Alternative transportation
fromThe New Yorker
5 days agoThe Car-Crash Conspiracy
Large trucks, though only 5% of vehicles, are involved in 10% of fatal accidents, causing over 5,000 deaths annually in the U.S.
A snowstorm dumped several inches of snow across parts of Vienna overnight into Friday. Vienna International Airport paused flights on Friday due to heavy snowfall. Snow and ice on the roads of the city led to multiple traffic accidents, the public broadcaster Osterreichischer Rundfunk reported on Friday. What do we know about the snowstorm? Heavy snowfall has been reported in several parts of Austria since Thursday.
One of the biggest threats to pangolins globally is habitat loss, but here in Singapore, road accidents are a larger immediate threat. We live in an urban city but we have a lot of wildlife all around us as well, so some encounters are inevitable. I work as a veterinarian at Mandai Wildlife Group, which manages the Singapore Zoo. In this image, taken in May, I'm examining Berani, a big male Sunda pangolin ( Manis javanica), at our facilities in the zoo.