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US - Jul 28, 2026 - An American gambler spent $90 million buying 54,000 acres of logged Florida land. Eight million longleaf pines later, a lost forest is returning

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Indian-origin postal worker collapses during shift in Texas, probe announced to find out if it was due to heatwave

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US - Jul 28, 2026 - 'Sexiest Man Alive': Five big revelations from Dr Anthony Fauci's Covid diary - The 1,141-page archive records Fauci's private doubts, scientific disagreements, battles with two White Houses and fascination with his own celebrity. It also contains entries that complicate some of his later public statements.

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In 2012, New York pumped 375,000 cubic yards of harbor sand onto a vanishing Jamaica Bay island; 44 acres of salt marsh returned

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Donald Trump's new warning on Iran: Pickaxe Mountain, other sites could face strikes

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Boeing posts bigger-than-expected Q2 loss as Air Force One costs rise by $280 million

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In 1913, Los Angeles began diverting Owens River water, helping dry Owens Lake into a dust-blowing salt flat; controls now cut dust by up to 99% in treated areas

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Las Vegas lost 90% of a 2,000-acre wetland as surging water eroded its banks; weirs and native plantings later cut suspended sediment by 60%

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United States sewers hide $13 million in metals per million residents, including an estimated $2.6 million in gold and silver

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More than 117,000 unplugged orphan oil and gas wells are documented across the US, with abandoned wells estimated to leak up to 281,000 tons of methane a year

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Costa Rica covered a dead pasture with 12,000 tonnes of orange peel. Sixteen years later, scientists found a thriving forest

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In 1901, conservationists began buying land to protect Mount Desert Island; their first 6,000 acres helped create Acadia National Park

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Three underwater drones located WWII's "Ghost Ship of the Pacific" after nearly 80 years, upright 1,067 metres beneath the ocean

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Quote of the day by Kobe Bryant: "I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be..." - a timeless lesson on authenticity, self-belief and creating your own legacy

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California eradicated these 20-pound rodents decades ago; DNA suggests someone deliberately brought them back

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For decades, zinc smelters polluted Pennsylvania's Blue Mountain; crews later used mushroom compost and aircraft seeding to help vegetation return

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In 1990, Congress created a cap-and-trade programme to cut acid-rain pollution from power plants; over decades, SO₂ emissions fell by more than 95%

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In 1982, Missouri discovered an entire town had been sprayed with dioxin-contaminated oil; 265,354 tons were incinerated, and the abandoned town became a state park

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In 1914, Hawaii introduced fountain grass as an ornamental plant; the invasive species now covers around 200,000 acres across Hawaiian Islands and can help wildfires spread across dry land

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From the 1940s, multiflora rose was widely planted as a living fence; the thorny shrub now infests millions of acres across the eastern US

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A San Francisco resident kept hearing strange noises behind the wall, days later a racoon broke into the bedroom with her newborn babies

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'Not getting into back-and-forth': Mamdani shrugs off Netanyahu's 'hate' charge as Israeli PM heads to White House

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Two Ohio YouTubers behind Creek Kings Outdoors sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to 40 deer poaching charges, fined more than $37,000 and banned from hunting for five years

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A 400-year-old Native American pot lay buried beneath a Spanish mission in Florida until archaeologists found it completely intact

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Netanyahu, Zelenskyy in Washington for Graham's funeral as Trump hosts high-stakes war talks

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For nearly 100 years, two giant dams trapped this American river. Then one historic decision brought it back to life

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New York spent 8 years planting one million trees. Now the city is aiming for 30% tree cover by 2040 to transform its fight against rising heat

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'Nobody tells me what we should be selling': Trump rejects Netanyahu's objections to F-35 sale to Turkey

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'Could result in injuries': FAA flags incorrectly installed seats on several Boeing 737 Max jets

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Surfside Beach loses $545,598 in sophisticated email scam; Wildcat Construction CEO disputes forensic report, says town ignored red flags

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Quote of the day by Marco Rubio: 'American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood' and the story of An American Son

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Quote of the day by Bob Ross: 'The very fact that you're aware of suffering is enough reason to...' and the darkest secret behind human happiness

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Can ICE or CBP read your deleted messages? Attorney says the answer is 'yes'

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Quote of the day by Taylor Swift's husband Travis Kelce: "If you don't care about the guy next to you, one, you're a terrible..." - why caring about your teammates matters more than individual talent

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Netflix executive reveals at company's trust-building retreat he once used ketamine, got fired from his $1.1 million job after return

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This 71-year-old US mayor goes to a homeless shelter every Friday night, sleeps, serves breakfast Saturday morning. In 2021, he called 'homelessness' a choice

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California's ocean is up to 4°C hotter than normal; whales are disappearing, pelicans are starving and sharks are moving closer

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In 1964, Florida began building a canal across the state. The $110 million project failed but created an unexpected legacy

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Built in 1948, Mud Mountain Dam gets a $112 million fish passage project to help salmon migrate

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New rule for asylum seekers in the US: 'No interview, straight deportation', DHS calls it 'second chance'

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What is happening in Seattle now? Police searching for 2nd shooter; no details about arrested suspect revealed

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KFC founder Colonel Sanders' Kentucky home, restaurant and engraved pressure cooker are going to auction after one family preserved them for 50 years

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From deterrence theory to frontier AI: 2See podcast brings the Iranian tech community together at Stanford

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In 1969, Chattanooga was declared America's worst city for particulate pollution; three years after imposing strict controls, every major polluter met the new standard

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Since 2004, Green Forests Work has helped plant millions of native trees on former Appalachian coal mines, restoring compacted industrial land toward forest

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'No other...': Parents of Indian medical student Vaibhav Duggal who died by suicide seek $30 million from Texas Tech University

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In 1903, Nebraska began planting a 20,000-acre forest across prairie grassland; today, officials use prescribed burns to keep trees from spreading

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In 1992, Hurricane Andrew may have helped giant Burmese pythons spread across Florida's Everglades, creating one of America's worst invasive species crises

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Why US strikes on Hormuz suddenly stopped despite Trump's bluster

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Conservationists removed tens of thousands of invasive rats from a Pacific island to save its wildlife; they accidentally wiped out an aggressive mosquito species too

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Pentagon created separate category for Iran war deaths, making tally harder to track: Report

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This California river once carried thousands of salmon every year. A 1942 dam changed it forever, and scientists are still trying to bring them back

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An Indian-origin doctor's viral bindi video sparked an online backlash. She says she's never seen so much anti-Indian hate: 5 other times Indians faced similar rhetoric in recent years

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Meet Nehemiah Turner: The 11-year-old Florida boy who spent more than 100 hours reading to shelter animals and changed countless lives by helping anxious pets find forever homes

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As Lake Mead's water vanished after years of drought, human bodies, abandoned boats and decades-old mysteries began emerging from the lakebed

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In 1964, engineers proposed capturing Alaska's rivers and sending them thousands of miles to America's driest deserts

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