A massive wildfire has been raging on the Greek island of Chios since Saturday. The massive fire threatens residential areas, farmland, and the island’s unique mastiha crops. The fire started as three separate blazes near Kofinas, Agia Anna, and Agios Makarios Vrontados, and has merged into a single, uncontrollable front, fuelled by strong winds. On…
Scientists found a rare-earth element-abundant island concealed under the Rio Grande. This discovery carries immense economic value and can revolutionize knowledge about Earth’s geological and cultural past. As the researchers explored further, they detected an unusually high concentration of rare earth elements. The availability of rare earth elements renders the island an important destination for…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced big changes to the country’s immigration system. Speaking at Downing Street on Monday, he said the UK must avoid becoming an “island of strangers” and called for “fair rules” to guide who can live and work in the country. “The UK has underinvested in skills and growth. This white…
Mexico City’s small urban farms — known locally as chinampas — practice a sort of agriculture in reverse: instead of bringing water to land as most farms do, chinampas bring land to water. The chinampas in use today go back about a thousand years, to when Aztec farmers began building rectangular fields on top of…
If you are the right candidate, Richard Irvine will give you his business and train you to run it. He will hand over his keys, customers and secrets to smoking fish — all free. The catch: You have to commit to living on a remote Scottish island called Colonsay. Population 125. There is already global…
Federal education officials said on Friday that they had opened a civil rights inquiry into whether New York State could withhold state money from a Long Island school district that has refused to follow a state requirement and drop its Native American mascot. The announcement came shortly after President Trump expressed his support for the…
NEW DELHI: Fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi made arrested in Belgium had made headlines four years ago when he had claimed abduction from the Caribbean island in May 2021. Later a detailed police report from Antigua supported his statement, identifying Hungarian national Barbara Jarabik and Gurdip Bath as prime conspirators in the plot. The report, accessed…
An American tourist set off alone last week on an inflatable boat for the remote island of North Sentinel in the Indian Ocean. He had packed a Diet Coke and a coconut as an offering for the highly isolated tribe that lives there, and had brought along a GoPro camera in hopes of filming the…
An American YouTuber known for his reckless travel exploits has been arrested after attempting to make contact with one of the world’s most isolated tribes on North Sentinel Island, part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, who has previously visited Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, was detained after he illegally entered the prohibited territory…
The capsizing of a boat carrying migrants from the Turkish coast to a nearby Greek island has left at least four people dead, including two children, Greece’s coast guard said Thursday, while 23 people have been rescued. A search and rescue operation off the northern coast of the island of Lesbos recovered the bodies of…