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Robert Moran, former mayor of Seattle and shipbuilding magnate was told in 1905, that he only had a few months to live. Resolved to spend his last days peacefully, he sold his business interests for $3.5 million ($126 million in 2025) and moved to Orcas Island where he eventually acquired about 7,000 acres of forest….

According to estimates, 30% of temples in Japan may disappear by 2040. The cause of the event will not be some extravagant sci-fi catastrophe or a predicted public uprising but the decrease in religiosity. Against this backdrop, it seems monks in the country have turned to shake hands with AI and use it to turn…

​Representative Image of a solar farm integrated with thriving wildlife habitats, vibrant flora, and diverse fauna (AI-generated image) In 2011, planning began for a solar farm on the Broxted Estate in Suffolk, and by December 2013, the site was generating electricity for the first time. But what happened around the panels proved just as significant…

As of 2026, 12 malls have been restored. (Picture: BMA) In the middle of Manhattan, Broadway’s green medians are being transformed into a connected habitat for birds, bees and other urban wildlife. The Broadway Mall Association (BMA), a nonprofit organisation, is replanting the city’s Broadway malls with native plants as part of a long-term project…

Astronomers have found what is currently the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint star racing through the extreme environment around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Called S301, the star reaches a staggering speed of about 15,500 miles per second, or 25,000 kilometres per second, which…

A building burns in Kyiv following overnight Russian strikes, as emergency crews respond across the Ukrainian capital. (Photo: @ZelenskyyUa) At least six people were killed and 33 wounded in Kyiv after Russia launched an overnight missile barrage that damaged residential buildings and public facilities as explosions continued across the capital into Thursday morning.In the Solomianskyi…

Vietnam’s government has proposed reducing the number of offences punishable by death to four under a draft criminal code. Vietnam’s government has proposed reducing the number of offences punishable by death to four under a draft criminal code, little more than a year after the country removed capital punishment for eight other crimes.Under the new…

As Bluewater spent more time on Protection Island, he wanted to make it his permanent home. (Picture: Facebook) On Washington State’s Protection Island, Marty Bluewater has an unusual kind of neighbourhood. Gulls fly over the sandy bluffs, harbour seals rest on the beach and tufted puffins can be seen in the water. There are no…

The air force major had previously been arrested too for criticising Trump A US Air Force major who was arrested last month after calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment has been detained again, days after criticising the president.Major Jason Watson was ordered into pretrial confinement on Tuesday, an Air Force spokesperson told CNN. He is…

For millions of years, birds have been changing in ways that are difficult to see from the present day. A skeleton in a museum may look like a fixed record of one species, but taken together, thousands of specimens can reveal how bodies changed across vast stretches of time. That is what a team at…