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Local fishers collect waste from Guanabara Bay as part of a mangrove restoration and cleanup effort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Decades of pollution, untreated sewage, industrial activity and waste have placed heavy pressure on the mangroves around Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay in Brazil. Yet in one of the bay’s remaining protected mangrove areas,…

Tom Neale on Suwarrow: Highlights the story’s main protagonist living his solitary life on the remote Cook Islands atoll. A remote Pacific atoll that was once the solitary kingdom of a New Zealand sailor has secured a lasting future, transforming from a hermit’s retreat into the first conservation sanctuary in the Cook Islands. Suwarrow, an…

An Indian-origin man found dead at a Toronto home last week has been identified as a homicide victim, police said.Satwant “Sonny” Sangha, 41, of Toronto, was found deceased at a residence near McGill Street and Church Street in downtown Toronto, according to the Toronto Police.Officers were called to the property at around 1:43 am on…

The flooding started in 2008, and by 2014 the former mine had filled with about 70.5 billion liters of water, forming a lake 309 hectares in area and a maximum of 75 meters deep. Eventually the lake was opened for public recreation. What does it take to give a landscape carved by decades of coal…

Michael Schumacher (Image credit: F1) Two competitors can find themselves in a position with almost no realistic chance of success and respond to it in completely different ways. One does the rational-seeming thing and starts conserving effort, treating a nearly hopeless situation as effectively already decided. The other keeps pushing at full intensity regardless of…

Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) in Iceland. Image Credit: KMT/Youtube In 2009, a drilling operation in northeast Iceland unexpectedly punched into molten rock at Krafla, revealing one of the hottest geothermal resources ever reached by a borehole. The Iceland Deep Drilling Project(IDDP) had been searching for high-temperature geothermal energy, but instead of finding only hot water…

About 1,000 people in Japan joined forces on Sunday to help pull the roughly 400-ton keep of Hirosaki Castle back toward its original position, more than a decade after the historic structure was moved nearly 78 meters for repairs. Participants in Aomori Prefecture were divided into groups and used ropes to pull a cart carrying…

Authorities are asking people to report sightings and signs of the animals. (Photo: WWF Australia) Wallabies introduced to New Zealand more than a century ago have spread across more than 200,000 hectares in the country’s North Island. Authorities are now working to control their population because the animals can damage native forests, compete with farm…

When Karen Morad, a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Cairo, went on a Kenyan safari in June 2026, she experienced something she thought was impossible: “seeing” the animals around her despite being completely blind. That moment was made possible by ScribeMe, an AI-powered app created by her older brother, Mark, also blind, which turns a phone’s camera,…

In 1999, American teacher Ronald Sakolsky was teaching English in Luoyang, China, when a television report about Yin Yuzhen, a woman battling desertification in Inner Mongolia’s Mu Us Sandy Land, moved him deeply. He decided to help and spent about two months raising $5,000 through a US-based charity to support Yin’s tree-planting work. The money…