In the mid-1980s, as the Near Island Bridge was being built, I drove the shuttle ferry back and forth between the downtown spit and Near Island. I’d pick up passengers at the water float, cross the ...

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Churchill park, Alaska. Image by Jennifer C., CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Eager to dive into the captivating world ...

“So pervasive was the lore that (Old) Sheep Island Road became known among local residents as Light Road, with a local stretch of road known today as Old Light Road,” she noted. Hughes ...

Love dreamy Welsh homes? Sign up to our newsletter here Off the tip of the Llŷn Peninsula, Ynys Enlli, also known as Bardsey Island, has drawn pilgrims since the sixth century. It has a rich past ...

The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the US. In Milam County, outside Austin, SB Energy operates the fifth-largest solar ...

Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have, you may have noticed something very strange about their pupils. Instead of being round, as is the case with humans ...

Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have, you may have noticed something very strange about their pupils. Instead of being round, as is the case with humans, they are ...

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A farmer has been sentenced for the "shocking and cruel" mistreatment of his sheep. Dead animals were found decaying in and around buildings used by Daniel Hayward and about 30 of his flock ...

A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already ...