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A routine land-clearing project in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, turned into a costly property dispute after workers hired to prepare land for a solar farm mistakenly cut more than 30 trees belonging to a neighbouring landowner. The property boundaries had reportedly been surveyed and marked before the work began, but the tree-service workers apparently misunderstood…

The study also points to the importance of behavioural experiments in the natural environment. Sound does not behave the same way inside tanks, and the reflections from walls can create complicated acoustic patterns that can make an animal’s response difficult to interpret. The ocean can hide an entire world beyond the reach of sight. For…

In 1925, a hydrothermal explosion reshaped Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin (Image Credit: U.S. Geological Survey) A century-old mystery at Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin has turned out to be less about a missing geyser and more about a misplaced sign. In 1925, a hydrothermal explosion dramatically altered part of the basin, but because nobody witnessed the event, the…

In total, 133 trees on Deal’s property had been felled. (Representational photo) A Kansas appeals court on Friday, upheld a $6,500 damages award against a man whose fence-building project led to 133 trees being cut on a neighbour’s property in 2015. According to legal research website Justia, the court rejected several challenges raised by accused…

Abbate said he spent several hours each day looking after the plant (Giant Pumpkins British Columbia photo) A giant pumpkin grown by Kelowna resident Jordan Abbate won the 2026 B C Giant Pumpkin Contest in Langley, on Saturday, with just one pound separating the top two entries. Abbate’s pumpkin weighed 1,485 pounds, while Team Halliday’s…

More than 220 people have died in the US strikes on such vessels in the ⁠Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, Reuters reported. The US military on Sunday struck a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing four individuals it called “narco-terrorists”.The “lethal kinetic” strike was executed by the Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere under the direction…

Pic credit: Sotheby’s International Realty Jonathan Kelly, who made a fortune selling Squishmallows, the plush toys, has now put his Bel-Air mansion on the market for nearly $38 million, according to a report by Realtor.com. Pic credit: Sotheby’s International Realty During the pandemic, the Squishmallows craze took TikTok by storm, turning the once-niche toys into…

JUICE captures images of Earth during its flybyPhoto: ESA.int ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, used Earth’s gravity as a cosmic slingshot on September 28, 2026, reshaping its route to Jupiter while conserving precious fuel. Flying just 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean, the spacecraft had its trajectory deflected by 20 degrees and…

PC: Nelida Pohl/ BBC Wildlife Antarctica has only two native flowering plants, and both have spent years facing a warmer environment. A new seven-year field study found that Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) responded to long-term warming in different ways. Researchers placed open-top chambers around plants on King George Island to…

File photo: A flydubai aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport A string of security failures across Oman, the UAE and Israel allowed the flydubai co-pilot to get into the cockpit, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The lapses nearly led to an aviation disaster reminiscent of 9/11, despite authorities having reasons to be concerned…