Us envoy said that Trump “made it clear that any help that they would give Iran was totally unacceptable. US president Donald Trump called told Xi Jinping that China ‘helping Iran’ was unacceptable, during the China president’ Washington visit, said US Ambassador to China David Perdue on Friday.“We made it very clear to them weeks…
Woolper Creek in Boone County, near the planned sewer project (Photos: LINK nky) A Kentucky woman who spent 35 years turning her 45-acre property into a natural area is facing a major change to the land after a nearly $40 million sewer project secured easements across it. The Central Boone County Sewer project, being built…
A legal fight over homeownership and tax liens in Nebraska reached a major turning point when the state’s highest court revived a compensation claim from a couple who lost their mortgage-free home over a relatively small tax debt. Kevin Fair and his wife, Terry, owned a home in Scotts Bluff County with no mortgage or…
In 1921, Texas oil geologist Wallace Pratt travelled into a remote, wind-swept oasis in West Texas and fell in love with its tall limestone walls and bright autumn colours. Thirty-eight years later, his long love for McKittrick Canyon helped change the future of Texas conservation. Pratt gave his home and thousands of acres to the…
Volunteers excavating outside one of the huts identified within the settlement (Image: Lake District National Park) A group of 25 dedicated volunteers has revealed a rare Iron Age settlement in the Deepdale valley of the Lake District National Park. The find, known as the Deepdale Bridge Settlement, emerged as part of a wider survey of…
Heilbronner, the widow of a Munich banker, lost the work as a result of racial persecution under the Nazi regime. After the war, its whereabouts remained unclear for decades, leaving the ownership history unresolved. More than eight decades after Nazi persecution tore a painting from the home of Sofie Heilbronner, the 19th-century work has finally…
Suhas Subramanyam addressed the latest NRI controversy going around him. Indian-origin Democrat Rep. Suhas Subramanyam directly addressed the viral claims against him doing the rounds on social media that he helped Tamil people who are not even in his district. An anti-H-1 B activist Nick Plumb shared some screenshots that he said he got from…
(Image credit: Masato Hattori) More than three decades after a partial ankylosaur skull was first discovered in a Hokkaido riverbank deposit, researchers have formally named it as a new genus and species, Nipponopelta yezoensis, the first ankylosaur ever formally named from Japan. The study, ‘A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Hikagenosawa…
A quarry in Florennes, Wallonia, is combining solar power with sheep farming in a 3.3-hectare agrivoltaic project. Calcaires Agri Énergie, in partnership with Ether Energy, developed the project, which places 3,240 photovoltaic panels above land used for sheep grazing. The panels have a total capacity of 2.27 MWc and are raised above the ground with…
The seeds that NASA sent to space in 1984, returned to Earth six years later in 1990 and had to be distributed among students as plant kits. What lies behind this statement is a tale of space motion that many remain unaware of. The mission was to determine whether exposure to the space environment would…
