Scientists have found a way to study Charles Darwin’s original specimens from his famous HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the Galapagos Islands. Even more remarkable, they were able to examine the samples without opening the nearly 200-year-old jars that preserve them. Studying Darwin’s Historic Specimens The research focused…
Heartbroken family members remember last phone call with fallen US service member Declan Coady after he was killed in Iran drone strike
Declan Coady, the youngest of the six soldiers killed in a drone strike in Kuwait following the US attack on Iran, spoke to his brother just hours before he died. All six Army Reserve soldiers were killed when a drone hit a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait on Sunday…
On the Ground in Beirut
new video loaded: On the Ground in Beirut Our Beirut bureau chief, Christina Goldbaum, reports on the escalating conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, as Israel’s military seizes areas of southern Lebanon and carries out bombings. March 5, 2026 Source link
The best image stabilized binoculars 2026: Our guide to the top models.
Canon 10x42L IS WP ☆☆☆☆☆ Excellent quality opticsRead more▼ Canon 12×36 IS III Binoculars ☆☆☆☆☆ Field flattener lens keeps the whole image sharpRead more▼ Canon 18×50 IS All Weather Binoculars ☆☆☆☆☆ Big magnification without tripod dependenceRead more▼ Nikon Stabilized 12×25 ☆☆☆☆☆ Smaller and lighter than rivals Read more▼ Fujifilm Fujinon…
Greenpeace Tuna Report 2026 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific
A new investigative report released by Greenpeace Southeast Asia, in collaboration with the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, has uncovered disturbing links between suspected forced labour in the Indonesian tuna fishing industry and seafood sold in Australia. The findings raise urgent questions about human rights protections…
Tragedy as body is found near NAB headquarters in Melbourne’s Docklands amid talk of widespread redundancies
By ASHLEY NICKEL, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 05:46 GMT, 5 March 2026 | Updated: 05:55 GMT, 5 March 2026 Victoria Police have responded to reports of a body in Melbourne CBD. It’s understood the body was found outside the NAB office in Docklands, Melbourne, on Thursday afternoon. ‘Police will prepare…
Australia sends ‘military assets’ to the Middle East in latest escalation of Iran conflict
By ASHLEY NICKEL, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 05:13 GMT, 5 March 2026 | Updated: 05:24 GMT, 5 March 2026 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed Australian ‘military assets’ have been sent to the Middle East. Albanese said the weapons were sent as part of the response to thousands of Australians being…
A Little Town with a Long Name
On the southeastern coast of Anglesey, an island off the coast of mainland Wales, lies a little town with a big name. Following a Welsh tradition of naming towns after churches and nearby geographic features, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch roughly translates to “St. Mary’s Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid…
Distressing new details about murders of high school friends aged 17 and 18 targeted by stranger during day trip to remote hiking spot
Nearly one year after two teenagers were brutally killed during a day hike in Arizona, grizzly new details were revealed from a heavily redacted medical examiner’s report. Pandora Kjolsrud, 18, and Evan Clark, 17, were found dead on May 27 last year after they were murdered in a remote hiking…
Hernes Oak: Horrific scene inside gruesome ‘murder-suicide’ home in the eerie shadow of Haunted Hills – after the brutal tragedy rocked a tiny country town
Shocking clues over the final minutes of a tragic couple’s lives have emerged days after their bodies were found in an apparent brutal murder-suicide. Police located the bodies of Aaron Hammond, 46, and Chamindika Jayawardena, 47, inside their McGraths Track home at Hernes Oak in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley on Monday.…