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Bizarre tale of a Spanish engineer who reforested an entire Murcia mountain range by firing pine nuts from a shotgun

Ricardo Codorniu planted 4.3 million trees in the 1800s to stop deadly floods, using shotguns to fire seeds onto inaccessible Murcia slopes.

Bizarre tale of a Spanish engineer who reforested an entire Murcia mountain range by firing pine nuts from a shotgun

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Ukraine accuses Elon Musk’s SpaceX of throttling Starlink terminals

Ukrainian officials have accused SpaceX of throttling Starlink satellite services, disrupting its ability to carry out military operations and leaving Kyiv vulnerable to deadly attacks. An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that without warning, services had been limited for terminals travelling over 100mph overnight on…

  • Ukrainian officials accuse SpaceX of limiting Starlink services.
  • Services curtailed for terminals traveling over 100mph overnight.
  • Criticism from Poland over alleged political manipulation.

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