Image Credit: By Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA – JJ7V2741.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34439858 Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is often described as a narrow coral ribbon situated between the vast Pacific Ocean and a serene lagoon. To a casual observer, it is a tropical heaven of stunning…
In 1964, American engineers at the Ralph M Parsons Corporation drew up one of the most ambitious infrastructure plans in history, a scheme called the North American Water and Power Alliance, or Nawapa. The idea was to capture excess river water from Alaska and northwestern Canada and send it south through the Rocky Mountain Trench,…
Most 11-year-olds spend their free time playing sports, video games or hanging out with friends. Nehemiah Turner chose something entirely different. The Florida boy has become the first child to complete more than 100 volunteer hours in the Jacksonville Humane Society’s Pawsitive Reading programme, where children read aloud to shelter dogs and cats waiting for…
Saudi Arabia has restored one million hectares of degraded land and planted more than 159 million trees, marking one of the biggest milestones under the Saudi Green Initiative since it began in 2021. The programme, which now aims to rehabilitate 40 million hectares and plant 10 billion trees across the kingdom, has grown restored land…
Libbie received the mansion in divorce settlement with David Mugrabi (Getty images) A luxury estate in Bridgehampton owned by socialite Libbie Mugrabi is set to go under the hammer after failing to sell through the regular real estate market. The court-ordered auction is scheduled for August 28 outside Southampton Town Hall, with bidding set to…
America’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, has become the unlikely centre of one of the most extraordinary discoveries in recent US history. As years of relentless drought caused water levels to plunge to record lows, the shrinking shoreline began revealing secrets that had remained hidden beneath the surface for decades. Human remains, abandoned boats, military relics…
NASA astronaut Chris Williams has returned to Earth after completing an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, landing safely in Kazakhstan alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew spent 241 days in orbit, during which they completed 3,856 trips around the planet and travelled more than 102 million miles. Their…
In 1975, Jake Jabs took the bold decision to make an $80,000 investment, which later led to the emergence of a multimillion-dollar company from a weak furniture business. The 95-year-old founder and chief executive officer of the American Furniture Warehouse took over the struggling company when it was just on the brink of going bankrupt…
When surprised, a myotonic goat’s muscles briefly stiffen, sometimes making it fall over. A viral video that has received more than 5.4 million likes shows a baby goat jumping down from a small staircase before suddenly freezing with all four legs stiff and toppling over. Within seconds, it gets back on its feet and starts…
For more than a hundred years, a small but remarkable piece of ancient clothing sat away from public view inside Bolton Museum’s collections. Few visitors knew it existed, and even fewer had the chance to see its fragile wool fibres, shaped by hands nearly two millennia ago.Now, after a careful conservation project, the Egyptian head…
