Underwater Autonomous Glider Departs for First-Ever Global Circumnavigation

Using Teledyne’s Redwing, the most advanced commercial subsea glider ever developed, the near five-year Sentinel Mission departs on October 10, 2025, following a ceremony at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), which operates the second...

US researchers launch historic first circumnavigation with autonomous vehicle

Teledyne Marine and Rutgers University are launching an autonomous underwater vehicle on a first-ever, five-year global mission to collect data for ocean scientists. Teledyne’s Redwing, the most advanced commercial subsea glider ever developed,...

Deep underwater glider launches five-year journey around Earth

By Ben Barry A deep-diving underwater glider is set to begin an epic 73,000km five-year journey circumnavigating the entire globe to collect data to improve weather forecasting. The pioneering world-first tech will launch from the edge of the...

In a World First, Autonomous Robot Glider to Circle the Globe in Historic Ocean Mission

An underwater vehicle named Redwing will be launched in a Teledyne Marine-Rutgers project to collect data for ocean science and weather forecasting Guided by the rhythms of the sea and the promise of discovery, Teledyne Marine and Rutgers...

World-first: Underwater Autonomous Glider to circumnavigate the globe

Newswise — In a world-first for marine science and technology, Teledyne Marine in collaboration with Rutgers University-New Brunswick, will conduct a pioneering mission to circumnavigate the globe with an autonomous underwater glider. Using...

Galamsey, Chiefs, and the Fatal Illusion of State Control: Why Ghana must return power to the people

Across the world, the most enduring conflicts are about land, not merely as territory, but as a means of ancestry, identity, and survival. From Gaza to Kashmir, from Crimea to the Falkland Islands, whoever controls land determines the destiny of...

Robotic underwater glider sets out to circumnavigate the globe

The Redwing glider during a test launch Teledyne Marine A small robot submarine is setting out to go around the world for the first time. Teledyne Marine and Rutgers University New Brunswick in New Jersey are launching an underwater glider called...

First Islander Aircraft in the Falklands Remembered

October the 4th marks the date when the first Britten-Norman Islander aircraft arrived in the Falkland Islands, way back in 1979. The Islander, known as Victor Yankee, was the latest in a long line of plane models used by the Falkland Islands...

“Ticket to Antarctica,” Fleet of BAS airplanes heading from Canada to Rothera research station

Thursday, October 9th 2025 - 08:54 UTC UK’s Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, a vast journey broken down across 11 stops over North and South American continents, including Falklands The fleet of British Antarctic Survey, BAS,...

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary hosts free autumn lecture series

KEMPTON — The Hawk Mountain Autumn Lecture Series kicked off on Oct. 4 with a free lecture by Shawn Carey, vice president of Eastern Mass Hawk Watch, who shared his trip to the remote Falkland Islands, home to many spectacular wildlife including...

Bowie, Diana and Thatcher: Work of the late Times photographer Brian Harris

Brian Harris was the youngest staff photographer at The Times when he joined the title at the age of 24 and covered news and sport, at home and abroad. During a career spanning 55 years he documented the famine in Ethiopia, civil war in Rhodesia...

G77 + China reaffirms support for Argentina over Falklands sovereignty and natural resources

Saturday, October 4th 2025 - 10:59 UTC Beyond the Falklands issue, the G77 + China declaration also addressed global economic challenges The Group of 77 + China has reiterated its “strong support” for Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the...

Tyneside in the 1980s: 10 photographs of our region from across the decade

We step back in time to the 1980s - what are your memories of the decade, good and bad? In the news, world leaders Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev regularly appeared in the headlines; Britain went to war with Argentina over...

Local charity raffles off teddy bear that's spent the year with the Armed Forces

Since then he has visited 29 Squadron (RAF Typhoon Display Team) for a day, has flown with the RAF Red Arrows to Scotland and back whilst they did a week's training up there. He has flown on A400's and voyagers from Brize Norton where they took...

Legislative Assembly discuss youth mental health

Falkland Islands Government Mental Health Strategy was put under the spotlight in the latest meeting of the Legislative Assembly. MLA Mark Pollard questioned Deputy Portfolio holder for Health and Social Services MLA Gavin Short on the progress...

Veterans who lost their hearing settle legal claims for more than £700,000

Retired lieutenant colonel Andrew Davies is one of four former personnel to settle his claim (Image: Family handout/PA) Former British Army servicemen have settled legal claims against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over hearing loss suffered...

Veterans win hearing loss payout of £700k in MoD test case

A former British Army officer said there had been “failures to protect service personnel” as he and another former serviceman settled legal claims against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over hearing loss suffered during their service for more than...

Charity raffles off teddy bear that's spent the year with the Armed Forces

Since then he has visited 29 Squadron (RAF Typhoon Display Team) for a day, has flown with the RAF Red Arrows to Scotland and back whilst they did a week's training up there. He has flown on A400's and voyagers from Brize Norton where they took...

‘Through our connection with Beyon Group, Sure is a truly global business’

Sponsored content Sure is investing millions of pounds in local connectivity backed by the global knowledge, expertise and scale of the Beyon group. Sure Group chief executive Alistair Beak and Beyon chief executive Andrew Kvålseth tell JEP...

Prince William's secret visit to Britain's elite special boat service revealed

The Prince of Wales carried out a low-key visit to a maritime special forces unit on Tuesday, an entry in the Court Circular has revealed. Prince William visited the headquarters of the Special Boat Service (SBS), which is the Royal Navy's answer...