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Elk walk the same line down out of the snow every winter, and the 406,000 panel solar farm going up on that line had to buy 1,900 acres of replacement habitat before a post went in
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (784+ words) Somebody at the state wildlife agency read the site plan, looked at what that ground already does in winter, and wrote back with a list. It was not a rejection. It was a set of things the project had to…...
A bridge deck south of Lincoln carries 52 slabs of concrete mixed with steel shavings, and running the whole thing through a three day blizzard costs about 250 dollars in electricity
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (752+ words) The snow lands on the bridge and does not stay. On the road leading up to it the same snow is settling normally, an inch of it and rising, with tire tracks pressed into the top. The deck itself is…...
Americans toss out about 12 million tons of furniture a year, and the old sofas leading the pile are so fused together that barely a scrap of them can be recycled
14+ hour, 22+ min ago (806+ words) On a hot moving day in July, a couch sits abandoned at the curb. Its cushions are torn, one arm sagging, the fabric gone gray. By evening it will be hauled off with the rest of the trash. It feels…...
For the second time in 20 years, a telescope caught a star's dying "first breath" and found it had been quietly suffocating its own explosion
14+ hour, 5+ min ago (733+ words) When a massive star dies, its first announcement to the universe is almost impossible to catch. The core collapses, energy waves tear outward through layers of stellar material, and for a brief window — sometimes just seconds, sometimes hours — an X-ray…...
Bats declared nearly gone from hundreds of eastern American caves are still showing up on summer surveys and scientists are rethinking what that means
20+ hour, 5+ min ago (453+ words) At 69% of known hibernation sites across the eastern United States, northern long-eared bats vanished entirely within four years of White-Nose Syndrome’s arrival — a collapse severe enough to land the species on the federal threatened list in 2014. But when researchers placed…...
A 4,000 ton steel bridge rolled through a Hamburg neighborhood overnight on 1,088 wheels, and in places it had 16 inches of clearance from the walls of the buildings it passed
16+ hour, 10+ min ago (800+ words) Somebody had to unbolt the street signs first. Then the lamp brackets came off, and steel plates went down over the roadway, because the thing that was about to come through would not fit otherwise. It was a bridge. Not…...
Oregon authorized 406,000 panels, but left a 600-foot opening running through the facility so that the moose wouldn't have to go around miles of fencing
16+ hour, 5+ min ago (516+ words) One of the largest solar installations ever in the state has just been approved in Klamath County, Oregon. Developers need to work around animal movement corridors while delivering power to the grid as renewable energy expands across rural landscapes. What…...
A farm in Maine hung baskets of oysters from a floating conveyor belt that brings them up into the sun to clean them and then submerges them again
18+ hour, 5+ min ago (575+ words) It may seem like oyster farmers only have to place oysters in the water and wait for them to grow. Equipment requires constant attention. Barnacles and other organisms also attach themselves to it (biofouling). These tasks require a tremendous amount…...
They climbed onto a ship's rudder in Lagos after midnight and waited 15 hours for the engines to start, and 14 days later a police dinghy pulled up beside them off the coast of Brazil
18+ hour, 11+ min ago (817+ words) The boat that carried them out was small enough to be ignored. It crossed the harbor at Lagos after midnight, pulled in under the stern of a loaded tanker, and four men climbed the hull. Then they sat down and…...
Crews counted just 12 extremely rare plants in the Mojave Desert before installing millions of solar panels, and when scientists returned, they found 93
22+ hour, 5+ min ago (644+ words) Field botanists had an important job to do in a dry stretch of the Mojave Desert before construction crews were allowed to break ground on a solar project. Individual plant stems in the hard earth had to be marked and…...