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In 1968, a retired Texas railway worker began covering his home with flattened beer cans; 18 years and more than 50,000 cans later, almost nothing had gone to waste

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Meet Frank Lucci, the 18-year-old Texas student who built a high-precision robot sensor for under $25; it is nearly 20 times cheaper than existing options

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In 1963, a Wisconsin artist began transforming her family's Lake Michigan home; nearly 40 years later, 60 concrete creatures filled the yard

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 23, 2026

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny skies and mild temperatures expected August 23, 2026

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Manchester weather today: Sunny intervals, mild temperatures, 21°C high

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, August 23, 2026, with mild temperatures and low rain chance

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 23, 2026

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A railway enthusiast spent 25 years restoring the Victorian station used by British royals near Sandringham; now the former royal stop and signal box are on sale for £1.25 million

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Britain once had 200,000 invasive coypus rodents, but a six-year trapping campaign reduced the population to almost nothing by 1987

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Quote of the day by Margaret Thatcher: "There is no such thing as society. There are..."

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Liverpool weather today: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 22

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, August 22, with mild temperatures up to 18°C

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures today, August 22

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 22, 2026

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 22

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'Wrong-side' driving trend: 12 deaths in Britain, Ireland linked to social media buzz

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Sweden probes cyber networks after girl dies in school sword attack

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Slow boat to Amsterdam ships cargo using sail power

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10 dead as Russia, Ukraine trade fresh strikes after Moscow's deadly shopping centre attack

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European wildfires expose hidden threat of buried WWI, WWII bombs and mines

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France issues warning over 300,000 unsafe condoms, at risk of bursting or leaking

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Overnight Russian missile strikes leave 6 dead, 33 wounded across Kyiv

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Before Xi-Trump talks, US Navy flies through Taiwan Strait, puts China on notice

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In 1993, ecologist Diane Firestone bought a worn-out Costa Rica cattle ranch; decades later, it held 20% primary forest and 69% secondary forest

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A South African couple combined 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre reserve, restored the land and brought cheetahs back to the Great Karoo after 130 years

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In Argentina, a family rescued 5,000 ancient olive trees from development and built a sanctuary instead of letting them become firewood

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Canada to impose punitive tariff on US from September 8; to hit steel, dairy sectors

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Mexico City planted thousands of plants on highway pillars to fight pollution and heat, turning its busy roads into vertical gardens

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A Swedish hospital stores winter snow under wood chips and pumps its meltwater through the building in summer; in its first year it supplied 93% of cooling demand

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Father leaves 7-year-old alone at 2,000 m on Mount Fuji after he complains of being tired

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South Africa's Stiebeuel River was heavily polluted by sewage; researchers now use stones, sand and biochar to treat 50,000 litres of its water every day

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Canada lowered a retired Boeing 737 onto the seabed off Vancouver Island; the 100-foot jet now sits nearly 90 feet underwater as an artificial reef for marine life

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Helsinki turned abandoned 1970s oil caverns into a giant underground heat battery holding 260,000 cubic metres of hot water; it can heat 25,000 homes for a year

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In 2012, a man in Panama began collecting plastic discarded along streets and beaches: Years later, those bottles had become a village

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In 2020, a Brazilian mother and daughter began collecting discarded bottles; years later, more than 8,000 glass bottles had become the walls of their seven-bedroom home that glows during sunrise

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In 1931, a bankrupt farmer abandoned 4,000 sheep on a sub-Antarctic island: Decades of isolation produced a flock with rare inherited traits

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In 1987, Fort Peck tribes returned over 100 bison to 5,800 acres; decades later they stopped hunting their own herd to restore the original cultural purpose

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In 2022, MacKenzie Scott donated two Beverly Hills homes valued at $55 million; their sale supported affordable housing in Los Angeles

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In 2020, Belgium raised semi-transparent solar panels above a working pear orchard; pear yields fell 15%, but combined land-use efficiency reached 44% higher

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Priscilla Chan's parents fled Vietnam by boat; their daughter became the first in her family to attend college and later pledged millions to scientific research

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In 2016, the Burt's Bees co-founder gave the US 87,500 acres and backed it with $40 million; 10 years later the Maine wilderness is a national monument

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In 1974, the National Park Service bought the Stewart family's 890-acre California ranch; they negotiated the right to remain and continued ranching there until 2021

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