‘Name dates back 400 years’: Canada’s Carney rejects Trump’s ‘Lake Ontario’ name change to ‘Lake America’
Mark Carney hits back after Donald Trump ‘renames’ Lake Ontario Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday (local time) rejected US President Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, declaring that the iconic water…
Nancy Guthrie update: Man who knew her for 15 years recalls Tucson meeting, connection to Annie in Facebook chat
An X post has shared screenshots of a Facebook Messenger chat with a man who says he knew Nancy Guthrie more than 15 years ago, offering a rare personal account from someone outside her family. The man, identified as “Arbor Jack Snowd…,” said he met…
In 1904, a 1,227-foot Cincinnati railroad warehouse was among the world’s longest buildings; 122 years later, 210 feet were removed for a new bridge and its old bricks are being reused
Historic photo of the completed B&O freight warehouse, now Longworth Hall Longworth Hall, a historic railroad freight warehouse in Cincinnati, is now shorter than it was for most of its history. About 210 feet of the world’s longest buildings has…
Thieves stole 400,000 juvenile oysters worth about $350,000 from an Australian farm; the grower says a third of his stock is gone and the theft has set him back two to three years
Thieves stole 400,000 juvenile oysters worth about $350,000 Waterborne thieves have raided an oyster farm on the New South Wales Mid North Coast, stealing 400,000 young oysters worth about $350,000 AUD (£177,000). The theft has wiped out around a third…
More than 100 years ago, red mangroves were introduced to Hawaii; now crews are trying to eradicate them from nearly 2 miles of waterways to restore wetlands and protect endangered birds
Environmental crews and volunteers physically clear thickets of invasive red mangrove trees and tangled stilt roots from a coastal waterway in Kailua, Oahu Environmental teams in Hawaii have launched a major effort to remove invasive red mangroves from…
Mystery Iron Age fort in Shropshire excavated after 40 years as archaeologists investigate its strange wetlands, huge earthworks and unexplained causeways
An unusual Iron Age fort hidden in the former wetlands of Shropshire is being excavated again after almost four decades, giving archaeologists a rare opportunity to investigate one of Britain’s most enigmatic lowland forts. Wall Camp, near Kynnersley and…
In 1776, a Gettysburg minister built his stone home; 200 years later a young couple saved it from demolition, and today the city’s oldest building is marking its 250th birthday
In 1776, a Gettysburg minister built his stone home Gettysburg’s oldest surviving building, the 1776 Dobbin House, marked its 250th anniversary on Wednesday, 26 August 2026, celebrating two and a half centuries since Irish-born Presbyterian…
A London apartment burned down in 2024 and left more than 80 people homeless; two years later, one owner says she is still paying the mortgage on a home that no longer exists
“We’re still just stuck waiting for other people to make decisions about our future,” leaseholder Sarah Williams says [BBC] Former residents of a London apartment block destroyed in a major fire are still paying monthly mortgages on…
Scientists analysed thousands of animal genomes and found hidden “evolutionary highways” stretching back 600 million years
Scientists have traced hidden pathways through animal evolution by comparing thousands of genomes and following pieces of chromosomes that have survived for hundreds of millions of years. The study examined 5,821 chromosome-scale genomes from 4,454…
Humans stepped back from this UK dairy farm in 2023; three years later, wildlife returns as 27 more bird species appear and butterfly numbers more than double
Image: The Guardian/Jenny Vickers A former dairy farm in the UK has undergone a striking transformation after humans stepped back and allowed natural processes to reshape the land. At Heal Somerset, a 460-acre site in Somerset acquired by the rewilding…