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The Major Oak, Ancient Tree of Robin Hood Legend, Has Died

The Major Oak, Ancient Tree of Robin Hood Legend, Has Died

The Major Oak in the Sherwood Forest was between 800 and 1,200 years old. It succumbed to a combination of over-tourism, climate change and misguided efforts to save it.

Hacker Noon

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Agent Behavior Specification: A New Development for the AI Era (6/18/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 18, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Rolls-Royce Was Trademark Registered in 1935, F-117 Nighthawk Made Its…

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Mini Dramas, Mini Games encourage new business models for TikTok

Mini Dramas, Mini Games encourage new business models for TikTok

One of the fastest-emerging content trends in the region is the “mini-drama” or “micro-drama”—serialized, hyper-short-form narrative videos designed specifically for mobile viewing. While markets like Vietnam have leaned heavily into this…

The Punch

Banditry, farmer-herder clashes worsening poverty in North — Study

A new study reveals how banditry, farmer-herder clashes, and insurgency are deepening poverty and weakening household resilience in Northern Nigeria. Learn Read More…

The Punch

In Ancient Pits Near Stonehenge, Scientists See Hints of Solstice Ritual

British archaeologists may have found the remains of a site where people celebrated the solstice thousands of years ago, a few miles from the famed stone circle.

Our Ocean Conference: Poe champions PH progress and surging biodiversity

Our Ocean Conference: Poe champions PH progress and surging biodiversity

MOMBASA, Kenya — Representing the Philippines, Rep. Brian Poe of the FPJ Panday Bayanihan party-list delivered the Philippine Statement at the 11th Our Ocean Conference (OOC11), highlighting the country’s accelerated marine conservation…

Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth. University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher…

Newsroom Edition: Pauline Hanson’s Trumpian attack on the press - podcast

Newsroom Edition: Pauline Hanson’s Trumpian attack on the press - podcast

Pauline Hanson’s ascendancy in Australian politics was underscored this week by her first address to the National Press Club. In a lengthy speech, the leader of the rightwing party railed against multiculturalism and Islam in particular…

‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

Top 10% generate climate and biodiversity damage bill that exceeds economies of most countries, say researchers The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year…

Deutsche Welle

Oil nations on edge in the face of new climate coalition

Even amid an ongoing energy crunch, major economies are dodging firm timelines to phase out coal, oil and gas. Fossil fuel-producing nations now fear new clean energy alliances could ramp up the pressure to go green.

Deutsche Welle

SpaceX is vastly more expensive than any stock in the S&P 500, fueled by ‘FOMO’ mentality

MarketWatch

SpaceX is vastly more expensive than any stock in the S&P 500, fueled by ‘FOMO’ mentality

Billions of dollars have flowed into SpaceX ETFs as retail investors look past conventional valuations.

MarketWatch

Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die

Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die

Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, who served twice as a crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including during the final US space shuttle mission in 2011, has died at the age of 56. With Samokutyaev's death on…