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SpaceX wants to expand Starship launch site with a Texas land swap

SpaceX wants to do a land swap in Texas to “expand its operational footprint around its launch facilities” for its giant new Starship rocket, according to the state. SpaceX plans to give 477 acres (193 hectares) to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department near the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge a little north of Boca […]

Ideas pitched for nature area on Toyota site

Jan. 23—RANDOLPH COUNTY — A 300-acre tract of woodland in on the southwest corner of Toyota North Carolina’s battery manufacturing plant site in Randolph County will become an outdoor educational site. Seven students from N.C. A&T State University’s landscape architecture program will design and build a “culturally inclusive, environmentally friendly outdoor experience involving a trail […]

India’s Modi inaugurates Hindu temple on site of destroyed mosque

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated on Monday a giant new Hindu temple, which is built on the site where a historic mosque was destroyed decades ago by radical Hindus, in the north Indian pilgrimage town of Ayodhya. The contentious place of worship in the state of Uttar Pradesh stands on the razed site of […]