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Subterranean ‘baby dragons’ found to sneak up to the surface
New York Times, Published on 13/03/2024
» NEW YORK - Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface. Eyeless and ghostly pale from millions of years spent below ground, the salamanders appear to commute back and forth to the sunny surface using springs where water bubbles up from hundreds of feet deep.
‘Doomsday vault’ gets record batch of seeds
Published on 27/02/2024
» OSLO - A vault built in the frozen Arctic to preserve global agricultural crops from extinction received seeds on Tuesday from the largest number of new contributors yet, according to a custodian of the remote facility.
Gotta Save the Castle? Start a Podcast
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» Last month, Emma, Duchess of Rutland, sat in her drawing room and weighed the pros and cons of living over the shop. Specifically, Belvoir Castle, a stately and splendid pile perched on a wooded hilltop in the English countryside with more than 356 rooms and soaring neo-Gothic towers and turrets. It has been the site of the family seat since the 16th century.
Albanians strive to save world's rarest seal
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» VLORA, Albania: A team of Albanian marine biologists scan the azure waters of the Ionian Sea for a sign of one of the rarest marine mammals in the world.
Italy's 'Fourth Mafia', little-known but extremely violent
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» FOGGIA (ITALY) - It took a loaded pistol pointed at Lazzaro D'Auria's head for the Italian landowner to finally say yes to the country's newest and most violent mafia.
Mine a mixed blessing
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/02/2023
» As Wendsler Nosie finished his evening prayers sitting before a mesquite fire, a ceremonial yucca staff festooned with eagle feathers by his side, he gazed sternly towards a distant mesa where mining companies hope to extract more than 1 billion tonnes of copper.
Piercings and prayer: Malaysian Hindus celebrate Thaipusam
Published on 05/02/2023
» Ethnic Indian Malaysians massed in Hindu temples across the country Sunday to celebrate the annual Thaipusam festival, months after the relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions that had barred large crowds.
Tunisian cave village empties out
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» As night settled on the mountain cave where she lives with her mother and her last remaining younger sibling, Halima Najjar looked out at her dwindling village -- a few dozen specks of light clinging to the dimming mountainside -- and wondered if there would be more to her life one day.
Churches turn into 'tools of war'
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 22/01/2023
» Andriy Pavlenko, an Orthodox church abbot in eastern Ukraine, seemed to be on a selfless spiritual mission. When war came, he remained with his flock and even visited a hospital to pray with wounded soldiers.
Turkish govt aims to ban opposition party
AFP, Published on 10/01/2023
» ISTANBUL: Turkey's chief prosecutor made his final case in court Tuesday to shut down a Kurdish-backed opposition party before the country heads to the polls later this year.