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Alaska used rotenone to eliminate invasive pike from an entire lake; the pike vanished, and 6,836 Arctic char were later stocked to rebuild the native fishery

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In a remote corner of Southcentral Alaska, state biologists carried out a dramatic restoration: they treated an entire lake with rotenone, a plant-derived piscicide, to wipe out an invasive population of northern pike. After the treatment, post-surveys confirmed the pike were gone. The next step was rebuilding what had been lost. In June 2013, the … Read more

Maine buried 20,000 discarded tyres beneath a road to fight frost and spring mud, while turning a growing waste problem into an engineering solution | World News

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Along a quiet stretch of road in Maine, engineers buried something most people would expect to see in a scrapyard rather than beneath their tyres: about 20,000 discarded car tyres. The unusual experiment was designed to tackle two problems at once. Maine’s roads face a difficult seasonal cycle, with winter freezing the ground and spring … Read more

16-year-old UP girl gang-raped inside moving bus during 30-km ride to Delhi’s Kashmere Gate | Delhi News

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A 16-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped inside a moving sleeper bus. NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old Class 11 student from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly gang-raped inside a moving sleeper bus after she boarded the vehicle seeking help while stranded in heavy rain, police said.The incident took place on the night of August 4 after the teenager, … Read more

Pamela Anderson Garden: Pamela Anderson gives a glimpse into her sprawling Vancouver garden estate filled with numerous vegetables and flowers: How gardening became her ‘self-soothing meditation’

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Photo via Instagram/ X/ Pamela Anderson Pamela Anderson has spent the last few years trading the noise of Hollywood for a quieter life on Canada’s West Coast, and she recently posted a video of her beautiful garden sprawling with fresh vegetables, which is proof of what that transition in life has been like.The actress, who … Read more

In 1951, an English couple moved with four children to a roadless Tasmanian island for a different life; they stayed 55 years, and 7,400 hectares became protected | World News

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Representative image of a family walking through the rugged coastal landscape of Tasmania. Image Credits: ChatGPT. In 1951, an English couple moved with their four children to a remote island in Bass Strait, off north-west Tasmania, to build a life far from mainland routines. John and Eleanor Alliston settled on Three Hummock Island, a roadless … Read more

In 1966, Marlon Brando bought a private Polynesian atoll after filming ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’; it is now a wildlife sanctuary where 15,614 green turtle hatchlings emerged in one season

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Marlon Brando bought a private Polynesian atoll after filming ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ A private Pacific atoll once owned by Hollywood actor Marlon Brando has become one of French Polynesia’s most important marine conservation sites, with thousands of sea turtle hatchlings recorded after decades of habitat protection. Biologists monitoring Tetiaroa Atoll recorded more than 15,614 … Read more

In 1978, Richard Branson bought a bare 74-acre Caribbean island for $180,000; it now shelters more than 140 animal species, including breeding lemurs and giant tortoises | World News

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An aerial view of Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, a private island in the Caribbean. Credits – Wikimedia Commons In 1978, Richard Branson, then 28, paid $180,000 for a small, uninhabited island in the British Virgin Islands. Necker Island had no fresh water source, no buildings and barely any vegetation beyond scrub and … Read more

In 1992, Congress ordered the removal of 2 dams blocking the Elwha River—24 years later, the river finally ran free to the Sea | World News

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In 1992, Congress passed an Act of law that few outside Washington State took much notice of at the time, yet it would go on to reshape one of the Pacific Northwest’s great rivers. According to the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act, the federal government was to buy up two hydroelectric dams that … Read more

Dolly Parton funeral: Family gather for singer’s burial at Nashville site; to be laid to rest beside husband Carl Dean – PICS |

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The family of country music icon Dolly Parton, gathered at the Nashville burial site on Friday morning to bid the singer a teary goodbye. Dolly Parton’s family gather for emotional farewell Three days after news broke about the star’s sudden demise, her near and dear ones were spotted arriving at the location early Friday morning. … Read more

In 2009, Illinois poured 2,200 gallons of fish poison wrapped in red dye into a canal protecting Lake Michigan to block Asian carp from Lake Michigan; thousands of fish died, but crews found only one Asian carp |

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Representative image of a canal treatment operation using red dye to track rotenone as crews worked to control invasive Asian carp. Image Credits: Chat GPT. In December 2009, Illinois took an extraordinary step to protect the Great Lakes from an invasive fish that had been moving through the waterways of the Mississippi River basin. During … Read more