by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
The future looks substantially brighter for a beautiful and totally unique Australian cockatoo species that requires very specific nesting habitat. Scientists say it takes 250 years, some termites, no wildfires, and a cyclone to make the ideal home for the palm...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
It had long been suspected that somewhere in or under the Church of Peter and Paul in Wolder, the Netherlands, lay the remains of the man who inspired the character of d’Artagnan, immortalized in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Real name Charles de Batz de...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
Now from the Netherlands comes the delightful story of an 8-year-old’s dream design made reality on the carriages of a very special train. Hosted by the national train operator NS, the NS Drawing Competition invites children all over the country to submit drawings to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Land of the Nile has quickly joined the number of countries responding to the current oil shock by announcing new wind and solar projects. For a country that’s over 90% sand desert, where the Sun was deified in ancient times as a scarab beetle and its dung ball,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
A canal in India has been transformed from a plastic-choked fetid mess into a growing mangrove forest. The clean-up has restored the waterflow, and the 20,000 mangrove seedlings will help clean the water and reestablish fish stocks. Along a 1.8-mile stretch of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Storms, ribbons, and its iconic rings in screaming electric blue, Saturn appears like you’ve never seen it before in a new set of images released by our flagship space telescopes James Webb and Hubble. Whether you want to call it peeling an onion or cutting through a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Ruth Hasman has repaired hundreds of stuffed animals over the years since she retired. Whether it was an overzealous child, a close encounter with a dog, or just too much loving, there’s no damage she can’t fix. From a mass-produced Spongebob Squarepants to a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
Roofers repaired a 78-year-old widower’s roof for free after he was scammed out of thousands by another tradesman. Mike Watkinson needed a few of his roof tiles replaced just weeks after his wife of 57 years died following a long battle with liver cancer. When the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
132 representatives from world governments recently adopted a sweeping set of conservation measures aimed at protecting migratory species and their habitats worldwide. The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS)...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
GNN recently reported on a crowdfunding campaign gone viral on behalf of an elderly DoorDash driver working far beyond his retirement to afford his wife’s expensive medication. Now along a similar vein, an Idaho man was left “blown away” when he learned that a nearly...
