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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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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 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 ...
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A Portland power project could remove 376 trees from Forest Park, and the deal meant to save the grid has split conservation groups

Portland's deal with PGE would fell 376 Forest Park trees for $5.5 million in restoration, and conservation groups refused to ...
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Willow branches became rivers and canoes in Truman Lowe’s hands, and a Washington exhibition shows why his art still feels alive

Truman Lowe turned willow and memory into sculpture, and a Smithsonian retrospective traces his Ho-Chunk roots and ecological ...
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A river in the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to reach 86°C with no volcano nearby, and researchers found that every 1°C increase along its banks was linked to …

Peru's boiling river heats the forest around it, and each degree of warming there matches an 11 percent drop in tree ...
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A tiny European native oyster can filter about 200 liters of seawater a day and release up to 2 million larvae at once, yet its reefs have collapsed across much of Europe and ...

Europe's native oyster filters 200 liters of seawater daily, but populations fell 95% since the 1800s; reefs are now regrowing.
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A solar farm was built to harvest the desert sun, but tortoises began using parts of the enormous energy site as shelter and forced researchers to look at what happens when ...

Around 48 desert tortoises shelter under Nevada's Gemini solar panels, but shade is no proof the desert habitat has recovered ...