Mexico Bans Fracking In Key Shale Basin

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' To Permanently Close, Gov. DeSantis Says Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Florida permanently closed the temporary illegal immigrant holding center “Alligator Alcatraz” June 25 after transferring federal detainees to other facilities, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced. “Alligator Alcatraz now has zero detainees,” DeSantis told reporters at a press conference outside the facility at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades, about 50 miles west of Miami. “It has helped remove many, many dangerous people from the street and get them out not only the state...

Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise Ship Begins Evacuations Early Sunday morning, the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius, anchored off Spain's Canary Islands, began evacuating passengers after a deadly hantavirus outbreak triggered a multinational public health response and put global health authorities on red alert. "The docking took place at 6:30 a.m. and has been a success in spite of all the adversities," Health Minister Mónica García said in a statement quoted by Bloomberg News. Health officials have found that "all passengers are asymptomatic," García added. The U.S. government is evacuating American passengers from a cruise...

China Tests Directed Energy Beam That Recharges Drones Mid-Flight Authored by Bojan Stojkovski via Interesting Engineering, A Chinese research team has successfully tested a wireless power transfer system that beams energy from the ground to a drone in flight using microwaves.  The setup relies on a mobile emitter that directs energy to an antenna array mounted beneath the aircraft, enabling continuous power delivery without physical connections. Notably, the experiment maintained stable transmission even while both the drone and the ground unit were moving, marking a step beyond static demonstrations.  Representational image of a...