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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…

USCIS officer arrested for charging money for approving immigration applications. A former US Citizenship and Immigration Services officer has been arrested in Texas after federal authorities accused him of taking illegal payments in exchange for manipulating immigration decisions and speeding up applications. Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, a former senior immigration services officer with USCIS, and Adeniyi…

Pic courtesy: X/NFL Flag San Diego Girls in San Antonio are proving that football isn’t just for boys. Flag football is giving them an opportunity to play, compete, earn scholarships, and possibly build a future in the sport! When the Alamo City Lady Roadrunners flag football organisation started last year, there were only five girls…

UK Anti-migrant protest: cops injured and several vehicle damaged/Image: AP Several police officers were injured and vehicles belonging to police, Coastguard and Border Force were damaged after an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth turned violent following the arrival of about 140 migrants by boat.Hundreds of people gathered in the English coastal city on Sunday after two…

File photo: US President Donald Trump TOI correspondant from Washington: Somewhere between George Washington on horseback, a lunar conquest, and another imaginary demolition of Iran’s Kharg Island, the United States Presidency appeared to relocate from the White House to an AI image generator for several hours on Sunday.MAGA boss Donald Trump spent much of Sunday…

The town was flooded as part of a massive water project in California but its legacy has been much harder to wash away. Beneath the waters of Lake Berryessa rests the ghost town of Monticello, preserved in fragments: its roads, foundations and historic bridge still visible beneath the surface while photographs and memories keep its…

Published in Science Advances, the study draws on comparisons of biological brains and experiments on artificial neural networks to suggest a new framework for understanding the evolution of intelligence. For decades, the human brain was like some evolutionary skyscraper: ancient instincts on the bottom, emotions in the middle, and sophisticated reasoning on the top. That’s…