ATLANTA, Georgia, July 26 -- The Georgia Department of Community Affairs issued the following news: A total of more than $120,000 was awarded to eight Certified Local Government municipalities across Georgia, helping each community better support historic preservation activities. These federal subgrants are a product of the 2024 Historic Preservation Fund, a federal program managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service. The Historic Preservation Division of the Georgi  more

RIVERSIDE, California, July 26 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Mountain recharge powers growers' hidden reservoirs * * * New research shows that California's Central Valley, known as America's breadbasket, gets as much as half of its groundwater from the Sierra Nevadas. This is significant for a farming region that, in some parts, relies almost entirely on groundwater for irrigation. While it is easy to see above-ground reservoirs r  more

EXETER, England, July 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Exeter issued the following news: Rock art explored by archaeologists in the Colombian Amazon has provided an insight into the complex relationship between the earliest settlers on the continent and the animals they encountered. Spectacular ochre paintings of a wide variety of animal species, including depictions of animals and humans transforming into one another, indicate the rich mythology that guided generations of indigenous Amazonian  more