In 1905, a 13-year-old crawled through a tiny Tennessee cave passage and found a hidden underground lake

In 1905, a 13-year-old crawled through a tiny Tennessee cave passage and found a hidden underground lake

In 1905, a 13-year-old boy exploring Tennessee’s Craighead Caverns squeezed through a narrow, muddy passage and stumbled upon something far larger than he could have imagined: a vast chamber containing an underground lake. His name was Ben Sands, and his discovery would eventually become known as the Lost Sea, today recognised as the largest underground…

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'Had no time to flee': Drone strikes Russian Black Sea beach, kills 7 including 3 children, injures 40

‘Had no time to flee’: Drone strikes Russian Black Sea beach, kills 7 including 3 children, injures 40

Scenes from a drone striking a crowded Russian beach At least seven people, including three children, were killed and 40 others injured after a drone struck a beach at Arkhipo-Osipovka near Russia’s Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik on Sunday, according to local authorities.The Krasnodar Krai regional government said 21 injured people were taken to…

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Warming seas are bringing octopus, red mullet and bream into UK waters, forcing fishers to rethink catches and chefs to learn Mediterranean species

Warming seas are bringing octopus, red mullet and bream into UK waters, forcing fishers to rethink catches and chefs to learn Mediterranean species

Buck Bennett says he is seeing more species of Mediterranean fish in the seas off Cornwall Warming sea temperatures are bringing Mediterranean marine species into British waters, forcing local fishers to change the way they work and encouraging chefs to rethink their menus.Species such as octopus, red mullet, and different kinds of bream are now…

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