MELBOURNE, Australia — Sphen, the older partner of a world-famous same-sex penguin pair celebrated in Australian school textbooks and at an annual parade promoting gay rights, has died aged 11, a Sydney aquarium said on Thursday. Sphen and his male gentoo penguin partner Magic, now 8 years old, attracted international attention in 2018 when they […]
MELBOURNE, Australia — Sphen, the older partner of a world-famous same-sex penguin pair celebrated in Australian school textbooks and at an annual parade promoting gay rights, has died aged 11, a Sydney aquarium said on Thursday. Sphen and his male gentoo penguin partner Magic, now 8 years old, attracted international attention in 2018 when they […]
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — In the summer of 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as the destructive waves of energy wiped out two cities. It was a crucial step that helped end World War II. But survivors and subsequent generations have had to contend with illnesses caused […]
NEWCASTLE, Australia — An ambitious plan to build a massive solar farm in Australia’s remote north that would transmit energy to Singapore via an undersea cable has moved a step closer after the Australian government granted environmental approval for the A$30 billion (US$19 billion) project on Wednesday. The Australian company Sun Cable wants to build […]
NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — An ambitious plan to build a massive solar farm in Australia’s remote north that would transmit energy to Singapore via an undersea cable moved a step closer after the Australian government granted environmental approval for the $30 billion ($19 billion) project on Wednesday. The Australian company Sun Cable wants to build […]
