Over 200 eyes:


The eyes have it: 100 of the world’s cutest photos – as chosen by readers


There is great beauty in our world:

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It may not help the miners, but it's always good news when coal mines get closed and more so when you get a 2 in 1 hit. Most especially 1's that border 2 water catchments and are surrounded by national parks.

Russell Vale mine closure leads to calls for Illawarra workers to be given better re-employment options.

....Last month, the mine was issued with a prohibition order by the New South Wales Resources Regulator that stopped work at the site after five underground fires../quote]We certainly don't need any coal fires going on under our national parks.

[quote]..The workers said the managers told them the owners did not want to put any more money into the operation and because of the "ongoing regulatory risk and lack of support" it was closing Russell Vale and the company's other mine at Wongawilli...

And we certainly don't need their polluted water running into national parks and then into our water catchments.

..More than 200 workers were understood to have lost their jobs because of the closure....

Meanwhile these workers should've seen the writing on the wall for a few years now with all the damage and problems that they've been causing over the decades.

Fantastic.
10 year comletes Artioc trek

What a beautiful idea!


Can A Cosmic Perspective Ease Our Political Tensions? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains


How to bring all viewpoints together, even in the world of politics!

Enjoy beautiful ideas and togetherness...


Be Excellent to All!

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FARMINGTON, Mo. - Six sisters are trying to set a World Record.

There are six Overall sisters; four of them live in Farmington, one in Columbia and one in Ohio. Their combined age is 570 years and 43 days. They think they hold the record for the longest-living six siblings.

The sisters made videos about their birthdates and ages to submit to the Guinness World Record committee.

One sibling, the other brother, Stanley, was killed at the age of 81 while riding his bicycle. Stanley would now be 102 years old

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Artfully Brilliant!


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Banksy artwork creates urban tree debate...



Quite a surprise to see the final result.

Beautifully Excellent!


Be Excellent to One and All!!
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Earth Hour around the World:


Earth Hour 2024 – in pictures
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Major landmarks, businesses and households in cities around the world turned their lights off for one hour at 8.30pm local time on Saturday 23 March to raise awareness of the climate crisis and show support for renewable energy...

Enjoy a whole New World!

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Positively going out to pasture:


‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
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Lower Pertwood in Wiltshire... [on] rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain...

... The 2,800-acre arable farm begins its transformation this spring into the biggest grassland rewilding project in southern England, in an attempt to restore declining plants, insects and endangered species including cuckoos, grasshopper warblers and turtle doves...

That make beautiful good sense all year round!

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Being Excellent to all, we have:


Adder girl! Tunnels aim to encourage British snakes to mix and breed
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Trust builds passes under road bisecting Berkshire commons...

... How did the adder cross the road? It didn’t – it was too scared.

Now, however, road-shy populations of the increasingly endangered snake are being given a helping hand with the construction of Britain’s first adder tunnels.

The two tunnels, which run beneath a road bisecting Greenham and Crookham Commons in Berkshire, have been designed to appeal to the heat-seeking reptiles...

Indeed, be Excellent to All!
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Enjoy:


The 2024 Comedy Pet Photo awards – in pictures


Week in wildlife – in pictures: an eel gets a shock, bees take Manhattan and a possum on the pitch




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Artfully great fun!


Banksy’s London artworks – in pictures
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The street artist’s murals have appeared across the city this month, beginning with a silhouette of a goat on the side of a building near Kew Bridge and continuing with fish swimming around a Police Box in the City of London, a rhino in Charlton and a gorilla at London Zoo

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Enjoying green positivity:


‘Better than medication’: prescribing nature works, project shows
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... The prescribing of activities in nature to tackle mental ill health has benefited thousands of people across England, a government-backed project has shown.

More than 8,000 people were helped to take part in activities including nature walks, community gardening, tree planting and wild swimming. It is thought to be the largest such project in the world so far.

The results showed that after taking part in the schemes, people’s feelings of happiness and of life being worthwhile jumped to near national averages, while levels of anxiety fell significantly. The project also found the cost of a green prescription was about £500, making it cost-effective compared with other treatments. Cognitive behavioural therapy costs about £1,000 for 10 sessions...

Experience and enjoy a beautiful green outdoors!

Enjoy the beauty we have in our world!!

Be Excellent to All!
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An Aussie pair is about to send his invention to the world in the hope of eliminating the use of weed sprays after a government grant.

SA farmer and engineer creates farm machinery to destroy weed seeds during harvest.

An "innovative" invention that destroys weed seeds during harvest is helping crop farmers make herbicide-resistant pest plants a problem of the past.

Weeds cost Australia's crop farming industry around $3.3 billion each year in management costs and yield losses, according to the University of Adelaide's Weed Management Research Group.

Determined to find a solution to herbicide-resistant weeds, Kangaroo Island farmer and engineer Nick Berry invented a mean, green, weed-destroying machine, aptly named the Seed Terminator.

In 2016, Dr Berry began manufacturing the farm technology with his uncle, Mark Ashenden.

"The herbicide resistance of weeds is a well-known fact, but there's nothing resistant to Australian steel," Mr Ashenden said.

"Our mechanical device sits at the back of the harvester and all the chaff and weed seeds go through a multi-stage hammer mill."

The steel mill spins up to 3,000 revolutions per minute, leaving weed seeds crushed, ground and unviable.

"Basically, we smash the bejesus out of it," he said.........

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