From 1870 to 1988, California stocked mountain lakes with trout for anglers; the fish helped push yellow-legged frogs from 92% of their historic Sierra Nevada range

For more than a century, California’s high mountain lakes were stocked with trout to make remote wilderness more attractive to anglers. Between 1870 and 1988, fish were carried or flown into lakes and streams that had historically been fishless, creating new opportunities for recreation but also changing the balance of life in the Sierra Nevada….

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Scientists played human shouts, wolf and cougar calls near British Columbia crop fields; deer fled 64% of the time from human voices, but quickly learned to ignore the deterrents

What scares a deer away from a crop field, a wolf howl, a cougar call or the sound of a human shouting? A 2025 study by researchers from the University of Alberta and King’s University found that, among the sounds tested, human shouts produced the strongest flight response in both deer and elk. But the…

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Armaan Malik HITS BACK at trolls calling him and Amaal Mallik ‘ungrateful’ to Salman Khan amid ‘Main Hoon Hero Tera’ credit row: ‘Don’t talk about gratitude’ |

Armaan Malik HITS BACK at trolls calling him and Amaal Malik ‘Ungrateful’ to Salman Khan amid ‘Main Hoon Hero Tera’ song credit row: ‘Don’t talk about gratitude’ Singer-composer Armaan Malik has hit back at online criticism after his brother Amaal Malik called out Salman Khan Films for failing to credit him on a post marking…

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Donald Trump says son Don Jr has ‘calmed down’ since marrying Bettina Anderson: ‘He’s like a different human being’

Trump says his son Donald Trump Jr has calmed down since his marriage to Bettina Anderson. US President Donald Trump said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, has been a different person ever since marrying Bettina Anderson, joking that the 48-year-old has “calmed down so much” and is now “like a different human being”. Trump…

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A man climbed inside a giant Roman storage jar around 1,600 years ago and never came out; archaeologists think they know what he was hiding from

More than 1,600 years ago, as fire engulfed a Roman settlement in what is now Bulgaria, a young man appears to have made a desperate decision: he climbed inside a huge storage jar and hid. He never came out. Archaeologists uncovered his remains inside the vessel during excavations at the ancient Roman colony of Deultum…

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At 28, Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda works with father Nikhil Nanda at Rs 32,500-cr Escorts Kubota; says ‘I would never want to restrict my identity’ beyond Bachchan-Nanda legacy |

Navya Naveli Nanda on building her own identity beyond the Bachchan-Nanda family legacy. At 28, Navya Naveli Nanda’s corporate journey began in an environment far removed from the usual image associated with her famous family – around tractors and heavy farm machinery. Today, the entrepreneur works alongside her father, Nikhil Nanda, Chairman and Managing Director…

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Meet Nithya Tammana: The 11-year-old New Jersey inventor who built a sub-$38 moss filter that can remove up to 95% of lead from drinking water

Photo credit: actionfornature.org When Nithya Tammana learned that lead could enter drinking water through old pipes and plumbing fixtures, she did not treat the problem as someone else’s responsibility. The New Jersey student began researching affordable ways to make contaminated water safer, eventually focusing on a humble material often found growing on rocks, trees and…

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In the 1850s, pigs brought to Santa Cruz Island became feral; golden eagles drawn by piglets helped drive foxes down 95%, then 5,036 pigs were removed as foxes rebounded to 1,300+

An ambitious conservation project off the coast of California has helped save the endangered Santa Cruz Island fox from near extinction. The rescue effort involved removing 5,036 feral pigs, allowing the native island fox (Urocyon littoralis santacruzae) population to recover from fewer than 100 animals to more than 1,300 across the 96-square-mile island. According to…

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