The sun’s 11-year cycle goes through regular but small ups and downs, but that doesn’t seem to change Earth’s temperature. And if anything the ever so slight changes in 11-year-average solar irradiance have been shifting downward,
AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on a passenger flight and an Air Force jet diverted from a potential collision.The Airbus A319 with 131 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants was embarking on a regularly scheduled flight between Reagan and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Delta Airlines said.
The flight left its gate at 2:55 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive at Minneapolis-St. Paul at 4:36 p.m. local time before the flight crew followed the diversion instructions from the controllers, the airline said.No injuries were reported.The Air Force’s website describes the T-38 Talon as “a twin-engine, high-altitude, supersonic jet trainer” used by different departments and agencies, including NASA, for various roles including pilot training.
The incident comes just two months after a midair collision above the same airport killed 67 people. The Jan. 29 crash between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter was the deadliest U.S. plane crash in more than two decades. Both aircraftAssociated Press reporter Julie Walker contributed from New York.
Israel has ordered six schools in East Jerusalem to close this week, throwing the educational future of 800 children of Palestinian refugees into turmoil.
In a visit to one of the schools — all run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA — Associated Press reporters witnessed Israeli police throw tear gas into the schoolyard as a group of boys played outside.Dorjey now lives with his wife, two daughters and a son in Kharnakling, where scores of other nomadic families from his native village have also settled in the last two decades.
“It was a tough decision,” Dorjey said recently, sitting on the veranda at his home. “But I did not have much choice.”EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series exploring the lives of people around the world who have been forced to move because of rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other things caused or exacerbated by climate change.
Konchok Dorjey walks toward a room in his home where his daughter Rigzen Angmo reads in Kharnakling near Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Konchok Dorjey walks toward a room in his home where his daughter Rigzen Angmo reads in Kharnakling near Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)