World 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 August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com 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…
World 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 August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com 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…
World In the 1970s, Britain imported North American signal crayfish for farms; they escaped, bred in huge numbers and now infest rivers across England, Wales and Scotland, carrying a plague deadly to native crayfish August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com In the 1970s, British aquaculture businesses imported North American signal crayfish to stock farms, hoping to build a profitable new freshwater fishery. But the plan backfired: the hardy invaders escaped…
World A Rhode Island woman bought her family’s coastal farm in 1908, spent decades painting and birdwatching there, then left the land to become a sanctuary that now protects 300 acres August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Cerio began planning a bird sanctuary soon after buying Paradise Farm. (Newport History Society photo) Mabel Norman Cerio spent much of her life between art and nature at Paradise Farm…
World Indian-origin former Optum director sentenced to 3 years in prison over $950,000 fraud scheme | World News August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Karan Gupta former Optum director jailed to 3 years in prison over $950,000 fraud scheme/Image: Getty Images An Indian-origin former director at healthcare company Optum has been sentenced to three…
World Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then…” | August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Image(s): Left/ Princeton University/Right/Wikipedia While a desk covered in books, papers and unfinished notes may be seen as a sign of an untidy mind, the great scientist Albert Einstein had…
World Scientists found traces of two unknown ancient human lineages hiding in modern DNA; one split from our ancestors about 800,000 years ago, another around 1.8 million years ago | August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Representative Image of ancient human evolution showing the genetic connections between humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans (AI-generated image) Modern humans already carry small amounts of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, evidence that…
World A Scottish scholar and his American wife bought the remote island of Canna; 43 years later they gifted it, their home and their life’s work preserving Gaelic culture to the National Trust for Scotland August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Campbell and Margaret moved to Canna in 1938 after spending three years living on Barra. John Lorne Campbell and Margaret Fay Shaw had already spent years recording Gaelic songs, stories…
World Storm Dolly: Next Atlantic storm to be named ‘Dolly’ in an uncanny ‘coincidence’ August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Dolly Parton to share name with the Atlantic’s next storm? (Photos: Dolly Parton – ANI, Representative image of storm – PTI) The death of country music icon Dolly Parton has…
World Japanese engineer’s anime-inspired hair was meant to save time, but it ended up testing a driver safety camera; and now holds more than 250 patents | World News August 26, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com For years, one Honda engineer has stood out in a workplace where technical expertise usually gets more attention than appearance. Odate’s stiff, naturally curly hair falls across his face in…
