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Two commercial fishermen have had their licences suspended and vessel permits revoked for four years after wildlife officers recovered 194 abandoned Dungeness crab traps from waters off the Del Norte County coast. The enforcement action, finalised during an August meeting of the California Fish and Game Commission, involved 66-year-old Darryl Donovan of Gilroy and 60-year-old…

Norway’s Princess Astrid leaves after the funeral service of Norway’s King Harald, in Oslo on Wednesday Princess Astrid of Norway, the elder sister of late King Harald V, died on Friday at the age of 94, the Norwegian royal palace said, just two days after she attended her brother’s state funeral in Oslo.Astrid’s death comes…

Photo: https://actionfornature.org At 13, Neha Blunt is using code, creativity and community action to tackle one of the world’s most urgent environmental challenges. The New Jersey student created Water Saver, a web application that turns everyday conservation into an interactive challenge, helping households track their water use and make practical changes. Her wider campaign has…

Becky Shelton could have cashed in, just like many other landowners in her neighbourhood. But she knew that wasn’t what she and her late husband wanted. Selling the 215 acres to developers reshaping Northern Virginia was everything against their dream. So, she went as planned and locked the land away, ensuring that it never becomes…

Representative Image (AI-generated) What if a discarded Christmas tree could help bring a damaged river ecosystem back to life? For years, the Niagara River’s shoreline has been losing an important part of its natural ecosystem. More than 75% of the original coastal wetlands on the Canadian side had disappeared, reducing the shallow, sheltered areas that…

Image: AP Photo/Dave Martin Two Georgia men built an elaborate fraud scheme around one extraordinary deception, they pretended to be professional football players to convince lenders to hand over millions of dollars. Luther Davis and CJ Evins allegedly created fake companies, fabricated financial documents and identities, and even changed their appearance with wigs and makeup…

Thieriot is now best known as the co-creator and star of the CBS drama Fire Country Actor Max Thieriot and his wife Lexi bought a roughly 90-acre ranch in west Sonoma County, California, in 2013, and over the past decade, the property has evolved into a working vineyard and family retreat. The ranch is located…

Scotland’s first commercial wind farm has reached a major milestone in dealing with turbine waste after almost three decades of operation. Hagshaw Hill in South Lanarkshire, which began operating in 1995, was decommissioned and repowered with 14 newer turbines after its original 26 turbines were dismantled in 2023. A Mott MacDonald assessment commissioned by ScottishPower…

The flight data shows that the aircraft was still travelling at 158 knots, or about 293 kmph, when its nose and right main landing gear touched down. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released preliminary findings into the runway overrun involving a 21 Air Boeing 767 at Miami International Airport. It revealed that…

Long before the trade tariffs, barriers and diplomatic tensions between the US and Canada, there was a time when thousands of Americans found unexpected refuge in a tiny Canadian town after 9/11. On September 11, 2001, residents of a small Canadian town thousands of miles from New York suddenly found themselves caring for thousands of…