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The 30 Best Things to Come Out of Canada Include Insulin, Peanut Butter-and Ryan Reynolds
The pacemaker, alkaline batteries, and the more obvious maple syrup are among the top inventions from Canada, along with basketball.
Holly Tree Presumed Extinct for 200 Years Discovered After Placement on Most Wanted List: 'Nature surprises us'
A team returns to the site weekly to see if the trees are fruiting in the hopes of collecting seeds from the tree to germinate them.
Rats Finally Eradicated from Caribbean Island as Huge Nature Reserve Rises in Their Place
In 2016, Antigua and Barbuda, the archipelago nation that owns Redonda, launched an eradication campaign that cleared the island of rats.
After 6 Months Searching for New Doctor, Small Town's Viral Video was 'Just What the Doctor Ordered'
Desperate locals in Cornwall, England created a pop video to recruit a small town doctor after failing for six months-and it worked. Watch...
Rare Annular Solar Eclipse Transfixes Crowds Across the Americas - LOOK
Across the Americas people saw a rare annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes in front of the sun, producing a ‘ring of fire.'
Wild Mushroom Harvest Helps Keep Trees Standing in Mozambique
Communities living around Gilé Nat. Park harvest at least 46 species of mushroom for local consumption, now 5 are being commercialized.
Norway Rewilds Arctic Coal Mining Town in Largest Operation of its Kind, Gives New Hunting Ground for Polar Bears
Polar bears, reindeer, Arctic fox, and many sea birds are now moving back into the Sveagruva mining town where coal was mined for 100 years.
Early Man Was Building Lincoln Log-like Structures 500,000 Years Ago, New Preserved Wood Shows
Wikipedia lists the earliest carpentry assemblage ever found as a water well cover carved from oak boards from 5,600 BCE.
Concrete Made 30% Stronger by Adding Waste Coffee Grounds-Cutting Emissions and Mining in the Process
Engineers are making concrete stronger by giving coffee grounds a "double shot" at life to reduce waste going to landfills.
Sherpas Laughing in the Face of Death While Saving Partner Who Fell 200 Feet into an Everest Crevasse
Crevasses form during this slow-motion grind down the mountain, as ice is inflexible, and cracks rather than bends.
He Found the Largest Old Growth Cedar in BC - The Tree of His Lifetime (LOOK)
On a recent trip to Flores Island in Clayoquot Sound, TJ Watt found one of the largest, oldest trees in the country.
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