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A 140-year-old townhouse at 238 West 74th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is on the market for $10.45 million. The asking price follows a $1 million price cut, according to a report by Realtor.com. The house spans approximately 6,460 square feet across five levels. It has six bedrooms and six-and-a-half bathrooms, according to the…

Promised Land State ParkPhoto credit: Google street view Promised Land State Park in Pennsylvania is now a forested retreat of lakes, trails and campgrounds, but little more than a century ago the land was almost bare. Between 1902 and 1904, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania bought the fire-damaged, heavily logged property for between 18 cents and…

Photo credit: Agnews Gallery A $30 estate-sale purchase in Massachusetts has turned into one of the most remarkable art discoveries of recent years. The small, unframed drawing, bought by an anonymous man in 2017, has been identified by leading scholars as an original work by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. Now titled ‘The Virgin and…

Scientists studying Antarctica’s towering ice cliffs have found that glaciers can retreat faster than existing models predict without triggering the catastrophic, self-sustaining collapse some researchers have feared. The findings, reported by MIT News and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), offer new observational evidence that could help refine projections of future sea-level rise. Published in…

Forests are more than stretches of trees for the Indigenous peoples and local communities who have lived among them for generations. They provide food, shelter and livelihoods, while also carrying cultural traditions and ancestral ties to the land. Yet securing legal rights to these territories remains a challenge in many parts of the world, even…

Rachel Watkyn secured £60,000 from Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis on Dragons’ Den in exchange for a 40% stake in Tiny Box Company, after entering the programme with no previous experience of running a business. Founded in 2007, the company grew from her difficulty finding ethically produced packaging for her jewellery business into what she…

Australia has brought the critically endangered smoky mouse back to a forest area in New South Wales where it had not been seen since the 1990s. Nearly 50 individuals were released into the Nungatta Feral Predator-Free Area in South East Forest National Park. The reintroduction marks the first return of a threatened species to the…

Andrew Allen (left) and Thomas Thermidor (right). Image: Doug Haslam/Boston Arts Academy Foundation. A Boston school custodian’s decision to donate a kidney to a stranger helped give his colleague’s younger brother a second chance at life. Andrew Allen, 53, worked night shifts at Boston Arts Academy, where he became friends with geometry teacher Tom Thermidor….

Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni introduces tougher protest laws, including teen detentions, parental liability for damage and up to five years in jail for rioters Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government has approved tougher security measures targeting protest-related violence, including prison terms of up to five years, fines of up to €20,000 and financial liability for…

China began a large-scale vegetation restoration programme in 1999 to improve the environment. On the Loess Plateau, however, the rapid growth of vegetation coincided with a decline in groundwater storage and worsening groundwater drought. The region in north-west China already faces frequent droughts and severe water shortages, making the availability of groundwater important for vegetation…