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60 years after Dutch elm disease devastated America’s 100 million iconic trees, now scientists have infected 6,000 young elms in a radical bid to bring them back In 1993, Barbra Streisand gave her $15 million Malibu estate to conservation; the 24-acre property was planned as an environmental research centre | World News In 1928, Al Capone bought a Miami Beach estate and spent about $200,000 fortifying it; after the mansion was demolished in 2023, its vacant site sold for $21 million Two Turkish-flagged vessels collide in Marmara Sea off Istanbul; 10 crew members unreachable In 2011, up to 30,000 rats were eradicated from Palmyra Atoll; five years later native tree seedlings jumped from fewer than 150 to more than 7,700