New York City restaurants are saving 800 pounds of oyster shells from landfills every day and sending them to rebuild reefs, with 19 acres of reef habitat already restored | World News

New York City restaurants are giving discarded oyster shells a second life by keeping hundreds of pounds of them out of landfills every day and sending them to a project rebuilding oyster reefs across New York Harbor. The Billion Oyster Project collects more than 300,000 pounds of shells from participating restaurants each year, equivalent to…

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America’s richest techies’ new status symbol is a Swiss watch, and Sam Altman ordered seven worth over $1 million with these words engraved on them

Sam Altman’s OpenAI watch: seven made, over $1 million (Credit: Vanguart) Silicon Valley has run through a lot of flexes. The hoodie. The Tesla. The Cybertruck parked outside a Palo Alto bungalow worth eight figures. The latest one is smaller, quieter and sits on the wrist. It is also the most expensive thing most of…

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In 1967, Emily Frew Oliver sold her family’s Wyoming dude ranch to Grand Teton National Park but kept a life estate; 39 years later she gave it up, ending her family’s 79-year stewardship of the historic ranch

Emily Frew Oliver and dudes on porch of Main Cabin. (Picture: History Jackson Hole) The 4 Lazy F Ranch sits on the west bank of the Snake River in Wyoming, just north of the Grand Teton National Park headquarters in Moose. Below the Teton Range, the ranch preserves a part of the area’s homestead and…

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No ITR filed despite high-value transactions, then came a tax notice: Taxpayer declared Rs 1.38 crore business loss and claimed Rs 5.31 lakh TDS refund; department denied it, but Delhi ITAT ordered refund with interest

A taxpayer from Jorbagh area in New Delhi, failed to file his original income tax return. What happens to your income tax refund claim if you forget to file an original income tax return under Section 139? That’s the question that the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in Delhi has sought to answer.In this particular…

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‘Highly malicious’: India rejects with ‘contempt’ UN report on racial discrimination | India News

‘Politically motivated, highly malicious’: India denounces UN racial discrimination committee remarks NEW DELHI: India has rejected concerns raised by a UN committee over alleged racial discrimination and rights violations by law enforcement agencies, calling references in the panel’s report “politically motivated” and “highly malicious”.The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the observations were made after…

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In 2018, Florida opened America’s first permanent underwater sculpture garden 58 feet below the Gulf; it has grown into a living reef where more than 100 species have been documented

According to its official website, the museum was a collaboration between the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County and the South Walton Artificial Reef Association in 2018. Imagine you are diving under the Gulf of Mexico and come upon what looks like a museum, only instead of galleries and polished floors, there is an unreal…

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In 2017, an MIT class project explored a new kind of aircraft; it has now grown into an $850 million Ohio factory plan for an 8-motor hybrid plane that can take off from an area about the length of a soccer field

Electra takes a different approach to hybrid aviation. Instead of a traditional engine operating the propellers, the aircraft has a gas-powered generator in the nose. (Image: MIT News) A class project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017 studied a new type of aircraft; now, it has ballooned into a $850 million Ohio…

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