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A Snake Passes an Audition to Appear at the Metropolitan Opera
A boa constrictor named Princess has been chosen after an audition to appear in the Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in New York.
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Laid off in the pandemic, she fed calves; now she owns a 45-cow New York organic dairy
Melissa Moody, who had never sat on a tractor before COVID-19 cost her a job, bought Carl Hoellerer's organic dairy at Cincinnatus, New York, in February with a Farm Service Agency loan and the sale of her house, milking 45 cows on 127 acres with a mentor a phone call away.
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From Concrete City to Green City: How New York Is Changing
New York City has set a target of tree cover over about 30 per cent of its area by 2040 to cope with rising heat, building on the MillionTreesNYC programme that planted its millionth tree in 2015.