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Viewed from above, 89 wind turbines form a striking hexagon of white pinpoints against dark blue water. What makes Windpark Fryslân unusual isn’t just its shape, but the fact that the offshore wind farm isn’t far out in the ocean. It’s just six kilometres from a shore dotted with villages in …

The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost four metres from snout to tail and weighed slightly under 300 kilograms, …