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Off the coast of southwest England, the small island of Lundy was once a textbook case of how invasive rats can devastate seabird colonies. By the late 1990s, puffin numbers had crashed to just 13 breeding pairs, and many other seabirds had abandoned the island altogether. In 2002, conservationists launched an ambitious rat-eradication project to…

This city in New York rejects the renaming of Lake Ontario. In a rare display of intra-party pushback, Robert Corradino, the Republican mayor of Oswego, New York, a city situated along the southern shore of Lake Ontario, has publicly rejected recent political proposals to rename the Great Lake as “Lake America.” Robert Corradino, the mayor…

Wang plans to go to college to study chemistry with a minor in education, and to keep working on Future Female Scholars. For Claire Wang, the value of education was realized through a story told in the home. Her grandmother, who grew up in Hunan, China, wanted to be a teacher, but had to leave…

Today, Uyeyama operates Harvey’s Coffee with his girlfriend, Abby Merchant, an 18-year-old student at UC San Diego. At 16, Harvey Uyeyama already has a business, a loyal customer base and a highly specialized craft that most adults never attempt to master. From his home in Davis, California, the soon-to-be high school senior hand-roasts coffee, customizes…

Santa Monica’s historic 1897 Shotgun House found new life as a Preservation Resource Center (Image Credit: Stephen Schafer via Santa Monica Conservancy) ​​ A small wooden house in Santa Monica has survived something few historic buildings ever face: demolition threats, years in storage and several moves from one location to another. Built in 1897, the…

Bernhard Fritsch, a fugitive ex-CEO, is wanted by the FBI after $35 million fraud conviction. He was once a tech entrepreneur with Hollywood connections, a Malibu mansion and a startup that promised to help celebrities and influencers make money from their online fame. Now, German-born entrepreneur Bernhard Eugen Fritsch is a fugitive wanted by the…

Muzammil Ahmad, a key figure in a gold scam targeting seniors in Texas, was arrested as he was boarding a flight to Saudi Arabia. A 35-year-old man accused of playing a central role in an international fraud network that allegedly stole more than $250 million from elderly victims has been arrested at New York’s John…

The Sangre de Cristo Land Grant was established in 1844 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. A land dispute in Colorado dates back to an 1844 Mexican land grant and continues to involve questions over who can access the property and for what purposes. The land, now known as Cielo Vista Ranch and traditionally called…

Representative image of Florida Keys from Canva In 1956, a physician from Florida purchased a 7.9-acre island in the Keys at a federal auction, believing he had acquired a rare piece of private land where he could one day build a home. The island, known as Snipe Key, came with residential zoning and a chain…

​Masked protesters disrupt traffic at Britain’s busiest ferry port in Dover, UK Groups of masked men blocked roads leading to Britain’s busiest ferry port in Dover on Saturday in what officials said appeared to be an anti-immigration protest, disrupting traffic around the major cross-Channel hub.The Port of Dover said all traffic in and out of…