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Anne LaBastille built a 12-by-12-foot cabin deep in New York’s Adirondacks with no electricity, plumbing or road; she spent decades living in the wilderness and her 32-acre home is now protected forever

There was no electricity. No running water. No telephone. No road leading to the property. Deep in New York’s Adirondack wilderness, Anne LaBastille chose to build a life that most people would have considered impossibly difficult. In 1964, she built a tiny 12-by-12-foot log cabin on the shore of Twitchell Lake, creating a home where…

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Robin Williams built a 640-acre Napa estate with a 20,000-sq-ft mansion; after years on the market, it sold for $18.1 million after being listed for $35 million | World News

Robin Williams’ Napa Valley estate, known as Villa Sorriso, was an extraordinary private retreat that combined a vast mountain property with a mansion of nearly 20,000 square feet. Williams commissioned the estate in the early 2000s, creating a secluded compound spread across about 640 acres in the Mayacamas Mountains between Napa and Sonoma valleys. The…

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Not just Nepal: How climate change puts European Alps under threat of glacial retreat and rock fall

Tourists look at the Mont-Blanc massif mountains and the ‘Mer de Glace’ glacier at the Montenvers station in Chamonix, France (Photo: AP). Climate change is increasingly becoming a threat to the snow-clad European Alps, amid initial investigations associating the August 26 Nepal tragedy with rising temperatures.Average temperatures in July, on the Aiguille du Midi peak,…

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Around 2000, a Florida tropical-fish collector hung rescued coral fragments from underwater “trees”; the small nursery grew into a reef-restoration network |

An AI-generated image of coral restoration workers growing staghorn coral fragments on underwater “coral trees” in a nursery in the Florida Keys. Credits – Google Gemini  Both the deterioration of the Florida Keys reef and the response to it took time. Staghorn and elkhorn corals grew so numerous throughout the Florida Reef Tract for decades…

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EV sales jump 53% on PVs, 2-wheelers

NEW DELHI: India’s electric-vehicle retail sales rose 53% year-on-year in Aug, powered by strong gains in electric two-wheelers and passenger vehicles, although a sequential decline pointed to uneven momentum across manufacturers.Retail sales across electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles totalled 2,98,448 units, compared with 1,95,250 units in Aug 2025, according to Federation of…

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Copper hits all-time high, Brent nears century mark

MUMBAI: Copper and crude oil, two important industrial raw materials for several industries, are on a tear. According to notes from Vedanta and ICICI Securities, a combination of factors like tightening mine supply, especially from Chile, shifting global trade flows amid potential US tariffs on refined copper, and accelerating demand from electrification, renewable energy, power…

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Digital asset firms court sovereign funds

Digital asset firms court sovereign funds NEW DELHI: Digital asset firms will court sovereign investors at a Delhi roundtable this week as India pursues “faster, cheaper international payments” while insisting replacing the dollar is not on its agenda. Brics Digital Asset Round Table will gather 50 industry leaders.Organiser SWFI said iBrics summit investors manage $1…

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Husband died in 2006, and widow was paid PF and gratuity; she filed for pension in 2011 but window had closed in 2010, here’s what Delhi High Court said

The Delhi High Court said the communication in question did not establish the truth of Devi’s claim. Her husband passed away in 2006 and she was not eligible for family pension. However, the bank her husband worked at opened a one-time pension eligibility window some years later which the widow applied for after the last…

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