Miniature stone castle and rock structures in Springfield When Harry George “Ben” Hartman lost his job as an iron moulder at the Springfield Machine Tool Company during the Great Depression, he picked up a trowel and began digging a small concrete fishing pond in his backyard. That simple project soon grew across his entire residential…

A 7,000-acre cattle ranch in Kansas has found an unusual way to generate a steady income alongside traditional ranching. Pete Ferrell, a fourth-generation rancher, hosts 50 industrial wind turbines on his property as part of the 100-turbine Elk River Wind Project, a 150-megawatt facility that began operating in 2005. The turbines do not replace the…

Flooded iron mine pit turned clear lake Thirty-three years after local authorities took control of thousands of acres of damaged land, a former mining centre in central Minnesota has completed one of the Midwest’s most striking ecological transformations. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR) established the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area in 1993,…

Photo: A map of Lechuguilla Cave in July 2019Photo credit: NPS For decades, Lechuguilla Cave was just a footnote in New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains: a 90-foot entrance pit leading to 400 feet of dry, dead-end passages that had once been mined for bat guano. But in the 1950s, cavers began noticing something strange: wind roaring…

Trump said US is considering to change the name of Lake Ontario. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States was “giving serious consideration” to renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, amid escalating trade dispute with Canada.In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the…