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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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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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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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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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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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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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California’s giant sequoias survived 3,000 years of drought, disease, and fire, then thousands vanished in just two summers—and scientists now know what could have saved them

Two consecutive fire seasons in 2020 and 2021 swept through California’s Sierra Nevada and killed thousands of giant sequoias — trees that had survived for centuries, some for more than three ...
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In Oklahoma, a wind farm created a “river of wind” stretching into the atmosphere as its turbines pushed air upward

In Oklahoma, a wind farm created a “river of wind” stretching into the atmosphere as its turbines pushed air upward, and the ...
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A small Florida town was hit by hurricanes Ian, Helene, and Milton, yet it never even lost Wi-Fi thanks to 687,000 solar panels, a giant battery, and power cables buried ...

Three major hurricanes slammed this community, but one unexpected decision kept residents online and connected when surrounding areas went dark for days.
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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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In Seattle, a round little raccoon named Jimothy turned one painting auction into a $50,000 flood of generosity that swept up Amazon, Starbucks, and an entire city

Somewhere in Seattle, a raccoon named Jimothy has been going about his business — waddling through neighborhoods, turning up on doorsteps, living his life. He has no idea that millions of people have ...
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Surveyors counted 132 Indus river dolphins in the entire river system at the low point, and the last full census put the population just under 2,000, in an animal that is ...

A blind dolphin in Pakistan's filthy Indus River clawed back from 150 to nearly 2,000 animals, saved by illiterate fishermen with a phone and a picture no ...