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Wind turbine blades stretching 264 feet each left a northern Colorado factory on 36 modified flat cars bound for a Texas port, in what the railroads involved called the lo…

Twelve wind turbine blades, each 264 feet long, made US rail history traveling from Windsor, CO to Brownsville, TX after ...
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A container ship lost all power in 75 mile per hour winds off western Newfoundland and was driven onto a remote rocky shore, where all twenty of its crew were airlifted off ...

A 2,478-container cargo ship lost all power in 75 mph winds off Newfoundland and grounded on the rocky coast. All 20 crew were rescued. Here's how it happ ...
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Ukrainian amateur astronomer discovered comet C/2025 R2 in SOHO images before perihelion

A Ukrainian amateur astronomer combing through SOHO images near the Sun spotted comet C/2025 R2 inside the solar glare, ...
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DNA from 436 water bottles inside four North Sea wind farms confirmed five shark and ray species present, including a basking shark found in winter

Scientists feared 139 Dutch offshore wind turbines would repel sharks. Instead, eDNA in 436 water samples confirmed 5 species ...
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At 5 of the world’s only rewetted peatland solar sites, one northern German bog was reflooded and fitted with panels, and the threatened bird count there beat the drain…

A German team rewetted a drained bog, installed solar panels on top, and ran 12 recorders for 8 months. Endangered meadow ...
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Crews seeded four nets of sugar kelp between 139 turbines 11 miles off the Dutch coast, and the water between the blades came up as a harvest nine months later

A crew planted sugar kelp inside a working Dutch wind farm 11 miles offshore, and the dead zone between 139 spinning turbines ...
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NASA satellite captured massive Australian desert bloom including threatened species after prolonged dormancy

Witness the stunning transformation of Australia's Murchison desert into a vibrant sea of flowers, visible from space, after ...
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Former Macedonian lignite mine now hosts 550-MW bifacial solar project with 950,000 panels

Near Ptolemaida in Western Macedonia, roughly 950,000 bifacial solar panels now cover a former lignite mine, with 550 MW of ...
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Michel Siffre spent 205 days alone in a Texas cave with no clock, and his sleep stretched at times to a 48 hour cycle

A French explorer spent 6 months alone in Midnight Cave, Texas, with no clock or daylight, and his body drifted onto a ...
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Two South Dakota supercells produced four-inch hail and 111-mph winds on August 11

Two supercells struck western South Dakota, producing hail up to 4 inches wide and wind gusts reaching 111 mph across ...
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A man of 81 ran 31 miles at a world record pace for men over 80, and his measured oxygen uptake proved the highest yet recorded in an octogenarian

An 81-year-old shattered the over-80 50km world record in Malaga, then lab tests found his muscle oxygen capacity matched men ...
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A 443 foot container ship grounded within yards of a cabin on the Trondheimsfjord shore, and the shipping company says the same vessel had run aground twice in th…

A 443-foot Norwegian container ship ran aground feet from a cabin in the Trondheimsfjord, sat stuck for 5 days, and turned ...