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A Chilean team clearing litter from an Antarctic beach 600 miles south of Cape Horn lifted a skull out of the sand, and the oldest human remains on the continent turne…

In 1985, a biologist found a skull on Yámana Beach, Antarctica. The bones dated to 1819–1825, making them the oldest human ...
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Engineers studying an 80 turbine offshore wind farm in the North Sea pointed a laser 3 miles upwind and found the air already slowing before it reached the first blade, b…

Engineers studying a floating wind farm in the North Sea discovered it may be slowing the wind before it even reaches the ...
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Microphones placed just 18 inches off the ground finally confirmed a bat species that European science had been chasing for nearly 200 years, revealing a “whispering ...

Discover how low-placed microphones confirmed the Egyptian slit-faced bat's presence in Europe, a species long sought by ...
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An over height load on Interstate 90 near Cle Elum wrecked an overpass that cost 8 million dollars to replace, and the driver held a permit that had told him to leave th…

A dashcam caught the moment a semi carrying an oversized tank missed its required exit near Cle Elum, Washington and ...
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Satellites checked 675 wind farms and 90,000 turbines across China and found the same strange rhythm: cooler ground by day, warmer ground after dark

Satellites checked 675 wind farms and 90,000 turbines across China and found the same strange rhythm: cooler ground by day, ...
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California wants to erase two century-old hydro dams from the Eel River, and engineers think thousands of salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey are waiting on the other side ...

Federal regulators are reviewing a proposal that would remove two dams from California's Eel River and reopen upstream habitat for migratory fish once again.
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An Oregon hydropower dam switched itself off for four months, and the water it would have turned into electricity became a safer road for young fish and bull trout …

An Oregon hydropower facility stopped generating electricity for four months so water could bypass turbines and provide a ...
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A crew in Neuchatel laid 48 solar panels flat between two live rails, and after 11,000 trains had rolled over them the strip had made every kilowatt hour it was supposed …

In Buttes, Switzerland, 48 solar panels now sit between active train rails on a 100-meter stretch, already generating ...
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Wolf bones from 2 animals in a cave on a Baltic island under a square mile carry the same seal and fish chemistry as the people who camped there, on ground with no l…

Two gray wolf skeletons found in a Swedish island cave reveal ancient humans transported wild wolves by boat and fed them ...
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Vatican farmland northwest of Rome runs to about 10 times the size of the country itself, and it will carry up to 90 megawatts of agrivoltaic solar with the crops still gro…

The agrivoltaic design is what makes it politically survivable, because a plant that ended farming on a thousand acres ...
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Mangroves fringing Mexico’s Gulf of California yield about $15,200 an acre each year in fish and crab landings alone, and the government valued the same ground at $410

A marine ecologist navigated Mexican lagoons in small boats, counted fish landings across 13 regions, and found that the ...
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Collared pronghorn crossing a Wyoming basin still walked within 0.6 miles of the turbines on 7 of every 10 migrations, and the resting places they gave up were the …

GPS collars on 166 pronghorn near 74 wind turbines in Wyoming's Shirley Basin revealed the animals kept migrating but shifted ...