For nearly 50 years, China has placed straw grids across its deserts; desertified land is now shrinking by over 1,000 sq km a year, but scientists say the fight is far from over

Desert control worker Yin Yuzhen walks along sand dunes covered by grass checkerboard that’s part of desertification control efforts at the Engebei Ecological Area near Ordos in northern China’s Inner Mongolia province on Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Across the deserts of northern China, a quiet, repetitive movement has played out for…

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Scientists cut climbing vines from a damaged Borneo forest. Its canopy then grew three times faster, and the method may cost 10 times less than tree planting

Dipterocarp forest at the Danum Valley Field Centre. Borneo’s tropical forests, dominated by trees from the Dipterocarp family, have some of the highest canopies in the world, with some trees reaching 100 meters Simply cutting back aggressive climbing vines in logged tropical forests allows the tree canopy to recover three times faster than planting new…

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Switzerland built giant tunnels under the Alps to reduce truck traffic, but the project is now helping protect the country’s mountains from climate threats | World News

Most people picture Switzerland’s mountain tunnels as an engineering flex, a way to shrink travel time between cities. But the real story behind this vast underground network is less about convenience and more about climate. Since the 1990s, Switzerland has been quietly pulling truck traffic off its fragile Alpine roads and pushing it underground onto…

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Tom Cruise breaks down extensive make-up process for ‘Digger’; reveals Inarritu tied the look: ‘You look at the taste of this man’ |

Tom Cruise, the charismatic and invincible action star, dons a new mask for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s upcoming dark comedy-satire, ‘Digger.’ The four-time Academy Award nominee revealed that he put on layers of makeup and costumes to communicate through physicality. Making his first non-franchise film in almost a decade, the 64-year-old found his lenses, colour, and…

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Iran says 30 civilians killed in US strikes as Trump warns of ‘hitting them harder’

Representative Image (Source: Reuters) Iran said more than 30 civilians have been killed in recent US strikes on southern Iran, as US President Donald Trump warned that Washington would target Iranian power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran returns to the negotiating table.Government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said on X that the strikes had killed…

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‘Abhishek has done no wrong’: Mamata Banerjee stands firmly behind nephew amid rebellion in TMC | India News

Mamata stands firmly behind nephew amid rebellion in TMC NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday strongly defended her nephew and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, saying he had ‘done no wrong’ and would remain in politics for the next 50 years. Her remarks came as the party continues to face…

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Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos may have enough money to buy entire countries, but they cannot buy their way into this exclusive club on Florida’s ‘Billionaire Bunker’

The country club on Miami’s Billionaire Bunker is so exclusive that even Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos just walk in Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on huge waterfront estates on Miami’s Indian Creek Island, American tech billionaires face one surprising reality. The island’s social centre, the Indian Creek Country Club, follows a strict…

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Evening news wrap: Delhi HC seeks Centre’s reply on Sonam Wangchuk’s PIL; Madan Mitra quits Mamata camp & more | India News

Delhi high court sought responses from the Centre and Delhi government on a PIL seeking urgent medical intervention for climate activist Sonam Wangchuk. TMC MLA Madan Mitra resigned from the Mamata Banerjee-led faction and joined the rebel camp led by Ritabrata Banerjee. The Union Cabinet approved seven major decisions covering semiconductors, mobile phone manufacturing, fertiliser,…

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In 1622, a Spanish ship sank off Florida carrying silver and gold, but divers have just found the first silver bar from the wreck in nearly 30 years | World News

Off the coast of Key West, a crew of treasure divers just pulled up something that had not come out of the water in almost thirty years. Working the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in a hurricane back in 1622, divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions recovered…

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Amid Fatwa and love-jihad allegations, know why Aamir Khan’s ex-wives Reena Dutta and Kiran Rao were absent from his and Gauri Spratt’s wedding |

Aamir Khan and Gauri Sprat wedding Aamir Khan‘s intimate wedding to longtime partner Gauri Spratt on July 5, 2026, has been one of the most talked-about celebrity events that has taken place of late. While the ceremony was attended by close family members, his children, Ira, Junaid, Azad, mother, and close friends from the fraternity,…

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