Around the 17th century, the Dutch started reinforcing their dykes and harbours with sturdy mats the size of football pitches – hand-woven from thousands of twigs grown on nearby coppice plantations. These “fascine mattresses” were weighted with rocks and sunk into canals, estuaries, andrivers.

In the spring of her freshman year of high school, in 2011, Emma Burris was woken at three in the morning. Someone had turned on the lights in her room. She was facing the wall and saw a man’s shadow. She reached for her cell phone, which she kept under her pillow at night, but it wasn’t there. The man, Shane Thompson, who is six and a half feet tall, wore a shirt with “Juvenile Transport Agent” printed on the back. He and a colleague instructed Emma to put on her clothes and follow them to their car. “She was very verbal, resisting,” Thompson told me. Her parents, who had adopted her when she was seven, stood by the doorway, watching silently.

Devotees of the conspiracy theory went to a Rolling Stones concert in Dallas believing John F. Kennedy and his son would reveal themselves to the world on stage.

With these new consumption estimates, the researchers calculated that the early 20th-century abundance of krill in the Southern Ocean had to be about five times what it is now in order to feed the pre-whaling whale population. This implies a complex role for whales in their ecosystems where the decline or recovery of their populations is strongly tied to overall ecosystem productivity and functioning.

Up to a third of deer in Iowa had recently been infected by SARS-CoV-2, according to one estimate.

Aboard a boat sailing the city’s coastline, an organization outlines the $30 billion plan to keep the island safe from flooding.

The department will use controversial firm Babel Street to hunt for tax and sanctions dodgers, raising constitutional concerns.

Jayme Melnyk says she couldn't believe her eyes as a moose smashed into a school room located directly across the hallway from her son's daycare. Melnyk was dropping her two-year-old son off at an early-learning centre attached to Sylvia Fedoruk School in Saskatoon Thursday morning.

Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate agent who flew to D.C. on a private plane and livestreamed in the Capitol, got 60 days in prison.

A Colorado man was arrested after investigators say he set his mother’s house on fire while trying to get rid of cobwebs with a blowtorch.

An ugly potato grown in New Zealand is also quite possibly the largest potato on record, weighing in at a remarkable 7.9 kilograms (17.4 pounds).

Igor Danchenko expected to make first court appearance Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia

Months-long silences. Mysterious rejections. Here’s what's behind the shortages of a critical tool for ending the pandemic.

If you want to know why a country that regularly catches fire has such disastrous climate policy, start here.

The viral, pseudo-anonymous platforms are giving motivation and support to a rising revolt among workers everywhere

A Boise woman accused of stripping jewelry, clothing, and other possessions from the body of a security guard shot to death in a rampage at the Boise Towne Square Mall told detectives that she had gone into "survivor mode" and believed she was entitled to take the items, according to prosecutors. ... White said Scarbrough had already been acting bizarrely inside the mall when the shooting broke out. According to prosecutors, Scarbrough - who told police she had used alcohol and methamphetamine - was inside the Play Joy store, kicking holes and ripping sheets of metal from the walls when Bergquist opened fire. The suspect later said that she had been "renovating" Play Joy when the shooting started, telling police that an unknown person had told her that "walls weren't important."

Now, this is salty. Nusret Gokce, also known as Salt Bae, is hiring a chef to whip up pricey menu items like Golden Giant Tomahawk steaks that cost $1,975 (£1,450) for a measly $16 an hour. The celeb chef is looking for a Chef de Partie for his famous London steakhouse, Nusr-Et, and offering the station chef role just $16 to $18 (£12 to £13.50) an hour, plus tips, for their service. That wage is equivalent to a side of mashed potatoes or sweet corn at the trendy eatery, according to the Daily Mail. The job was posted on caterer.com and notes the restaurant “offers a highly competitive salary.” “Amazing opportunity for an experienced Chef De Partie to join Nusret team in the new restaurant in London,” the post read. “As a Chef De Partie, you will be working with some of the finest ingredients from the U.K. and abroad in the one of the most famous steakhouses in the world.” The site continued, “You will play a vital part in a large team and will support the Head Chef during service. To the successful candidate, Nusret London offers a highly competitive salary and excellent opportunities to develop a global career.”

RCMP now say they are attending a medical emergency in Airdrie, Alta., that involves a moose in the area after issuinga wildlife warning for a "moose attack" in the city just north of Calgary.

Some of the midnight pundits even managed to argue both that the bill was sheer leftist excess and that it had contained such universally popular provisions as reducing drug prices, expanding Medicare, making child care affordable, and providing paid family leave (at least, it did until the Manchin Gang cut it back). Obviously comfortable with contradiction, these pundits egged on the “moderates” to continue to cut back such widely popular programs as the way to, well, win back their popularity. Really. My own take is that Biden’s popularity, and the Democrats’ as well, has taken a dive precisely because they’ve not been able to enact these widely popular proposals. At a time when Americans have expected action, they’ve encountered drift and delay. In his victory speech early this morning, incoming Virginia Gov. Youngkin, touting his can-do spirit amid a flow of cheery platitudes, said, “We work in real people’s time, not government time.”

"All I ever aimed for was creating safer spaces for our community," said a victim of the violence. "Yesterday my biggest fear came true: our community centre was destroyed and I got punched in the face."