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In a challenge reminiscent of the 19th-century American folk song John Henry, UK polar explorer Tim Williamson, 23, will attempt to run faster than what reports refer to as “one of North York Moors Railway’s most prestigious steam engines”in a one-day, 16-mile race through North York Moors National Park in… Read the rest

Splashing around in water is fun. And no matter where you are on this grand planet of ours the rule is the same: if there is enough water people will find a way to have fun in it.
In his fly-fishing masterpiece The River Why… Read the rest, Oregon author David James

At 300 feet tall and 1,150 feet long, the Llyn Brianne Dam is the tallest dam in the UK. To call paddling down it in a kayak “death-defying” might just be an understatement. But that’s exactly what a group of paddlers did, launching themselves down a spillway, traveling at speeds… Read the rest

Long a symbol for wind energy and the turbines that dotted the coastline, Denmark was surpassed this week by the UK when the country became the world’s leader in generating electricity from offshore wind farms, according to the Guardian… Read the rest.
The construction of the wind farm near Skegness, Lincolnshire was