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Representative Image of a vast green belt encircling the Taklamakan Desert, showcasing ecological restoration and expanding vegetation (AI-generated image) In November 2024, China completed a 3,046-kilometre green belt around the Taklamakan Desert, filling the final gaps in a project that has been under construction for decades. The belt forms part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Program,…

Earthquake strikes Tibet (representative image) An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck Tibet on Thursday, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).The quake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.The earthquake struck as rescue and recovery operations continued in Tibet following catastrophic flooding near the Gyirong border crossing with Nepal…

In Ohio’s Grove City, a proposed charter amendment has sparked a fight that doesn’t seem to end. Residents and leaders are clashing on two sides, with one saying the amendment would protect the city and others saying it would destroy its economic prospects. What highlights the conflict is that it is a microcosm of a…

For 529 days, Valerie, the miniature dachshund, lived away from her family on Kangaroo Island after she went missing during a holiday. Georgia Gardner and Joshua Fishlock were staying at Stokes Bay with their one-year-old dog when they realised she was no longer at their campsite on November 13, 2023. They searched for her with…

FBI receives nearly 3,000 internet crime complaints a day on average A retired nurse, Susan Bivins, was tricked into sending more than $200,000 to a scammer who pretended to be a federal agent. Bivins said she reported the fraud to the FBI and local police, but did not receive the help she had hoped for….

The protests follow the mass crossing of migrants from Morocco into Ceuta on July 30 and 31 (Photo: Reuters). Thousands of people took to the streets across Spain on Wednesday including the coastal city of Ceuta to protest the government’s handling of a mass influx of migrants into the Spanish exclave on the North African…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A river can carry a contaminant far beyond the point where it enters the water, but predicting exactly how quickly that material will travel is not always straightforward. In 2010, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), working with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, conducted a dye-tracing experiment on a 41.2-mile…

The home’s architecture is closely tied to its terrain. Instead of imposing a conventional rectangular floor plan on the sloping site, Olsen organized the house across a series of split levels. There are homes that are valued for their size, homes prized for their views, and homes that become significant because of the people who…

A Winnipeg woman who rescued a child and her father from drowning in the Red River on August 24 near St. John’s Park is being called a hero, but she said she doesn’t feel like one.“I’m just a mom. I don’t feel like a hero,” Jayclyn Morrissette, 32, told CBC. Woman saves two lives Representative…

​George Woolf on Seabiscuit (Image: Wikipedia) For years, Ridgewood Ranch in Mendocino County, California, was known primarily as the place where Seabiscuit, one of America’s most famous racehorses, spent his retirement. After a remarkable racing career, the champion arrived at the ranch in 1940, where he lived until his death in 1947. But the property’s…