a warning — or reproach. 'The Invasion of Everything' shows a sign advertising soft drinks. 'A Moon for Méliès (Le Voyage dans Lune)' presents a lunar-looking bottle cap — there are multiple bottle caps in 'Castaway' — which recalls the look of the destination in Georges Méliès's fabled silent film 'A Trip to the Moon' (1902). TRES, "Agency, Of Hybrids and Other Things," 2016 In 'Under the Bottle Cap, the Iceberg,' we see a thrown-away water bottle. The play of associations is especially rich: 'tip of the iceberg,' icebergs and water, and (remembering where the bottle was found) that slogan favored by young radicals during the student protests in France in May 1968: 'Beneath the paving stones, the beach!' In this case, it becomes: 'On the beach, the trash!' That in turn, speaking of French filmmakers, connects to the celebrated credit in Jean Luc-Godard's 1966 film 'Masculin féminin': 'the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.' Coke bottles back then were glass rather than plastic. Not that that kept them from being tossed, by Communist kids and capitalist kids alike. Advertisement 'Castaway' is the rare art exhibition where the verbal matters no less than the visual or conceptual, thanks to the pungency and artfulness of the titles, along with the descriptive information explaining what we're looking at, which frequently is quite different than what we might assume we're looking at. TRES, "Parallel Lives II," 2016. As it happens, the works lack labels or captions. Instead, the information is available on placards, which visitors can pick up and consult. Or not. Looking at 'Castaway' without any textual information, then doing it again with placard in hand might be the best way to experience the show. The Peabody awards a CASTAWAY: The Afterlife of Plastic At Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, through April 6. 617-496-1027, Mark Feeney can be reached at
Daily Mirror
16-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Domestic abuse 'epidemic' as one in four adults have been victims
WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: New figures reveal one in four adults have been been victims of domestic abuse from the age of 16 The UK is suffering a domestic abuse 'epidemic' it has been claimed after new figures reveal one in four adults have been victims. One in four adults in England and Wales are likely to have experienced domestic abuse, according to new research released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure is greater for women, at nearly one in three, while for men it is closer to one in five. The estimates taken from the age of 16 are the first to use an improved method for measuring how much domestic abuse there is among the population. A new set of questions has been added to the ONS's Crime Survey for England and Wales. Questions about health abuse and forced marriage are now included. And they reflect recent changes in the law regarding coercive and controlling behaviour. Reacting to the new figures, the UK's leading charity for victims of domestic abuse, Refuge, said it is now an 'epidemic' and warns they are just the 'tip of the iceberg'. Gemma Sherrington, CEO of Refuge, a charity which opened the world's first safe house for women and children in 1971, said: 'We are in an epidemic of violence against women and girls, so sadly, the latest ONS estimates around the prevalence of domestic abuse come as no surprise. 'We welcome improvements to data collection, but these figures are likely to represent the tip of the iceberg as violence against women and girls remains severely under-reported.' The charity said the Government must take urgent action if it is to achieve its pledge to halve violence against women and girls within the next decade. The new ONS research also includes details on economic abuse, when someone deliberately gets a person into debt or prevents them from getting a job. The ONS now estimates that in the year to March 2024, 26.1% of adults - around one in four - had experienced domestic abuse since the age of 16, the equivalent of 12.6 million people. Under the old research this was one in five. The new estimates suggest 30.3% of women and 21.7% of men surveyed in this period had experienced domestic abuse at some point since the age of 16, equivalent to 7.4 million and 5.1 million people respectively. Meghan Elkin, ONS head of crime statistics, said: 'The way domestic abuse manifests is constantly changing and is difficult to measure. In developing these questions, we have listened to victims and survivors of domestic abuse alongside a range of users from charities to academics and other government departments. '...The new approach has resulted in a higher prevalence rate as we have introduced questions to ask about types of abuse not previously covered by the crime survey, such as health abuse and forced marriage.' Health abuse includes anything from depriving a person of food and sleep, to forcing someone to terminate pregnancy. Responding to the findings, Dame Nicole Jacobs, domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales, said: 'Developing new ways to further our understanding of this terrible crime so we can put in place measures to tackle it and ensure survivors receive the support they need is absolutely vital. 'I welcome the ongoing focus on domestic abuse by the ONS, as only through knowing the full picture will we be able to rid society of it for good.' Women's Aid said they were 'pleased' with the new questions which they helped develop which they point out does not rely on police reports. 'Women's Aid has for many years been concerned that the questions in the survey have failed to adequately capture the lived experience of victim-survivors of domestic abuse.'
