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Dogs & Animals

Viral TikTok Helps Overlooked Shelter Dog Find Forever Home

After weeks of being passed over at New York City adoption events, a calm, vest-wearing dog named Marge finally found her family — thanks to one video and 74,000 strangers who refused to give up on her.

Marge did everything right. She wore the vest. She showed up every week. She stood quietly, patiently, on crowded subway platforms and at bustling adoption events across New York City — a calm, gentle dog in a bright neon yellow "Adopt Me" vest and a big pink collar, waiting for someone to choose her.

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News International

Artemis II Astronauts Splash Down After Groundbreaking Lunar Flyby

NASA's four-person crew returns to Earth after breaking distance records, photographing the moon's far side, and witnessing a solar eclipse from space

By Damien Day

The Earth disappeared behind the moon. For forty minutes, four human beings drifted in silence on the far side, cut off from every radio signal, every voice, every connection to home — watching as the sun slipped behind the lunar disc and the corona blazed out like a crown of light.

Then they came home.

NASA's Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on Friday evening (April 10), ending a ten-day mission that returned humans to the moon for the first time in more than fifty years and produced some of the most extraordinary images in the history of space exploration.

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Community

Green Space for All: How New Planning Rules Could Transform Scotland's Urban Communities

A proposal to require trees and green areas in every new development aims to tackle deep inequalities in access to nature — and the health benefits could be transformative

By Helen Cooper

In some of Glasgow's most deprived neighbourhoods, barely one in twenty streets has meaningful tree cover. In the city's wealthiest areas, the canopy is almost double. It's an inequality you can see from a satellite — and one that a new proposal aims to fix.

The Scottish Greens have announced plans to make tree planting and accessible green space a requirement in Scotland's planning system. Under the proposals, developers building new housing and commercial projects would be obliged to incorporate trees and green areas, ensuring that every community — regardless of postcode or income — has access to nature.

The scale of the problem is stark. According to the Woodland Trust's Tree Equity Scotland research, nearly a third of Scotland's urban areas have less than 10% tree canopy cover. Some 1,478 urban neighbourhoods fall below that threshold, and 3.3 million Scots live in areas that fall short of tree equity.

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Audio Equipment

SSL Origin Evo: The Complete 4000 E Experience Returns in a Brand-New Console

For the first time, SSL puts the full E-Series dynamics chain on every channel of a new console — and existing Origin owners can upgrade in stages

By GlobeLink News

For more than four decades, the SSL 4000 E has been the console that defined how hit records sound. Its punchy dynamics, its iconic 'Black Knob' EQ, and its legendary bus compressor helped shape 83 per cent of Billboard's number-one singles in 1996 alone. Studios still pay serious money for well-maintained vintage units.

Now, with the Origin Evo, SSL has done something the pro-audio world has been waiting for: put the complete E-Series channel strip — dynamics included — into a brand-new, all-analogue console.

When the original SL 4000 E arrived in 1979, it was the first console to offer a compressor/gate on every channel alongside a master bus compressor. That combination of aggressive, punchy compression and ultra-fast gating became inseparable from the sound of the 1980s — from Phil Collins' drums to the polished pop of Trevor Horn's productions.

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Audio Equipment

Universal Audio Sweeps NAMM 2026 With Record Six TEC Awards — and the Apollo x16D Is Leading the Charge

From Iron Maiden's stage rig to Kendrick Lamar's front-of-house, UA's Dante-enabled interface is rewriting the rules for live and studio sound alike

By Damien Day

Universal Audio has done something no company has managed in the 41-year history of the TEC Awards: sweep six categories in a single year.

At the 2026 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California on January 22, the Scotts Valley-based audio company collected wins across an extraordinary range of categories — from signal processing hardware to guitar effects to studio software. It's a haul that cements UA's position as the dominant force in professional audio tools, and the centrepiece of the achievement is a 16-channel interface that's quietly transforming how live sound engineers do their jobs.

The Apollo x16D took home the Signal Processing Hardware award, and it's easy to see why the industry voted for it. The interface combines UA's acclaimed Apollo X-series conversion and real-time UAD plug-in processing with Dante networking — the audio-over-IP protocol that has become the backbone of modern live sound systems.

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Dogs & Animals Wildlife

Swimming Upstream: Coho Salmon Return to California Rivers After 30-Year Absence

Record-breaking numbers of endangered coho are thriving thanks to habitat restoration — and Scotland's salmon fighters are taking notes

By Helen Cooper

For more than thirty years, no coho salmon had been born in the upper Russian River in California. The species, once abundant across the state's coastal waterways, had been driven to the edge of extinction by decades of logging, land clearing, and habitat destruction.

Then, in December 2025, juvenile coho were found in a Russian River tributary — the first confirmed natural reproduction in the upper basin since 1991. And they weren't alone. Over the winter of 2024–25, more than 30,000 endangered coho were counted along California's Mendocino coast, more than six times the estimated statewide population in 2008 and double the previous year's record.

The turnaround didn't happen by accident. It is the result of over a decade of painstaking habitat restoration led by a coalition including the Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, NOAA Fisheries, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, tribal nations, and local landowners. Together, they have rebuilt the rivers that coho need to survive.

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