For thousands of years, the Bolson tortoise had been missing from the grasslands of New Mexico. Then a private ranch offered the species something it had not had in generations: space to start again. What began with just 30 captive tortoises grew into a population of roughly 800 through a long-running conservation effort backed by…
Rocky Mountain National Park (Image Credit: National Park Service) For more than 80 years, fish were deliberately introduced into the waters that would become Rocky Mountain National Park. According to the National Park Service (NPS), more than 20 million fish were stocked in waters that are now part of Rocky Mountain National Park between 1886…
Canadian police constable Sukhvinder “Suki” Singh Sunger. Canadian police constable Sukhvinder “Suki” Singh Sunger has made history at the 2026 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo by becoming the first turbaned Sikh Drum Major to lead a performance at the iconic event in Scotland.Sunger, a member of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), led the Vancouver Police Pipe…
William Shakespeare (Image: Wikipedia) Two people can look at their own life story and understand its shape in completely different ways. One sees a single, continuous identity, the same person carrying the same fixed role from beginning to end, expected to remain recognisably consistent throughout. The other sees something closer to a sequence of distinct…
Milo Yiannopoulos appears on Piers Morgan Uncensored after his ICE arrest followed by his deportation to the UK. Brotosh far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos who was deported from the US to the UK on allegations of visa overstay broke his silence on the ordeal and said he would challenge the removal. The former fanboy of President…
Lindsay Clancy looks at the jurors seated in the courtroom during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool) A 56-year-old Massachusetts woman was arrested outside Plymouth Superior Court after she was allegedly caught photographing or filming jurors in the Lindsay Clancy…
Little Lady is set to be moved to the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway for repairs (Vineyard Gazette photo) A wooden fishing boat built in 1929 is nearing a major restoration on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The vessel, Little Lady, is the sole remaining wooden fishing dragger in New England and has been part of the…
In 2013, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G Allen committed $7 million to one of the largest efforts ever undertaken to determine how many African elephants remained in the wild. Known as the Great Elephant Census, the project was led by Elephants Without Borders and involved scientists, conservation organisations, pilots and wildlife authorities across the…
Credit : Courtesy of Dr. Howard A. Rubin; Chris Kiely/Jump Visual When Howard and Suze Rubin, both 77, left their warm and cosy home in Florida for New York, they weren’t looking for a high-flying life in NYC. In fact, they moved to NYC for the weather. But they weren’t the ones chasing the cooler…
The site was decommissioned. However, contamination remains underground. In 1967, the United States tried an unusual method to increase natural gas production. It detonated a 29-kiloton device and had an explosoion 4,227 feet below the ground in north-western New Mexico to stimulate the flow of natural gas.According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), the…