Peat-cutting on the island of North Uist usually begins in mid-April, but the exact timing varies. One old crofter used to say that you should only start cutting when the yellow flag iris comes into ...

A three-year-old has been bitten on the back of the leg by a dingo on K'gari (Fraser Island). The parents picked up the child and nearby boat users tried to fend it off with a kayak paddle.

The first European sighting of the island was by Captain James Cook in 1770 who called it Indian Head after seeing Indigenous people gathered there. In 1836, Captain James Fraser’s ship ...

The 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were walking with a 12-year-old girl around 15:20 when they were hit by a Volkswagen T-Cross on the town's Bog Road. Both the 11-year-old and the 13-year ...

A resident found the remains Saturday afternoon in Garcelon Bog, Maine authorities said. Officials believe the remains, found at the end of Lewiston’s Russell Street, have been in the bog for “an ...

Citigroup Inc. eliminated more jobs this week, just as executives were announcing new share buybacks and doubling down on Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser’s commitment to expense reductions.

Toronto FC formally introduced Robin Fraser as its 15th head coach Wednesday, hoping the former TFC assistant coach can lead the club back to its former glory. The 58-year-old Fraser was a key ...

The West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority worked with the conservation group Greening Australia to create another type of tailor-made frog habitat they call “frog bogs”. Frog bogs look ...

By Dylan Loeb McClain J. Fraser Stoddart, a Scottish-born scientist who went from playing with construction sets as a boy to building molecular machines a thousand times smaller than the width of ...

Irish peatlands, including our blanket bogs, store just over half of all soil carbon on the island of Ireland. But this functioning depends on how wet or dry the peat is. Dry, eroded peat ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...