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Los Angeles searched the same reservoir eight times for an endangered songbird before approving 10 acres of floating solar, found no vireos, and counted 60 other …

No Least Bell's Vireos were seen during any of the eight protocol surveys, but biologists documented 60 other wildlife ...
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Detectors logged 50,000 echolocation calls across 19 English solar farms, and bat activity in the field centers fell 86 percent because the glass turns their sonar inside …

A study of 19 English solar farms logged 50,000 bat echolocation calls and found activity collapsed 86% in field centers.
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Moss concrete spread over a bare wall goes fully green in about 12 weeks, and the same wall left alone would have waited decades for the first patch to appear

Time softens it. Carbon dioxide works into the surface, turns that calcium hydroxide into calcium carbonate, and walks the pH ...
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They taped a square of aluminum foil over the stain and came back 2 days later, and the face the water had beaded on told them whether to call a builder or open a win…

Tape a 12-inch square of aluminum foil to a damp wall for 48 hours and check which side is wet. The answer tells you whether ...
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For 6 cents a square foot a green slurry can coat a bare slope, and grass breaks the surface within a week where bare seed would sit for a month

The spray is a slurry, mixed in the truck's tank and pumped out under pressure. Into the water go grass seed, a thick wad of ...
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Around 5,000 stones went into the sea off Belgium with oyster larvae already settled on them, and every one of them was rock that an offshore wind farm was going to …

Engineers are seeding oyster larvae into the scour-protection rocks around offshore wind turbine bases in the North Sea, ...
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Arkansas floated 96 solar panels on a rice reservoir along the Mississippi migration route, and now researchers are waiting to see what the ducks and geese do when they arrive

A new floating solar array is being tested at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart, Ark. The installation consists of 96 floating panels on a small portion of a 40-acre reservoir that ...
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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

A Maine oyster farm is testing a floating system that moves oyster baskets through the water and lifts them into the air to ...
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Crews counted just 12 extremely rare plants in the Mojave Desert before installing millions of solar panels, and when scientists returned, they found 93

Crews counted just 12 extremely rare plants in the Mojave Desert before installing millions of solar panels, and when ...
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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

Astronomers witness a star's dying breath, revealing unexpected silence and new insights into supernova events. Discover the ...
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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 th…

Four stowaways rode a cargo ship's rudder 3,500 miles across the Atlantic, surviving 14 days in the stern cavity before ...
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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

Americans throw out a staggering amount of furniture, about 12 million tons of it in a single recent year. Roughly four ...