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Previous policy would have led to inheritance tax being levied on farms valued at over £1m The Treasury has published this explainer setting out in detail how the inheritance tax rules will apply to farms after today’s announcement. When the…
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has…
In exchange for the land in Texas, the rocket and satellite company would give the government some of its own property nearby, documents show.
Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site at Donnel Point may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical industries. By Dylan Baddour INGLESIDE, Texas—The rediscovery of…
As power-guzzling data centers proliferate across the country and drive electricity prices up, batteries could be a part of the solution. By Alexia Underwood Illinois is lagging on battery storage—projects that collect solar and wind energy to use when the…
Every year at the Oscars, attendees leave with gift bags so elaborate they have to be reported as income to the IRS. Luxury skincare, personal training sessions, designer apples that never brown, and extravagant trips are standard issue. But in…
In a small stretch of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil lives a bright-orange species of frog that’s new to science, researchers report in a recent study. The miniature amphibian measures just over a centimeter long, less than half an…
Only a few years ago, if you popped open a can of soda anywhere in the United States, the container you held more likely than not contained bits of magnesium harvested from the Great Salt Lake. Now, the country’s supply…
Around August of each year, when temperatures swell in the Great Lakes region, wild rice — or manoomin in the Ojibwe language — begins to flower. Rice stalks can grow as high as 10 feet in the shallow waters, and…
As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony “I hate beavers,” a woman tells the beaver hotline. Forty years ago she…