Alaska

About 5,000 Bulgarian youth go to student work and travel programs each year in the United States of America, and interest in working in the country remains high. 

Alaska Airlines plane crashed on a highway in Alaska. Luckily, the flight from Anchorage to Unalaska Island did not end tragically.

The machine overshot the runway and stopped just short of plunging into the waters of Unalaska Bay.

At least 4 people were injured in the incident. Fortunately, there are no dead.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 shook the US state of Alaska, the US Geological Service reported, quoted by Tass.

The epicentre was at a depth of 34 km, located 475 km northwest of Fairbanks, with a population of 32,000 people.

There are no reports of casualties and damages so far.

Тhis summer has been the hottest in the northern hemisphere since measurements were made, scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NОAA) have found.

Temperatures in July this year were the highest ever recorded globally. This was reported by the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cited by France's press. Meanwhile, satellite data shows that polar ice has shrunk to record lows.

US president Donald Trump has repeatedly shown interest in buying Greenland from Denmark "in varying degrees of severity," the Wall Street Journal reported, citing global agencies.

The American daily cites unnamed current and former White House officials. According to quoted sources, the US president has asked his advisers to "consider the idea" of buying the largest island on Earth.

I am writing these lines as a wildfire rages through a nature reserve on the island of Evia, north of Athens. It's impossible not to think about climate change.

The great fire in Evia which is burning down virgin forests is a reminder of our future.

It came to remind us again in a resounding manner that the times are changing dramatically, that the climate is evermore affecting our lives, that our summers will be beset by the flames, and that our winters will be heavy and violent.

July 2019 was reported as the hottest month in the history of meteorological measurements, becoming the latest proof of the magnitude of the global climate crisis, WWF reports. The data are from the Copernicus European Union Climate Change Program, which analyzes temperature data from across the globe.

There were three major events over the last days which at first blush may seem unrelated but in fact had the same root cause.