In South Jersey’s Middle Township, a war goes on. The township has filed an eminent domain condemnation complaint that seeks to acquire 2.4 acres of land in Whitesboro for a large-scale housing development project. But the woman who owns the property, Dawn Robinson, does not want to give it up, according to a report by…
At 86, Mervin Raudabaugh had a decision to make over 261 acres of Pennsylvania farmland he had spent decades working. The land had caught the attention of data-centre developers, who reportedly put forward offers exceeding $15 million, including one estimate of about $60,000 an acre. On paper, it was the kind of figure that could…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have bought a castle estate in Ireland that covers around 440 acres. The couple will use Strancally Castle in County Waterford as a home during their visits to the country, where Meta has its international headquarters. While the price of the private deal has not been…
When engineers lined canals across the dry American Southwest with concrete, they solved one problem while creating another. The hard surfaces helped stop precious water from disappearing into the soil, but they also stripped away the irregular edges, vegetation and sheltered spaces that aquatic life had used in the old earthen channels. Fish eventually returned,…
In a remote corner of Southcentral Alaska, state biologists carried out a dramatic restoration: they treated an entire lake with rotenone, a plant-derived piscicide, to wipe out an invasive population of northern pike. After the treatment, post-surveys confirmed the pike were gone. The next step was rebuilding what had been lost. In June 2013, the…
Along a quiet stretch of road in Maine, engineers buried something most people would expect to see in a scrapyard rather than beneath their tyres: about 20,000 discarded car tyres. The unusual experiment was designed to tackle two problems at once. Maine’s roads face a difficult seasonal cycle, with winter freezing the ground and spring…
A 16-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped inside a moving sleeper bus. NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old Class 11 student from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly gang-raped inside a moving sleeper bus after she boarded the vehicle seeking help while stranded in heavy rain, police said.The incident took place on the night of August 4 after the teenager,…
The National Park Service is examining whether a land exchange can be carried out under federal law A Nevada-based developer is seeking a land exchange that could allow a private road to be built through Yosemite National Park, giving access to an 83-acre property just outside the park. The Trump administration is considering the proposal,…
Photo via Instagram/ X/ Pamela Anderson Pamela Anderson has spent the last few years trading the noise of Hollywood for a quieter life on Canada’s West Coast, and she recently posted a video of her beautiful garden sprawling with fresh vegetables, which is proof of what that transition in life has been like.The actress, who…
For decades, the grasslands outside Ramona, California, looked much as they had for generations: open country, seasonal pools and wide stretches of native vegetation broken by grazing land. As reported by the local news report, The San Diego Union-Tribune, among the people who once owned part of this landscape was Hollywood actor James Cagney, who…
