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Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures ...

Fish gather around an offshore wind foundation in Taiwan, where hard surfaces have developed reef-associated marine ...
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Scientists painted one blade black on wind turbines on a Norwegian island and watched what happened to white-tailed eagles, turning an almost ridiculously simpl…

Scientists painted one turbine blade black in Norway and found a striking drop in bird collisions, including white-tailed ...
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Great Britain plans to build a 22.5-kilometer-long tidal barrier, consisting of 206 giant concrete caissons and 125 turbines, which would generate enough electricity for ab…

UK's West Somerset Lagoon would use 206 floating concrete caissons and 125 turbines for tidal power, but still needs years of ...
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A French winegrower put 6,000 solar panels over his vines, and the hardest climate trade-off may be the name on the bottle

A French winegrower gave up his Cognac-area certification for solar panels that shield the vines from hail, frost and extreme ...
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Ford covered the roof of its enormous Rouge factory with living plants instead of conventional roofing, and years later the industrial site has become an unlikely habit…

Ford covered its enormous Rouge factory roof with living plants, creating an unlikely wildlife habitat above a working auto ...
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NASA still has no year for the first human Mars landing, and the missing date reveals why the real countdown has not begun

NASA still has no date for the first human landing on Mars, revealing how many critical pieces of the mission remain ...
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Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made a…

Firefighters expected to rescue ducklings from a dumpster, but instead found Jack, a friendly puppy who needed a second ...
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Arizona covered a desert canal with 2,556 solar panels, and the first U.S. pilot is testing whether expensive shade can save water

Arizona's first solar-covered canal makes power and shades irrigation water, but the promised evaporation savings are ...
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Most people struggle to hold their breath underwater for two minutes, but the Bajau can spend up to five hours a day diving and working beneath the sea after generati…

Bajau divers can spend hours working underwater, and scientists found an unusual biological adaptation that may help explain ...
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Between 69 and 72 million years ago, a vast sea covered what is now South Dakota, and fossils found there still have iridescent shells that shimmer like pearls after all th…

South Dakota's iridescent ammonites come from a sea that once split North America, and marine fossils turn up in every U.S.
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Archaeologists uncovered eight 8,000-year-old storage pits in Spain, but the deeper layers held an even rarer surprise, remarkably preserved traces of the last hunter-ga…

Storage pits and hearths at a Spanish rock shelter capture the shift from hunting to farming, with layers dated across 1,500 ...
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A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, testing whether clean energy and cattle can share the ...