Two off-duty firefighters died Thursday after falling into a manure tanker in upstate New York, authorities said. The incident happened late Thursday morning at Champion Farm in Clinton, just east of Syracuse, according to the Kirkland Police Department. The two male victims, later identified as 33-year-old Nathan Doody and 29-year-old Tyler Memory, were found unconscious […]
South Korea has announced it will suspend a rapprochement deal with North Korea to punish it over launches of refuse-carrying balloons – even after the North said it would halt its campaign. Over several days, North Korea flew hundreds of balloons to drop rubbish and manure on South Korea in an angry reaction against previous […]
North Korea floated hundreds of balloons filled with garbage and feces across the border south. North Korea had vowed retaliation after South Korean activists sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets. The North’s balloons contained fertilizer, NBC reports, but not human excrement. North Korea floated balloons carrying garbage and feces into South Korea last week, officials in Seoul said. […]
Jefferson Currie II is at war with flies. Spotted flypaper dangles from the ceiling of his home in North Carolina’s Scotland county. He shows off a two-quart jar trap, marketed as an outdoor pest control solution for farms, full of flies he’s caught indoors. On Zoom meetings for his job as the Lumber Riverkeeper with […]
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – U.S. Congress members from both political parties have been urging the Environmental Protection Agency not to propose a rule that would require farms to report on air emissions from animal waste, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The EPA is soliciting public comment on whether it should revoke or […]