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Sheep under solar panels in Lanai, Hawaii. Images Credit: Wikipedia Chad Raines, a fourth-generation Texas cotton farmer, stopped planting cotton after years of losses and found a very different way to make a living from his land and livestock. Instead of relying on crops, he began moving sheep between solar farms, where the animals graze…

When the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was abandoned after the 1986 nuclear disaster, it was not expected to become part of the future of a horse that had already vanished from the wild. Yet, more than a decade later, Przewalski’s horses were brought into the largely empty landscape in an effort to establish a free-ranging population….

China criticised calls from leading US technology executives to put the brakes on AI development and impose tighter curbs on Chinese model makers.“Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance and serve the interests of no one,” foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said in Beijing Monday. “The development of…

The Kremlin said Monday it would keep striking targets across the “whole” of Ukraine, when asked about a rare drone attack on the Polish border. Nato-member Poland said Sunday that Russia had hit a railway locomotive inside Ukraine, about 2 km from their shared border, just days after Kyiv said it had hit a crossing…

Arab states in the Gulf called off a meeting with Iran planned for Monday, while Yemen’s Houthis launched a new attack on Saudi after fighting that has extended the war in West Asia to another theatre.The Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen said they fired dozens of missiles and drones on Monday at a Saudi military airbase…

At 84, ‘Nan Barb’ drives more than 2,000km through remote Western Australia each month delivering donated clothes (Image Credit: ABC South West WA/ Jon Daly) For 84-year-old Barbara Carroll, long-distance driving has become part of a monthly mission to help people living in some of Western Australia’s most remote communities. Known affectionately as “Nan Barb,”…

The property at 6101 Shoup Ave. covers about 4,675 square feet and sits behind gates on a nearly 28,000-square-foot lot A Los Angeles home that has hosted 173 commercial productions since 2021 has been listed for $3.245 million, along with the filming business built around the property. The Woodland Hills residence, known as the Rum…

The Panama-flagged vessel was also struck on Sunday (Representative image: AP). The US military on Monday rejected a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that an oil tanker collided with a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz.According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, the Panama-flagged vessel was…

A hacking operation that began in early 2024 reached far beyond the companies directly targeted. A 26-year-old Canadian man, Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, has admitted taking part in a campaign that compromised data held by at least 165 customers of a US-based software company. The stolen material ran into billions of records and…

For generations, cow manure was simply an unavoidable byproduct of running a dairy farm. At Jordan Dairy Farms in Rutland, Massachusetts, however, it became something much more valuable: a source of electricity, heat, fertiliser and even animal bedding. In 2011, the family-run dairy installed what it describes as the first agricultural anaerobic digester in Massachusetts….