Four decades after the artist Agnes Denes planted and harvested a two-acre wheat field in Lower Manhattan, using one of the last undeveloped plots of land in the economic capital to create an idyllic but ephemeral vista, the ecological artist — now aged 93 — has reimagined the project in Montana. “Wheatfield – An Inspiration” […]
A British-Mexican man who says he was targeted for being gay and arrested on false drug charges in Qatar has been given a suspended six-month jail sentence, a fine amounting to about $2,700, and a deportation order by a court in the Arab nation, which is a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East, according […]
MONROE — Michigan State University played a soybean cyst nematode (SCN) plot May 20 at Monroe County Community College‘s Student Ag Farm. Eight seed treatments, replicated six times, were planted at the Student Ag Farm, which is an off-campus testing location, said Ned Birkey, MSU Extension educator emeritus. Grant (from left), a senior forestry student; […]
A 9-year-old girl “should have known” there was a camera hidden under the toilet seat by an American Airlines flight attendant, the airline’s lawyers said in court filings. The employee, Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, allegedly filmed multiple little girls between the ages of 7 and 14 during a seven-month span last year, federal prosecutors […]
A tulip poplar tree has been planted in Honesdale’s Central Park, a sapling that could one day boast at least 100 feet in height, while ever symbolizing the birth of liberty when the United States of America was forged nearly 250 years ago. This is a “Liberty Tree,” one of 67 expected to be planted […]
The audio recording that jurors heard Thursday lays it all out: There is then-candidate Donald Trump, in September 2016, talking about a hush payment with his former fixer, Michael Cohen, including the amount and how the Trump Organization would facilitate the whole thing. “We’ll have to pay,” Cohen can be heard telling Trump, who responds […]
The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there. NASA astronaut Christina Koch presented a loblolly pine “Moon Tree” sapling to her home state of North Carolina on Wednesday (April 24). The tree began as one of more than 1,000 seeds that […]
Claim: A couple in Brazil planted over 2 million trees in 20 years to recreate the forest. Rating: Rating: True Context: While it’s true that a couple in Brazil planted more than 2 million trees over a 20-year period, they reportedly received help from local students and workers to accomplish the task. In 2019, […]
At 550 hectares, Majuli is the world’s largest river island. If that phrase conjures the image of a jungly outcrop garlanded with sandy banks, it should — that’s how this island in in extreme eastern India used to look. But decades of population growth and erosion along the mighty Brahmaputra River wreaked havoc on the […]
To reach its climate goals, the U.S. will need to build solar arrays on some 15,000 square miles of land, an area larger than Maryland. Growing native plants at these sites could give a much-needed boost to imperiled insects, a new study finds. For the research, scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and the National […]
Washington — The individual who investigators say left two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington, D.C., the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack is still on the loose, and the FBI is offering a $500,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person […]