Just over three years since the biggest land-based pipeline spill in the United States in almost a decade, the company that manages the Keystone Pipeline System has reached an agreement with the U.S. government in a proposed settlement which calls for it to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty. This settlement comes after a pipeline…
Removing four ageing hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River was always going to be a delicate undertaking, but one complication came from a source that had nothing to do with fish or river ecology at all: wildfire. The dams’ reservoirs had served for decades as a reliable water source for helicopters and fire crews battling…
Ex-wife of Maine shooting ICE officer reveals shocking details of the officer’s mental health. Ashley Brouillette, the ex-wife of ICE officer David Brouillette, has now spoken up after the ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine this week. Brouillette revealed that her ex-husband had struggled with serious mental health issues since childhood…
Mukbang YouTuber Yuno has apologized after receiving heavy criticism for a video filmed during a long-haul flight. The creator, who has more than 780,000 YouTube subscribers, recorded himself ordering food more than 20 times while sitting in first class on a flight that lasted around 15 hours. Many viewers felt the repeated food requests created…
Quote of the day by former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau (Photo courtesy: Yousuf Karsh) Everett George Klippert was the last person in Canada to be arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for being gay. Klippert was originally from Kindersley, Saskatchewan, and was raised in Calgary, Alberta. In 1965, he was picked up by police for…
Redditor says moving to Canada was the worst decision of life. An NRI’s recent post ranting against everything in Canada has divided the Internet as the user announced the decision to come back to India after seven years. The Redditor is a permanent resident of Canada but says the plastic PR card is not worth…
Sisyphus: The Absurd Hero or Asymptomatic Case? An office worker wakes up to an alarm at six in the morning, sits in two hours of traffic, and spends eight hours entering data into a spreadsheet. The next day, the alarm rings at six again, and the exact same cycle repeats. This routine can continue for…
Valery Legasov was the Soviet scientist who exposed the failures behind the Chernobyl disaster and became a symbol of truth, accountability, and scientific integrity A technician inside a nuclear control room looks at a radiation meter that reads exactly 3.6 Roentgen (Unit of measurement for gamma-ray exposure) per hour. Moments after the catastrophic explosion tore…
Kiran Kaur jailed for 3 years. A mother of Vickrum Digwa has been jailed for helping conceal the knife used to kill teenager Henry Nowak after taking the weapon from her son and hiding it at their Southampton home, BBC reported.Kiran Kaur, 53, was sentenced to three years in prison at Southampton Crown Court after…
Business quote of the day by Paypal founder Peter Thiel A successful business always has its USP. It must have something different than others even if there are plenty of competitors in the same area. Mere imitation of something successful does not give birth to another successful product. This appears to be very simple business…
A coral reef in the southern Andaman Sea, in Southeast Asia Cavan Images An international team of scientists has mapped more than 64,000 square miles of coral reefs that can withstand severe heat stress. The findings provide a vital plan for saving marine life while the world’s oceans experience their worst bleaching crisis ever recorded.The…
Chelsie Anderson was the ideal sweet girl next door. She earned money waitressing at the Blue Ocean Seafood Restaurant in South Carolina and as a mom it provided her all the stability she needed. Her mom had experienced addiction and her dad had spent time in prison, which is why she wanted to offer her…
