The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures taken on Wednesday, more than a week after it imploded in the depths of the Atlantic

Debris from the Titan was brought ashore by deep-sea robots on Wednesday as the US Coast Guard continues recovery operations following the sub’s catastrophic implosion.

The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures after the Coast Guard announced on 22 June that ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles) found its chambers in a sea of debris 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic, roughly 12,000ft below the ocean surface.

Pelagic Research Services, the company that operated the ROV that made the previous debris findings, said on Wednesday that its team had successfully completed off-shore operations and was now in the process of demobilisation after 10 days of work. The company said a press conference will be held later in the day.

Photos from the wharf show what appear to be several pieces of the submersible being lifted from the ship, including the nose cone with its distinctive circular window. The pieces were unloaded from the American ships Sycamore and Horizon Arctic at a port in St John’s, Newfoundland.

“We are not able to provide any additional information at this time as the investigation is ongoing,” said Liam MacDonald, a spokesperson for the TSB said.

The CEO of the company that operated the Titan, Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman were aboard the Titan when it imploded last week.

The submersible lost contact with its mothership Polar Prince just one hour and 45 minutes into its descent to the wreck of the Titanic on 18 June, sparking a frantic four-day search. Canadian, American and French marine authorities and experts combed large portions of the ocean hoping to find signs of life, before the tragic developments on 22 June.

The Coast Guard said last week that the US Navy had detected sounds that matched an “implosion or explosion” sometime after the sub vanished and before rescue efforts were launched. Rescue efforts continued at the time because the information was not definitive, the Coast Guard said.

An international group of agencies is now investigating what may have caused the submersible to implode, and US maritime officials say they’ll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide.

The Coast Guard said over the weekend that salvage operations were ongoing, but recovery of the bodies will be difficult due to the “unforgiving condition” on the ocean floor. A final report will be issued by the International maritime Organisation.

Cambridge University is going to be using new bins, 3D scanners and 22 miles (35km) of conveyor belts in a bid to increase recycling from 50% to 80%.

Staff and students will get two bins to choose from – one for food waste and the other for dry mixed waste.

The university said the “pioneering” project would be “the first of its kind in the UK higher education sector”.

A spokesman said the university was “committed to exceptional environmental performance”.

The university said in a statement: “Waste will be cleanly sorted into recyclables after it is collected, to reduce confusion and unintentional contamination of materials.

“Food waste will be converted into energy at an anaerobic digestion facility, and the dry mixed waste will be separated into recyclables at a pioneering Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) that can identify and sort recyclables with advanced precision.

“The MRF (run by company Mountain Recycling) uses 22 miles (35km) of conveyor belts and sorting technology including 2D and 3D scanners, and near infra-red separators.”

It further said all of the university’s dry mixed waste collections would be made by electric vehicles.

“In another UK-first, the university’s stock of new wheelie bins are made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic collected from the local area. These bins can be recycled a further 10 times,” it said.

Speaking about the project, which starts in July, Steve Matthews, facilities management operations manager, said: “The new system will allow us to recycle far more materials than before which will make a positive contribution to protecting the environment.”

More than 170 million Americans are under either heat or air quality alerts as wildfire smoke and scorching temperatures continue to plague the US.

Air quality across a large swatch of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic has been deemed “unhealthy” by health officials.

Meanwhile, in the west, cities including Las Vegas and Phoenix are bracing for temperatures of up above 43C (110F) this weekend.

At least a dozen people have died of heat-related causes in recent days.

The poor air quality has been attributed to over 500 active wildfires in Canada that have sent smoke plumes south, even as conditions have improved slightly in parts of the Midwest.

On Friday, the country’s worst air quality was expected across a vast tract of land stretching from Michigan and Ohio to the East Coast.

The worst air quality in the US at approximately 09:00 local time (14:00 BST) on Friday was in New York City, followed by Washington DC, Detroit and Chicago, according to IQAir.com.

The Environmental Protection Agency said air in these area was either “unhealthy for sensitive groups” – which include the elderly, young children and outdoor workers – or “unhealthy”.

Authorities have declared a state-wide air quality advisory that will remain in effect through Friday. Governor Kathy Hochul urged that New Yorkers “take precautions to protect their health”.

In the Washington DC area, concerns over air quality prompted the cancellation of dozens of outdoor events and a warning from local health authorities to avoid strenuous outdoor activities and to consider wearing a mask when outside.

Meanwhile, in the western US, millions of people in Nevada, Arizona and California can expect excessive heat warnings beginning on Saturday, with temperatures in some places expected to rise to 43C.

In Texas, which has seen temperatures above 37C for nearly two weeks, temperatures have begun to drop. Eleven people have reportedly died of heat-related causes in the state’s Webb County, which is centred on the city of Laredo along the Mexican border.

“Although a few locations across Central and East Texas may reach advisory criteria, the prevalence of 105F [43C] heat indices will be far less widespread, and our protracted stretch of advisories/warnings for heat will come to an end,” the National Weather Service said in a bulletin.

Storms that are expected in other parts of the south are also expected to bring temperatures down over Saturday and Sunday.

Over 700 people die heat-related deaths each year, according to CDC statistics, with another 68,000 people sent to emergency rooms.

Heatwaves have become more frequent, intense and last longer because of human-induced climate change, scientists say.

Some have warned that climate change is also likely to lead to more wildfires and subsequent smoke warnings.

A University of California – Irvine study published on 12 June, for example, found that “an increase in temperatures and dryness has been identified to be one of the major drivers” of summer forest fires.

Adulis, also known as Aduli, is an ancient archaeological site which is located in the northern part of the Red Sea, and it is officially nowadays in the central coastal part of the State of Eritrea.

Serving mainly as a port that had high importance during the antiquity period, it is best known for its role in the trade during the rule of the Kingdom of Aksum, with its peak being between 4 and 7 century.

As the city was connected to Aksum in Ethiopia by a mountainous route via the other Eritrean ancient city of Qohaito, Adulis is considered to have been a port that was used as an excellent connection to India through which luxuries such as ivory, tortoise-shell and rhinoceros horn have been shipped throughout the rest of the world.

Henry Salt in 1810 was the first person that identified the archaeological site, although there are some sources which suggest that it was discovered during a French mission to Eritrea under Vignaud and Petit which occurred in 1840.

Still, throughout the years, there have been numerous archaeological excavations by the colonial powers which uncovered the bigger part of Adulis, and which have pointed out that Adulis might not have been part of the Axumite Kingdom, but another kingdom that was not a constituent part of Axum.

When the historians will agree to which kingdom exactly Adulis belonged it is unclear, nonetheless, there are high hopes that the excavated artifacts from the site will be brought back to Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, where they could be displayed so that every visitor of this small nation in East Africa would be able to see the parts of the ancient history of the country.

Even in recent years, there have been plenty of gold and silver coinage, glass, marble, decorated pottery unearthed here, which proves that Adulis is still rich in archeological findings.

All in all, it might not be as big as the most visited or more famous archaeological sites, Adulis will continue to baffle archeologists as to which kingdom it actually belonged, with hope that UNESCO will recognize the importance and put it on the famous World Heritage Sites List.