by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
An American conservation NGO has helped propose and fund the creation of a vast new nature reserve along a critical corridor of biodiversity high in the Bolivian Andes. Containing over 1,300 native species, including 13 found only in Bolivia, the Serranías y Cuencas...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
The best travel stories are often those most subtle; things that only a genuinely attentive person could pick out in the strange society they pass through. Such a story comes now from Japan via the BBC, where reporter Giulia Crouch put together the tale of a unique...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
From Alabama comes the story of two restaurant-regulars chowing down on a 54-year-old promise from their favorite oyster bar. Jim and Jimmy Rush always wondered whether the sign behind the bar at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile was “for real.” It promised a night of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
The announcement of a new transboundary birding route has catapulted southern Africa to the forefront of international birdwatching travel. Spanning Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the route contains an estimated 650 endemic and migratory species, and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
A man has powered an electric car using a homemade battery pack built out of discarded vapes, on a quest to show that so many valuable resources are being cast off every day. Last year, GNN reported that Chris Doel had stripped down the lithium batteries from 500...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Florida waitress has served more than 270,000 meals to the homeless, alongside her husband and two vibrant sons who all exemplify their Christian faith. An immigrant from Barbados, Gloria Vargas, has run the operation since in 2012 largely from her home in Fort...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
The four-year-old boy was headed into heart surgery all alone—a sad circumstance that would soon unleash a “butterfly effect of kindness,” as his anesthesiologist became his mother, helping to deliver the stable home life he never had. The duo first met in 2022, after...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Light which emanated from a spiral galaxy at the same time the Tyrannosaurus rex was dying out on Earth was captured in striking detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. Two instruments aboard the Webb observatory have combined to create a jaw-dropping image...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
CCTV surveillance footage captured the dramatic scene as a mother and young daughter were rescued after they became stuck waist-deep in wet sand—just meters away from each other. A young girl was playing in the sand at 5:20 pm, near the Three Shells Lagoon, in Essex,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
An 80-year-old farmer in England was being forced to pay $52,000 (£40k) to remove rubbish that was illegally dumped on his land by miscreants, until a kind neighbor set up a fundraising campaign to help clear the mess. The farmer in his eighties was facing...
