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A Tennessee solar farm is testing cattle beneath moving panels, using a special “grazing mode” to create safer clearance for cows and calves while still generating enough electricity for roughly 500 homes, a commercial test of whether farming and solar power can truly share the same land
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Three intake gates at South Dakota’s Gavins Point Dam emerged from the Missouri River carrying about 75,000 pounds of zebra mussels and debris, revealing how a tiny invasive species can clog cooling systems and threaten hydropower serving roughly 68,000 homes
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
More than 120 years after Marie Curie’s experiments, some of her laboratory notebooks remain radioactively contaminated, but France’s national library says visitors behind glass receive essentially no additional radiation while the originals require strict handling controls because radium-226 has a half-life of about 1,600 years
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
At a 110-turbine Wyoming wind farm, AI-powered cameras can spot approaching eagles and automatically slow individual turbines, with one study estimating an 82% drop in fatalities, although later research found substantial uncertainty around exactly how much the system reduces deaths
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Nine flamingo chicks at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are revealing one of bird parenting’s strangest sacrifices: both mothers and fathers produce nutrient-rich red “crop milk” that can drain so much pigment from their bodies that the famously pink adults temporarily fade to nearly white
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Wind turbine blades are notoriously difficult to recycle, but Carbon Rivers demonstrated recovered glass fiber with 99.9% purity that could return to manufacturing, while recent cleanup concerns in Tennessee show that successful recycling depends on safely processing and actually selling the recovered material, not simply shredding old blades
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Americans throw away an estimated 50,000 mattresses every day even though more than 75% of their components can be reused, and Oregon’s first full year of statewide collection kept 134,000 mattresses and box springs out of the waste stream while recovering 5.9 million pounds of material
Published On: September 27, 2026 at 6:29 AM
