Rachael Evans: In a groundbreaking declaration earlier this month, Indigenous leaders of New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a treaty, He Whakaputanga Moana, to recognise whales as legal persons. Aotearoa New Zealand has already granted legal personhood to a river (Te Awa Tupua Whanganui River), land (Te Urewera) and a mountain (Taranaki maunga), but He Whakaputanga Moana differs from these earlier processes. It is based in customary law, or tikanga Māori, rather than Crown…
Award-winning writer and broadcaster Danny Robins is to take Uncanny international, with tales of paranormal experiences drawn from across the USA. The series, which began on BBC Radio 4 in 2021 and has become one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts. It also made the leap to television on BBC Two and iPlayer and has created a global community of Uncanny fans ranging from the impassioned believer to the firmly sceptic. The supernatural investigative series…
AN eerie footage shows UFO flying into an active volcano that allegedly serves as an interdimensional portal to Earth. A bright shining object could be seen flying towards a Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico City. The mysterious flying light was caught on monitoring cameras as it approached the second-highest peak of Mexico. The strange illuminated phenomena seems to have descended from the sky right above the 17,802ft tall mountain. The glowing intensified as it drew closer to the smoking crater before disappearing…
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Scientists have used recordings from a first-of-its-kind rover to create a new moon map that reveals structures hidden deep beneath the lunar surface. The background: In 2019, China made history as the first nation to soft land a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, giving the world its first up-close look at the moon’s more rugged hemisphere. Though the mission was only expected to last a year, the lander and its rover — Chang’e 4…