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Andrew Flintoff puts £6.75 million Cheshire mansion on market, bought in 2021 from Phil Neville, 4 years after Top Gear car crash; 10,000 sq ft home features 6 bedrooms and 4 floors

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Andrew Flintoff has listed his £6.75 million Cheshire mansion for sale. (Photo: Getty Images/Rightmove) England cricket legend Andrew Flintoff has put his lavish Cheshire mansion on the market for £6.75 million, offering a glimpse into the luxury property where the former England all-rounder has lived with his family.The 48-year-old, widely known as Freddie Flintoff, purchased … Read more

Robin Williams built a 640-acre Napa estate with a 20,000-sq-ft mansion; after years on the market, it sold for $18.1 million after being listed for $35 million | World News

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Robin Williams’ Villa Sorriso was far more than a celebrity home. Set across about 640 acres in California’s Mayacamas Mountains, the secluded Napa Valley retreat combined vineyards, horse trails, olive trees and a nearly 20,000-square-foot mansion. Built in the early 2000s, the estate was designed as a private escape with lavish spaces for family and … Read more

Nepal’s farmers built terraces into steep Himalayan slopes; now growing macaque populations are making it harder to keep their harvests |

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Nepal’s mid-hills have long relied on terraced farming, with generations of farmers cultivating steep slopes for maize, millet, rice and other crops. But the relationship between farmland and wildlife is becoming increasingly difficult. Rhesus macaques now enter cultivated fields, often in large troops, damaging crops that families depend on for food and income. Wild boars … Read more

1980s AI photo trend: 11 ChatGPT prompts to turn your photos into retro Bollywood looks |

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1980s AI photo trend (Photo generated using ChatGPT) The 1980s AI photo trend is gaining attention on Instagram, with users turning their regular pictures into retro-style Bollywood portraits using ChatGPT. The trend can transform a modern photo into a vintage movie hero or heroine look, an old film magazine cover, a wedding album picture or … Read more

Around 2000, a Florida tropical-fish collector hung rescued coral fragments from underwater “trees”; the small nursery grew into a reef-restoration network |

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An AI-generated image of coral restoration workers growing staghorn coral fragments on underwater “coral trees” in a nursery in the Florida Keys. Credits – Google Gemini  Both the deterioration of the Florida Keys reef and the response to it took time. Staghorn and elkhorn corals grew so numerous throughout the Florida Reef Tract for decades … Read more

Meet Andy Barrett, the 13-year-old Ohio student who turned a school 3D printer into a small business, selling 150 fidget toys and raising money for epilepsy awareness

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Photo: Andy BarrettPhoto credit: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com Most 13-year-olds walk into middle school tech lab thinking about passing their next assignment or making something cool to toss into their backpack. Andy Barrett, an eighth-grader at Granville Middle School in Ohio, saw something entirely different when he looked at his school’s 3D printer. He saw an opportunity to … Read more

Brazil planted vast eucalyptus forests for pulp; 45 years later scientists found groundwater had fallen by 4.5 metres | World News

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Brazil’s eucalyptus industry was built on a simple promise: grow trees quickly, harvest them for pulp and create a renewable supply for the global paper industry. Over decades, however, the enormous plantations have transformed landscapes across parts of the country, raising concerns about what happens to water beneath the trees. In one eucalyptus-growing region of … Read more

In 2017, a 14-year-old Virginia girl dug a backyard pond for a school project; 9 years later, it has become a thriving wildlife ecosystem

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The transformation demonstrates how even relatively small habitat projects can make a difference when they provide food, water, shelter and appropriate native vegetation What began as a school assignment with a shovel and a patch of ordinary lawn has, nine years later, become a miniature wildlife sanctuary in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. In 2017, 14-year-old Maggie … Read more

In 1967, Elvis Presley bought a 163-acre Mississippi ranch for $437,000; his horseback-riding retreat soon became known as Circle G

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On February 22, 1967, Elvis Presley acquired a 163-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, about 10 miles from Graceland. The property, which he bought from Jack Adams, came with a house, horse stalls, cattle, a lake and a bridge, giving the singer a private retreat away from the pressures of his career. According to Priscilla … Read more

Australia planted eucalyptus trees to fight rising soil salinity; decades later scientists found the plantations were changing groundwater but not the soil nature | World News

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Eucalyptus cladocalyx ‘nana’. Image Credit: ERA Nurseries Australia planted eucalyptus trees to fight rising soil salinity, hoping that thirsty, deep-rooted vegetation could help control the groundwater processes behind the problem. A long-running experiment in south-western Australia later showed that the effects of such plantations were more complicated than simply planting trees and waiting for the … Read more