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Pursuing poachers: These striking images show the forensic evidence left by the illegal wildlife trade — a handprint on a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) and fingerprints on an elephant tusk; both confiscated at London Heathrow Airport, UK. The photographs earned Britta Jaschinski first prize in the 2026 Earth Photo Award. Jaschinski worked with border-force operations and
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More than two A dozen new suspected scam complexes have been built or significantly expanded in war-torn Myanmar over the past six months, according to satellite images and analysis of the area reviewed by WIRED. The apparent growth in criminal operations indicates how an alleged crackdown on the sites last year did little to stop
Steinfeld said Celeste’s mother, Mercedes, had been warned beforehand that graphic images would be shown. “I told him he didn’t have to be in the courtroom during this part of the hearing,” he said. “But she said, ‘I want to be here to show my support for Celeste.’ She just hung her head and started
Captured by the multispectral imaging instrument on NASA’s Psyche mission, this is a color-enhanced mosaic created from four individual images acquired on May 15, 2026, during the spacecraft’s flyby of Mars. Psyche traveled from right to left (northeast to southwest on Mars) during the six minutes it took to acquire the images for this mosaic,