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Colorado’s black bears are flooding into neighborhoods at record rates, raiding trash cans and breaking into homes as drought strips their forests bare, and drought is o…

Discover why Colorado's black bears are entering neighborhoods at record rates due to drought and hyperphagia, and learn how ...
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Piles of concrete pipe were dropped around 1 turbine foundation off the Dutch coast and tagged cod moved in and stayed, where the flat swept sand around them offer…

Researchers dropped concrete pipes beside a wind turbine off the Dutch coast, tagged 64 cod, and found the fish returning to ...
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Mount Washington has about two weeks until clouds start freezing onto the summit like white feathers, and September is also when its first snow usually arrives

Mount Washington has about two weeks until clouds start freezing onto the summit like white feathers, and September is also ...
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Crews boomed a coastal Washington creek in 4 places after a tanker left the highway above it and put gasoline in the water, while the returning salmon were sent straigh…

A tanker flipped into Indian Creek near Port Angeles, spilling nearly 3,000 gallons of fuel. Investigators counted 2,130 dead ...
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Norway put a floating solar farm beside a salmon farm on the edge of the Arctic, and within weeks the diesel generator had almost nothing left to do because the panels …

A floating solar system installed at a Norwegian salmon farm reduced diesel generator use so dramatically that the company ...
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A plant in Magdeburg takes 1 old solar panel apart in the order it was built and recovers 98 percent of its weight, where a shredder handling the same panel would …

A German plant in Magdeburg uses heat and mechanical force — no chemicals — to recover 99% of a solar panel's weight, ...
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Matted fiber leaves the screens at 14 New York sewage plants packed hard enough to hold the shape of the pipe, while the flushable label that takes the blame is on a f…

NYC's treatment plant screens caught 53,000 tons of "flushable" wipes in one year. Here's what really happens once they leave ...
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Sea turtles can navigate 6,000 miles across open ocean using Earth’s magnetic field and unerringly return to the exact beach where they were born yet something keep…

Discover how sea turtles navigate thousands of miles and the modern threats disrupting their ancient instincts. Learn about ...
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A 26-foot whale shark left Tampa Bay with a satellite tag, looped through Cuba and Honduras for a year, and a cloud of fish eggs may finally explain why these giants k…

A tracked 26-foot whale shark's year-long journey through Cuba and Honduras reveals why these massive gentle oceans giants ...
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Solar farms on 2 retired Minnesota fields seeded native prairie beneath their panels, and the native bee count ended up roughly 20 times higher while total insect numb…

Scientists planted wildflowers under 2 Minnesota solar farms, watched for 5 years, and found native bees multiplied 20 times ...
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Scientists drifted past Orbital’s giant tidal turbine 45 times with underwater microphones because the animals around it may hear the machine long before any…

Scientists drifted past Orbital’s giant tidal turbine 45 times with microphones because the animals around it may hear the ...
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Volunteers who spent 5 days lying on a membrane over warm water lost 11 percent of the force in their legs, but the thigh muscle doing that work had shrunk by only …

Twelve volunteers floated in a warm pool on a waterproof membrane for 3 days and their leg muscles lost 11 percent of their ...