A fire broke out in a scrap yard in Paterson’s Bunker Hill area on Tuesday. Residents took to social media to report a possible explosion and shared videos of smoke rising from the yard. Scrap yard fire in Paterson, New Jersey. (UnSplash) What we know about the fire A two-alarm fire broke out at a … Read more
FILE PHOTO: A billboard with a picture of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad shows damage by bullet holes, in Damascus, Syria, December 16, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo Syria’s parliament voted on Wednesday to abolish a counter-terrorism court established during the reign of former President Bashar al-Assad and nullify the legal effects of its rulings.The counter-terrorism court was … Read more
Trump’s latest climate rollback targets carbon emissions from US power plants The Donald Trump administration is set to scrap Biden-era limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, marking another major rollback of US climate policy and removing restrictions that targeted a sector responsible for nearly a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas … Read more
Representative Image (AI-generated) What happens when thousands of worn-out tires reach the end of the road? In Michigan, some of them found their way back onto one. In 2025, more than 7,000 scrap tires were recycled into rubber-modified asphalt used on approximately 0.8 miles of Ellsworth Road in Pittsfield Township. According to the Washtenaw County … Read more
Simpson used salvaged road signs, bicycle parts and scrap metal to create towering structures that moved with the wind. Vollis Simpson spent much of his life repairing farm machinery in Wilson County, North Carolina. After retiring, he began building huge wind-powered sculptures on his farm using discarded materials. What started as a hobby soon grew … Read more