Nature recovery at Broughton Sanctuary Four years after moving 2,500 acres of North Yorkshire farmland away from intensive farming, conservation teams at Broughton Sanctuary have recorded more than 1,700 species and planted 330,000 trees across the estate. According to the Broughton Sanctuary State of Nature Recovery Report, published in December 2025, 80 per cent of…

Neil Young in concert November 9, 1976, in Austin, Texas. Image Credit: Mark Estabrook/Wikipedia In 1970, Neil Young made a life-changing purchase that would soon become part of rock music history. At a time when his career was gathering momentum the Canadian singer-songwriter spent $350,000 on a sprawling ranch in Northern California. The property, later…

The unruly passenger who was duct-taped to his seat on an American Airlines flight was fired from the company he was working with as the VP. 67-year-old Arthur Lundeen, the man who was duct-taped to his seat on an American Airlines flight after he created a nuisance, has been fired from the real estate company…

An Indiana tyre and bicycle business started by three brothers in 1918 is still operating under the same family ownership 108 years later. The business has also built an unusually loyal workforce, with several employees staying for more than four decades. A report published by local news outlet The Addison Times highlights the business’s long…

Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Image Credit: Par Margaret Donald/Wikipedia A stand of eucalyptus trees planted in Argentina’s vast ‘Pampas grasslands’ was found to be reshaping the water beneath its roots. A study titled ‘Hydrological consequences of Eucalyptus afforestation in the Argentine Pampas’ examined how a 40-hectare plantation of ‘Eucalyptus camaldulensis’ affected local groundwater compared with the surrounding…

One year after beavers were released into the wild at Studland in Dorset, their activity has dramatically reshaped part of the local landscape A pair of wild beavers released in Dorset have transformed a dense woodland into a bright, wetland habitat within just 12 months of arriving in their new home. Data shared by the…

Greta Ramirez-Guerrero was studying fragments of ancient life that had survived in Quebec rock for roughly 450 million years when she encountered an unusual problem: the animal she was examining had almost nothing that should have fossilised well. Paleocanna tentaculum was a soft-bodied relative of modern jellyfish, shaped more like a narrow tube than the…

On the pitch of Austria’s Klagenfurt’s Wörthersee Stadium, where footballers would normally chase a ball beneath floodlights, 299 mature trees once stood in near silence. In 2019, Swiss artist and curator Klaus Littmann transformed the Austrian arena into a temporary forest, replacing the familiar spectacle of sport with a landscape of birch, oak, hornbeam, willow…