Aviation will become one of the world’s largest emitting sectors by 2050. Millions of flights take off and touch down around our planet every single year, and all parts of the industry must act to fix our changing climate.

As an industry, aviation is inherently global in nature, and this makes it one of the most challenging modes of transport to de-carbonize. But the UK is intent on rising to that challenge, and our Jet Zero Strategy set out our vision for an aviation sector which reaches net zero emissions by 2050.

On Thursday, February 2, a fire broke out on one of the staircases of the Icon of the Seas cruise ship, which is currently under construction at Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland.

The fire alarm was sounded at around 10 a.m., and as a precautionary measure, all 2,500 workers on board were evacuated. The fire was quickly contained and put out by the shipyard’s own fire brigade.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- A fire at one of the nation’s enriched uranium processing facilities did not result in the release of radioactivity, according to officials at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Officials at Y-12 notified city officials, legislators and media that emergency response teams were handling an “incident” at a building on the western side of the Y-12 complex.

A fire at a chemical plant threatened to collapse a cooling tower, pushing fears of a “a significant fire and explosion,” according to local Sydney, Australia, news sources.

Emergency services were called to the Qenos manufacturing plant in Denison St, Banksmeadow after reports of a fault in the cooling tower.

Significant structural damage to the timber reinforcing the cooling tower raised concerns that the tower itself could collapse and cause a larger explosion.

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The fire alarm system had been off when a two-alarm fire happened at an Alexandria high-rise, according to the Alexandria Fire Department.

The fire happened in the 5300 block of Holmes Run Parkway. Arriving units found a fire in a unit on the fourth floor and requested a second alarm. The unit had been unoccupied when the fire occurred. Units from Arlington and Fairfax County provided assistance with the fire.

TOPEKA, Kan. -- What looked a bit like snow on a street outside a Topeka hospital’s emergency department was actually foam from a fire-suppression system that had gathered along a curb, authorities said.

Topeka Fire Department crews responded to a report of an automatic fire alarm at Stormont Vail Hospital, near S.W. 8th and Washburn Avenue.

Topeka Fire Marshal Alan Stahl said that when crews arrived, they found the water-and-foam fire-suppression system for the helicopter landing pad above the emergency room had “unintentionally activated.”

Donna Reis and Jon Wilkerson are among the hundreds of people displaced recently by two separate fires at an Arapahoe County condominium complex. The couple, who’ve shared the same one-bedroom residence for the past 30 years, say it’s unlikely that they’ll return.

Their condominium didn’t burn in the Feb. 1 fire at Club Valencia, in the 1300 block of South Parker Road, but smoke damage, and remediation of asbestos after the fire, has shut down their residence and an entire building for an undetermined length of time.

Not many chief executive officers can oversee a more than $50 billion plunge in a company’s market value and keep their jobs. And yet 3M Co.’s Michael Roman is coming up on his five-year anniversary as CEO of the industrial conglomerate with no clear, imminent resolution to serious legal quagmires and no expectation that the company’s performance will improve materially anytime soon.The rout in 3M’s stock since Roman officially took over the top job in July 2018 is worse than the slide in Boeing Co. shares during the same period, which included two fatal crashes, a worldwide grounding of its best-selling 737 Max jet and a global pandemic that brought air travel to a virtual halt. It’s the second-worst performance by any member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 3M’s market capitalization is now about $60 billion — roughly what it was a decade ago even though the S&P 500 Index and the industrial subsector have both more than doubled in value.

In rare good news for the planet, Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover completely within decades, as ozone-depleting chemicals are phased out across the world, according to a new United Nations-backed assessment.

The ozone layer protects the planet from harmful ultraviolet rays. But since the late 1980s, scientists have sounded the alarm about a hole in this shield, caused by ozone-depleting substances including chlorofluorocarbons, dubbed CFCs, often found in refrigerators, aerosols and solvents.

International cooperation helped stem the damage. The use of CFCs has decreased 99% since the Montreal Protocol went into force in 1989, which began the phase-out of those and other ozone-harming chemicals, according to the assessment by a panel of experts.