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The 1979 album Don Henley never wanted to make again: “It was long and difficult”
The worst kind of environment. The post The 1979 album Don Henley never wanted to make again: “It was long and difficult” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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Oregon’s Attorney General withdraws effort to delay Paramount and Warner Bros. merger
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has abandoned his attempt to delay Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, dropping the civil investigative demand he had filed to obtain documents about the deal. He had also asked a state circuit court judge to postpone the merger’s closing by 60 days so his office could review the records.…
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Families taking part in teddy bear hunt find suitcase with body inside: Two men arrested on suspicion of murder
Families taking part in a teddy bear hunt discovered a suitcase containing a human body, according to a Daily Mail report. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the grim find, which turned a light-hearted community activity into the scene of a suspected killing. The article provides only limited additional…
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Wildlife conservation work to get £1m boost
Kent Wildlife Trust has been awarded a £1.28m government grant to support conservation work on the River Stour and the ancient woodland of the Blean, near Canterbury. The money comes through Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme, backed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and will benefit beavers, endangered butterflies and birds.…
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Trump’s EPA chief pushes back on climate skeptics being labeled ‘science deniers’
Lee Zeldin argues climate projections for 2050 and 2100 represent a range of outcomes, not certainties, and warns against labeling skeptics as deniers.
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China braced for second typhoon in a week as Bavi approaches landfall
Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from parts of eastern China as Typhoon Bavi approaches the coast, the country’s second major storm in a week. The typhoon, which spans up to 1,000km (620 miles) at its widest point — roughly the width of France — is expected to make landfall near the major…
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RSPB buys ‘magical’ 96-hectare landscape to reconnect habitats
The RSPB has bought a 96-hectare upland area known as Gallt-y-bere in Carmarthenshire, describing it as the “vital missing link” between two separated parts of its Gwenffrwd-Dinas nature reserve in the Elenydd. Situated by the banks of the River Tywi, the purchase allows conservationists to reconnect a fragmented landscape for the first time in 60…
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PM’s Kirk trial evidence, Nigeria’s phantom investment council, and Meta pulls Muse
Prosecutors reveal “devastating” evidence against Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, as a bogus presidential council is exposed in Nigeria and Meta scraps its Muse AI tool amid a Hollywood backlash. Plus tributes to Emergency star Randolph Mantooth.
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Datacentres drive up carbon emissions of Microsoft, Amazon and Google to a third of those of France
All three companies say they still aim to achieve net zero carbon output despite construction boom Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction. In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted 119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of…
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Sonic the Hedgehog’s creators accidentally made the best Christmas video game ever
30 years ago, Sonic Team’s experimental platformer for the new Sega Saturn console birthed a Christmas spinoff that was full of potential