Canadian fugitive wanted since 1991 arrested in Californi. A Canadian man wanted for more than three decades in connection with child sexual assault allegations has been arrested in California by US federal immigration authorities.Charles Peter Billone, 64, was taken into custody in Santa Cruz by officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) San…
Niagara River AOC Habitat Restoration and Sediment Remediation Work Four years after Buffalo completed a groundbreaking fish ladder along the Niagara River to help native emerald shiners migrate, environmental crews are expanding the design to open an important route to Lake Erie.Work is underway to extend special steel baffles along another 700 feet of the…
Synrian Ex-president Bashar Assad (2019 photo) A Syrian criminal court in Damascus has sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after finding him guilty of killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and crimes against humanity committed during the country’s nearly 14-year civil war. The verdict, delivered on Tuesday, August 11, marks the first conviction against…
South Fork Skagit River estuary (Image Credit: Instagram/ @thewdfw) Washington has begun a major restoration project aimed at returning 270 acres in the South Fork Skagit River estuary to natural intertidal and marsh habitat. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), construction on the Island Unit Restoration Project began in June 2026…
In California’s Mojave Desert, Calico now appears as a quiet collection of weathered buildings surrounded by dry hills and open scrubland. Its setting gives little indication that the settlement once supported a busy mining community. That changed in 1881, when prospectors discovered silver in the mountains nearby and the area quickly attracted miners, traders, labourers…
Twitch has named ExtraEmily as one of its newest Ambassadors, but the decision has quickly caused a new wave of criticism from streamers. The platform announced its latest group of Ambassadors saying, “Meet MORE of the Ambassador Crew.” Twitch says its Ambassadors are creators who represent the platform, support positive change and help build its…
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, the Amondawa have offered linguists an unusual glimpse of what life looks like when time is not treated as something that can be counted. In their language, researchers found no numerical calendar system built around familiar units such as weeks, months and years. Instead, daily life is organised around events,…
The American West did not suddenly run out of water, the crisis built slowly. Around 2000, a prolonged drought began spreading across the region, with dry conditions returning year after year and leaving less moisture in the ground. Reservoirs fell, vegetation struggled and the effects of each dry season began adding to the losses of…
PC: Wikipedia, Wilson44691 – Own work, Public Domain About 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, a year lasted roughly 372 days rather than 365, meaning each day was around half an hour shorter than it is today. The research team examined the growth layers of a single fossilised rudist bivalve, Torreites sanchezi,…
Zelensky urged the US to sell Ukraine 5-10% of its Patriot interceptor stockpile to counter Russian ballistic missile attacks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the United States to sell Ukraine more Patriot interceptor missiles, saying even 5% of the US stockpile would help Kyiv survive the winter, while 10% could allow it to counter…