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A California solar plant is trying to coexist with tortoises, squirrels, owls, bumblebees, and Joshua trees, but the desert wildlife is not making it easy

A California solar plant is trying to coexist with tortoises, squirrels, owls, bumblebees, and Joshua trees, but the desert ...
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Every year on Florida’s beaches, more than 100,000 sea turtle hatchlings crawl the wrong way, and the blue glow of ordinary white LED bulbs is what points them inland

America switched roughly 4 billion sockets to LED bulbs to save energy, but the blue-rich light they cast into the night is ...
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An eyeless “demon” fish hid inside an Alabama cave for 30 years without anyone noticing, and scientists have finally found it

An eyeless “demon” fish hid inside an Alabama cave for 30 years without anyone noticing, and scientists have finally found it ...
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A climber sealed herself 230 feet under a Spanish mountain to spend 500 days underground, and by day 65 she had lost all track of time

A climber lived 230 feet underground for 500 days and lost her sense of time on day 65. Here's what that reveals about how ...
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Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72 percent, and the white tailed eagles under them stopped hitting the rotor…

Smøla is a low treeless island off the northwest coast of Norway, and 68 wind turbines stand on it. It also holds one of the ...
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On Oregon’s Leaburg Canal, a group of beavers broke into a 100-year-old hydroelectric dam and built another one for themselves until engineers had to find …

A group of beavers repeatedly built dams inside Oregon's Leaburg Canal, creating enough risk to a high-hazard waterway that ...
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A solar farm in Minnesota brought in 2,000 sheep and a guard donkey after overgrown vegetation blocked the panels and stopped them from generating power

A solar farm in Minnesota brought in 2,000 sheep and a guard donkey after overgrown vegetation blocked the panels and stopped ...
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Kitchens across America pour out 2 million gallons of used cooking oil every day, and the barrel a restaurant once paid somebody to haul away has become a locked tan…

A busy kitchen fills a tank in a couple of weeks, and one tanker route can empty a hundred of them in a day. Multiply that ...
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Handlers ignored the first alert from 2 Navy dolphins off Coronado, then divers brought up a torpedo the battleship Iowa had lost during target practice more than a century earlier

Navy dolphins have been doing mine work since the 1960s, and the unit still operates out of San Diego with bottlenose dolphins and roughly 50 sea lions.
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Pancake the sea turtle arrived barely able to swim, then spent seven months chasing shrimp in rehab before a New York beach gathered to cheer her back into the Atlan…

Pancake, the sea turtle, spent 7 months rehabilitating in New York before returning to the Atlantic. Join the celebration of ...
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Biologists needed 6 years to name the bumpy snailfish an underwater robot filmed at 10,722 feet, and that single encounter off California is still the only confirmed sighti…

An ROV robot dove 10,000 feet into Monterey Canyon and found a bumpy pink creature—one of 3 entirely new deep-sea species ...
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Wildlife teams in Nepal fitted 4 snow leopards with GPS collars and got 4,707 fixes back, and 3 of those cats crossed into India and China so often their ranges came o…

A GPS study of 4 snow leopards in Nepal revealed home ranges up to 97 times larger than estimated, with the cats crossing 3 ...