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A school of fish found an "underwater skyscraper" beneath an offshore wind turbine and instead of swimming away, more than 29, 000 gathered around it
5+ hour, 25+ min ago (579+ words) The vast, underwater desert of the North Sea is a landscape hidden to all but a minute few. Then imagine the stillness shattered by something human-made, massive, and intrusive. The industrial shockwaves resonate for miles. We would expect marine life…...
A truck hauling a blade the length of a Boeing 747 inches through a Colorado mountain town at midnight, and the giant machine waiting to replace that convoy is forcing engineers to rethink the sky itself
3+ hour, 36+ min ago (648+ words) Wind turbine blades have been growing for decades, and for most of that time the roads kept up. Engineers learned to widen loads, reroute convoys around tight bridges, and slip through small towns in the dead of night. But the…...
The ocean current that keeps US winters mild has been sliding north for decades, and scientists say it is trying to tell us something no one expected
6+ hour, 34+ min ago (786+ words) Every winter, millions of Americans along the East Coast pull on a coat instead of a parka, pour their coffee and head to work without giving the Atlantic Ocean a second thought. The ocean is just out there, doing its…...
Three divers died guessing what it was, and the World War II submarine they found off New Jersey was never supposed to be there
7+ hour, 25+ min ago (550+ words) A submarine wreck off New Jersey that divers have discussed for years did not appear to be typical of others. It was found well outside the area most would consider normal today. As each dive took place, additional questions arose....
A solar farm was built to produce electricity, but the ground beneath the panels quietly began doing something no one planned for
11+ hour, 3+ min ago (861+ words) For years, one worry has shadowed the rise of solar power. To make serious amounts of electricity, you need'serious amounts of land. And the critics have a point. Large scale solar farms swallow real space, and the fear is simple:…...
Yellowstone's wolf count just fell to its lowest in years, and the $82 million secret it keeps is forcing economists to rethink what a predator is really worth
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (749+ words) Yellowstone National Park's wolf population declined at the end of last year, with the official count landing at 84 wolves in eight packs, down from 108 wolves in nine packs at the end of 2024. Pup survival was especially grim: the Wapiti pack,…...
An offshore wind farm in Rhode Island was built to generate power until thousands of black sea bass turned it into an artificial reef
11+ hour, 24+ min ago (598+ words) America's first offshore wind project was hardly welcomed with open arms." Skeptics' greatest fear was that local fisheries and ecosystems would be destroyed." A groundbreaking seven-year study was carried out to find out if this was true. Nearly a million…...
Florida promised to restore a quarter of its famous reef by 2050, and then the funding ran dry, leaving an $8. 5 billion lifeline hanging
14+ hour, 24+ min ago (711+ words) Just below the surface off Key West, a diver presses a thumb-sized fragment of staghorn coral against a bare reef ledge and holds it there, perfectly still. This single gesture, repeated thousands of times across seven sites in the Florida…...
Across 124 British solar farms, surveyors kept spotting the same large animal racing between the panel rows, a creature that has all but vanished from the open fields around them
17+ hour, 41+ min ago (769+ words) Just after dawn, a solar farm in the English lowlands is almost silent. Long rows of dark panels stretch across the grass, and a thin mist hangs over the ground between them. Then something bolts. A large, long limbed animal…...
Artificial grass looked like the safest, cleanest place for small children to play, and the real catch only shows up once you learn what is woven into every blade
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (747+ words) Picture a toddler crawling across a flawless green lawn behind a daycare, knees pressed into the soft plastic blades, a parent watching from a sunny bench a few steps away. It looks like the cleanest, safest surface a small child…...