Forest fires have been going on for days in Argentina’s Corrientes region. The flames, reaching the town of Mercedes, 200 kilometers away from the capital Buenos Aires, also spread to the Agricultural Experiment Station (INTA), turning the station and 50 years of research into ashes. INTA member Violeta Hauck said in a statement that with the fire that burned more than 500,000 hectares of land, “95 percent of the fields were burned. All the agricultural experiments at the station were also destroyed,” he said. The animals at the station were also evacuated.
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In England, 39-year-old Daniel Graham and 32-year-old Adam Carruthers were each sentenced to four years and three months in prison for cutting down the 200-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland in September 2023. Judge Christina Lambert said the act was carried out “out of pure bravado.”
The tree, which also damaged a section of Hadrian’s Wall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was felled at night using a chainsaw and filmed by the suspects. Public outrage followed the release of the footage.