Flooded iron mine pit turned clear lake Thirty-three years after local authorities took control of thousands of acres of damaged land, a former mining centre in central Minnesota has completed one of the Midwest’s most striking ecological transformations. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR) established the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area in 1993,…

Photo: A map of Lechuguilla Cave in July 2019Photo credit: NPS For decades, Lechuguilla Cave was just a footnote in New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains: a 90-foot entrance pit leading to 400 feet of dry, dead-end passages that had once been mined for bat guano. But in the 1950s, cavers began noticing something strange: wind roaring…

Trump said US is considering to change the name of Lake Ontario. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States was “giving serious consideration” to renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, as a bitter trade dispute with Canada continued to escalate.In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “The United States is giving serious…

Bradley Townsend was killed on June 10 in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. A 33-year-old British man from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has been killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, reportedly becoming the first UK national to die while serving on Moscow’s side in the conflict.According to the BBC, Bradley Townsend was killed on June 10…