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A Colorado family has protected a 684-acre historic ranch after more than 90 years of family stewardship, ensuring that its agricultural landscape, water resources, wildlife habitat and historic character can remain safeguarded for generations. Known as Ute Ranch, the property in western Montrose County has been placed under a permanent conservation easement through the Colorado…

It was anchored overnight before specialist crews began the operation to sink it South Australia has sunk the 40-metre MV Andrew Wilson about six kilometres off the coast of Brighton, turning the retired vessel into an artificial reef. The ship now rests upright 20 metres below the surface on the sandy ocean floor.According to the…

Far below the surface of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, where sunlight disappears and fishing grounds give way to deep water, three unusual fish specimens had been sitting in scientific collections for years. They would eventually become the basis for describing a species unknown to science. At the centre of that work was Naidely Valeria Vidaurre-Quesada,…

Image: Left/Carter in 1932; at age 7/Right/Official portrait, 1977/Wikipedia​ Well before he took office as the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter spent many years on a Georgia farm, where mornings were usually before the break of dawn. Carter grew up in the small community of Archery, close to Plains, where he participated…

South American tapir. Image Credit: Charles J. Sharp/Wikipedia A former cattle landscape in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has been transformed into a thriving wildlife refuge through years of restoration and the planting of native trees. At the Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve in Rio de Janeiro State, land that was once cleared and used for grazing has gradually…

What happens to a takeaway coffee cup after the last sip? In most cases, it ends up in landfill because the thin waterproof lining inside the cup makes conventional recycling difficult. In Australia, however, thousands of these discarded cups have found a very different second life: as part of the material used to build roads.In…

Pakistan warns Houthis that its defence alliance with Saudi Arabia and Turkey Pakistan warned Tuesday that its newly formed defence alliance with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye could be activated if the conflict in Yemen spills into Saudi territory, saying there should be “no ambiguity” that an attack on any one of the three members would…

Forty-five kilometres off the Belgian coast, in the middle of the North Sea, humans are creating something that did not naturally exist in the water. It is the world’s first artificial energy island the size of eight football fields, being built with 23 giant concrete caissons, each weighing approximately 22,000 tons. While one might assume…

Ancient Polish burial reveals man with 2 skulls, 42-tooth necklace and battle axe (Image Credit: X/ @sputnik_brasil) Archaeologists investigating a Roman-period cemetery in Poland made an unexpected discovery when they came across a burial that was thousands of years older than the surrounding graves. Instead of a Roman-era burial, they found the nearly complete skeleton…