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A 91-year-old hiker known as Grey Beard has walked the entire Appalachian Trail end to end, reported as the oldest person to do it, PBS NewsHour reports — the full length rather than sections, at an age when most thru-hikers have long stopped

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026

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Virginia held three rounds of public input between March 2025 and January 2026 before publishing its South Van Dorn Street safety recommendations in July 2026.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026

Flora and Fauna

Sea lamprey control has quietly become an integrated pest-management system: lampricides, physical barriers, pheromone-baited traps and sterile-male releases, refined over decades of adaptive trials against a parasite that filter-feeds for years as larvae before turning on native fish.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026

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Grid operators in the Netherlands can now slow or stop North Sea wind turbines for 4 hours when mass bird migration is forecast; on May 13, 2023, turbines at Borssele and a wind farm near Egmond aan Zee were shut down for four hours in an international first.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026

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In 1963, Britain proposed closing 5,000 route miles of railway; by the late 2010s, about 1,200 miles of the National Cycle Network used old railway track beds, while more than 1,000 cast-iron Millennium Mileposts installed in 2000 marked routes across the network.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 3, 2026

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Saudi Arabia contains some of the world’s largest sand deserts yet imports sand from Australia — much of the windblown sand beneath its feet is too fine, smooth and rounded for conventional concrete, making it the wrong kind of sand for the cities rising above it

By Daniel Moran · Sep 3, 2026

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