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Blades 502 feet long turn on the world’s biggest 26 MW turbine at a test base in Shandong, and the circle they sweep covers 829,000 square feet, about 14 America…

Dongfang's 26 MW turbine is the world's largest offshore wind turbine. Its massive steel base will become an unplanned ...
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Roughly 300 million US acres get glyphosate each year, and in a greenhouse test one dose cut earthworm reproduction by more than half in three months

Each spring, big sprayers roll out across farm fields and quiet suburban lawns. They mist the bare ground with the most common weedkiller on earth. By lunchtime the field looks tidy and under control.
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Tags on North Sea harbor seals showed 11 of them swimming inside 2 offshore wind farms, and 3 worked the turbines row by row like a grid, stopping at each leg to hunt

GPS tags on 118 North Sea seals revealed 11 hunting Sheringham Shoal's 88 turbines in a perfect geometric grid — a foraging ...
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Mussels spread 160 feet out from a turbine leg off Rhode Island inside 3 years, and the Jonah crabs turning up around those legs are why lobster boats out of Point Jud…

Rhode Island's offshore wind turbines have become accidental reefs packed with Jonah crabs, mussels and sea bass, and ...
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Deep beneath the Pacific, scientists spent 115 hours diving into one of Earth’s most volcanically alive seafloors — and pulled up something no one had ever seen

Deep beneath the Pacific, scientists spent 115 hours diving into one of Earth’s most volcanically alive seafloors — and found something never seen before. The Mariana Trench Marine National Monument ...
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Capuchin monkeys raising infant marmosets, langurs petting squirrels — primates may have been forming “pet” bonds long before humans

Discover how capuchin monkeys and other primates form deep bonds with different species, suggesting a long evolutionary ...
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When 12 steel towers went up 35 miles off Montauk, biologists knew what would follow, because black sea bass had already turned an older wind farm’s legs into a r…

South Fork Wind's 12 turbines off Montauk became an accidental reef in 18 months, drawing black sea bass, lobsters, and ...
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The real-life “Nemo” could no longer tolerate the warming ocean, so it began shrinking to avoid abandoning its anemone

The real-life “Nemo” could no longer tolerate the warming ocean, so it began shrinking to avoid abandoning its anemone. What ...
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Owls and harriers “shrunk” a New York solar farm from 750 to 530 acres because they needed the land to nest and hunt on the ground

Owls and harriers helped shrink a New York solar farm by more than 200 acres, but the real story began after the redesign was ...
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He has worked the 168 miles of cooling canals at a Florida nuclear plant with a headlamp and a mesh bag for years, and 606 American crocodile hatchlings passed …

In 2025, Turkey Point nuclear plant broke its 47-year record with 606 American crocodile hatchlings—25% of the entire US ...
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Shad and herring could not get past a Pennsylvania hydroelectric dam, so engineers built a fake river with rocks, slopes, and currents to trick them into continuing their migration

Migratory fish along Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River have faced the same problem for more than one hundred years. American shad and river herring are two species that migrate upstream as part of ...
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Biologist Fernanda Abra strung rope bridges above an Amazon highway and 15,000 animals crossed safely without a single death

Discover how biologist Fernanda Abra's rope bridges in Brazil saved 15,000 animals from roadkill, promoting wildlife ...