If you forget to water a houseplant for a week or two, it will droop quickly. Now imagine doing that to an entire rainforest on purpose. That is what scientists at Biosphere 2 in Arizona did in 2019. In a Science paper, Werner and colleagues describe how they turned off the rain for 9.5 weeks … Read more
A North Carolina state Senate candidate live-posted his own armed standoff with police on Monday, October 26. Jonathan D. Miller, the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina’s 16th Senate District in the suburbs of Raleigh, posted shocking updates from the woods as he claimed officers were closing in on him. Jonathan Miller: North Carolina state Senate … Read more
On January 20, 2017, a 371-foot cargo ship slipped beneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico(Gulf of America). That was the plan. According to a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department news release, the vessel was deliberately sunk 67 miles off the coast of Galveston by the department’s Artificial Reef Program. The ship was called … Read more
Most of us toss an empty bottle without a second thought. Ted and Mel Bryson saw something else: walls. KGUN 9, the local station, reports the Tucson couple built the original house out of rock, mortar, and thousands of glass bottles in 1965. Architectural Digest (AD), which also covered the listing, noted the house was … Read more
An abandoned freighter sat in the Miami River for a decade. Then, on November 18, 2025, it was deliberately sunk. The 227-foot ship, named the Borocho, is now on the seafloor about nine miles off Martin County, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) news release. Today it’s known as the Boo … Read more
Most people dream of owning a home, but very few people build their own from scratch. Jessica Patrzyk, 34, and her husband did just that in rural Worth, New York, according to an interview with Realtor.com. They taught themselves through YouTube tutorials, used materials collected from local dumps, and built a 2,500-square-foot home for $40,000. … Read more
A Utah couple admitted in court that they used bolt cutters to remove handcuffs and help a suspected illegal immigrant escape from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah said. According to officials, Kelzie Ryann Luna, 21, and George Sanchez-Juarez, 22, pleaded guilty to theft, disposal and conversion … Read more
Most people see the city dump as the place where broken things go to die. Art Beal saw a source of building materials. In 1928, he bought two and a half acres of pine-covered hillside in Cambria Pines, California, and began building a home from salvaged objects. According to the SPACES Archives profile of the … Read more
* Charles has spoken of sorrow over slavery King Charles heads to Caribbean as calls for slavery reparations grow * Commonwealth leaders meet in Antigua from November 1 * King also visits Bahamas and Guyana By Michael Holden LONDON, – King Charles heads to the Caribbean this week on a tour which comes against the … Read more
Every three months, an ocean in the Arizona desert took a trip through time. In 1996, Columbia University researchers used Biosphere 2’s marine mesocosm to recreate three sets of ocean conditions: those of a glacial ice age, the present day, and the 22nd century. According to the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 ecosystems page, the … Read more