Eva Fipps. Image Credit: KMTV 3 News Now Eva Fipps stepped into local government at an age when many people are still deciding what they want to study or do after college. At 20, she became mayor of Henderson, a small town in southwest Iowa with 144 residents. Her election has drawn attention because she…
In April 2026, content creator Zachery Dereniowski, known online as MDMotivator, sat outside a grocery store in Austin, Texas, with a birthday cake and a blindfold, waiting to see who would stop for a stranger. Person after person walked past until a man named Elvin stopped to check on him. Elvin, a father and grandfather…
Alaska’s Hawadax Island, once known as Rat Island, offers one of conservation’s clearest success stories. Invasive Norway rats, accidentally introduced by 18th-century shipwrecks and wartime shipping traffic, wiped out nesting seabirds and unravelled the island’s rocky intertidal food web for two centuries. In 2008, scientists carried out a full eradication, removing every rat from the…
Saudi Arabia calls Mecca attack a ‘red line’ as Houthis dismiss it as ‘worn-out lie’ Saudi Arabia‘s air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone just south of Mecca on Tuesday before it could enter the holy city’s restricted airspace.Saudi military spokesperson Turki al-Malki described the security of the holy sites and pilgrims as a…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels march during a mobilization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo) The United States has advised its citizens to reconsider travel to Saudi Arabia amid renewed security threats from Iranian missile and drone attacks, armed conflict and terrorism. It also issued a separate Level 4 “Do Not Travel” warning for the Yemen border.“Reconsider…
Along Utah’s scenic Mirror Lake Highway, a large restoration project is showing why forest management is about more than planting trees or clearing brush. The recently completed Upper Provo Stewardship Project treated 3,873 acres across the Upper Provo Watershed, combining juniper removal, conifer thinning, hazard tree work, aspen enhancement and wetland restoration. The value of…
PC: Wing-Chi Poon/ Wikipedia A prairie planted on a former cornfield in Illinois has shown how a carefully planned restoration can develop over time. At Nachusa Grasslands, a 6.25-acre field was converted into reconstructed prairie as restoration began in 2008, using seed collected from 176 species suited to dry-mesic, mesic, and wet-mesic habitats. Additional seed…
In 2021, Tyler Chambers, 59, purchased 66 acres in rural Chelan County, Washington, with his wife, Wendy, planning to construct a home. The land they bought seemed perfect: it was zoned residential, had power, PUD water, fibre and paved-road access, with other homes nearby. Everything looked promising for the small-business owner from a farming family….
Representative Image (AI-generated) A bottle tossed away in New Orleans does not necessarily have to end its life in a landfill. A project launched in 2020 is giving discarded glass a second purpose; crushing bottles into sand that can be used in coastal restoration. Glass Half Full, founded by Tulane University students Franziska Trautmann and…
Civil Defence workers attempt to rescue people trapped beneath the rubble of a residential building that had been damaged in an earlier Israeli strike during the war and collapsed on Wednesday, in Gaza City. At least 10 Palestinians, including children, were killed after a six-storey apartment building collapsed in western Gaza City overnight, with dozens…