Plans to construct a road tunnel near Stonehenge have been approved.
The Department for Transport approved the £1.7bn two-mile (3.2km) tunnel from Amesbury to Berwick Down in Wiltshire on Friday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-66201424
When Judith Ezekiel was five years old, her grandfather drove her and her two brothers to Arlington National Cemetery, to see a statue made by their relative.
Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Judith's cousin four times removed, was a renowned Jewish sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. His most famous work, what he called the "crowning achievement" of his career, has stood inside Arlington since 1914: the Confederate Memorial.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66004176
They are called “the Orphans” and they have stood side by side in what is now Calaveras Big Trees State Park for more than five centuries.
But today, fans of the giant sequioas fear that one of the towering duo may soon perish after a prescribed fire that was intended to protect them, but instead roasted the trees’ massive trunks and killed most of their canopies.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-12/anger-builds-after-controlled-burn-damages-sequoia-trees
