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A retiree who lent his land to a beekeeper is told to pay farm taxes — “I earn nothing from this,” he says, as the ruling sparks a heated national debate
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A retiree who lent his land to a beekeeper is told to pay farm taxes — “I earn nothing from this,” he says, as the ruling sparks a heated national debate

When a retiree lent a corner of his yard to a beekeeper as a favor, he was stunned to be hit with a bill after officials reclassified the plot and demanded farm taxes — “I earn nothing from this,” he says. The ruling has set off a heated national debate over what counts as agricultural use and how tax law should treat non-commercial stewardship.

Africa’s slow breaking: the rift you can already measure
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Africa’s slow breaking: the rift you can already measure

Though Africa seems stable, the East African Rift is already pulling the continent apart at measurable millimeters to centimeters per year, and modern GPS, InSAR and seismology let scientists track that slow motion in real time. Over thousands to millions of years those tiny shifts could reshape the landscape, but today they show up as earthquakes, volcanic activity and subtle ground deformation.

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