India’s Essar Group to invest $18 billion in ‘largest’ US steel plant, Trump announces

President Donald Trump speaks as from right, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Essar Capital Director Prashant Ruia, Mesabi Metallics Chairman Rewant Ruia and Mesabi Metallics CEO Joe Broking US President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans by Indian conglomerate Essar Group, through its US subsidiary Mesabi Metallics, to invest about $18 billion…

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In 2019, a former US merchant mariner opened a Mississippi wildlife rescue after finding a baby raccoon on her ship; seven years later, 76 orphaned kits are learning to forage, swim and survive before release

Not just humans, even raccoons are being trained for survival in boot camps now. In a wildlife centre in Mississippi, a dedicated staff is braving mud, sweat and at times, blood, all to train their raccoon soldiers. But unlike what it seems, this boot camp is truly for their own benefit. It runs with the…

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A Maryland couple bought 116 acres as a hunting property; 20 years later, they had replaced crops with native grasses, wildflowers and trees and permanently protected the land for wildlife

Photo Credit: ESLC via easternshoreundercover.com When Louise and John Durocher bought 116 acres in Kent County, Maryland, the property was intended primarily as a hunting retreat. Over the next two decades, however, the couple gradually changed its purpose. They stopped growing crops and began restoring the fields with native grasses, wildflowers, shrubs and trees. They…

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Gautam Adani, 4 group firms settle with Sebi in minimum public shareholding violation case

The settle included total payment of Rs 1.48 crore NEW DELHI: Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani, four group companies and 13 others have settled proceedings with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) over alleged non-compliance with minimum public shareholding (MPS) requirements by paying a combined Rs 1.48 crore, according to a settlement order…

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A 300-foot Maldives beach was shrinking slowly; then MIT researchers built an artificial reef that helped the shoreline grow by 90 feet and double in size

A 300-foot beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was slowly eroding away. In order to solve the problem, a Marriott resort on the island experimented with something different. Instead of dredging sand, they used an artificial reef designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers to repair the beach.Coastal Assembly, a startup that spun…

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