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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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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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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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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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Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a chapter from millions of years ago w…

Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a ...
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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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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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A new reactor turned bottles, bags and car plastics into hydrogen, and the carbon problem stayed trapped in solid material

One reactor turns unsorted bottles, bags and car plastics into over 90 percent pure hydrogen while trapping the carbon as ...
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Norway lowered a 22-ton desalination pod 1,640 feet below the sea, where natural ocean pressure helps it produce up to one million liters of drinking water a day whil…

Norway's undersea pod uses ocean pressure to cut desalination energy by up to half, but one million liters a day is still a ...
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Oregon built a wind, solar and battery site for 100,000 homes, but a 10-ounce endangered squirrel still decides when crews can dig

An endangered squirrel sets the rules at Oregon's wind, solar and battery site: 20 mph limits, spring surveys and no-dig ...