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Marine life around an offshore wind turbine foundation in the waters off Taiwan.

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

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September 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Cows and calves grazing beneath CattleTracker solar panels at Silicon Ranch in Tennessee.

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

By Kevin Montien

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August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Ship operating beside an offshore wind turbine in dense fog at sea.

Ships sailing between offshore wind turbines face a problem that barely existed a generation ago, and with thousands more giant towers heading to European waters authorities are rethinking how vessels navigate through these artificial forests

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Floating solar panel system built on a circular salmon farming pen in southern Chile.

An island off Chile turned to solar panels floating on water for electricity, and the unusual installation shows what happens when renewable energy has to work somewhere ordinary land-based solar simply does not fit

By Adrian Villellas

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August 28, 2026 at 6:45 AM

Artist's impression of the proposed Mersey Tidal Power barrage across the River Mersey.

Britain wants to build a wall across a working river with 28 turbines, hold back a 33-foot tide and generate power for 120 years, but the giant project still has not been told exactly where to stand

By Adrian Villellas

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August 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM

An IceCube mDOM sensor is lowered into a deep borehole in the Antarctic ice.

IceCube’s detector spreads 5,160 light sensors across a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice between 1,450 and 2,450 meters deep, using Earth itself as a shield to catch neutrinos arriving upward from the northern sky

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Aerial view of solar panels installed on a former landfill in New Haven, Connecticut.

New Haven placed 1,900 solar panels on a former landfill, producing 1.4 million kilowatt-hours yearly for 200 homes and $1.5 million over 20 years, while 63 gigawatts of capacity wait across 4,312 closed sites

By Adrian Villellas

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August 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM

Aerial view of the Boswell Energy Center in Cohasset, Minnesota, where an 85-megawatt solar project is being developed.

Minnesota’s Boswell Solar project brings 177,675 panels and 85 megawatts to a coal-fired site, inheriting an old grid connection in a rare test of how infrastructure shapes renewable cost.

By Kevin Montien

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August 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM

Large piles of discarded wind turbine blades cut into sections for disposal.

Wyoming’s landfill holds 1,124 wind turbine blades, but a Missouri cement plant has already found a second life for 7,000 more

By Kevin Montien

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August 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM

PNNL chemist Chinmayee Subban demonstrates technology developed to extract magnesium from seawater.

Scientists say one thousandth of the ocean holds enough lithium and magnesium to last 50,000 years, but an Olympic pool of seawater shows why almost nobody can get it out

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Crane loads a rock-filled barge on a river, similar to the barges used to redirect Danube flow in Romania

Romania sank four rock-filled barges into the Danube to keep a nuclear reactor running, and the river rose an inch and a half when forecasters had expected a drop

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM

Technicians install rooftop solar panels on a residential home in Australia under the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme.

Australia’s clean energy regulator suspended 21 solar companies at once, and the artificial intelligence now checking battery photographs is what households should understand before signing a rooftop quote

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August 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM

Australian home with rooftop solar panels and a residential battery system.

Only 24% of Australian battery owners have joined a virtual power plant, and the reason is not the money, because those who joined cut their bills by up to 63%

By Adrian Villellas

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August 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant beside the Danube River in Romania.

Romania declares an energy alert as the Danube falls too low to cool its nuclear reactors, a climate-driven power crisis

By Adrian Villellas

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August 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM

Water released through outlet works at Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.

Glen Canyon Dam cools the Colorado River to stop invasive fish, a counterintuitive strategy that worked through 2024 and beyond

By Adrian Villellas

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August 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Rendering of the planned GW Ranch AI data center and natural gas power project in Pecos County, Texas.

Amazon builds a 35-turbine gas plant in Texas for its AI data centers, betting raw fossil power on artificial intelligence

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM

Offshore wind turbines surrounded by visible fog wakes at the Horns Rev wind farm in the North Sea.

On February 12, 2008, a Danish offshore wind farm produced strange white trails behind its turbines, and scientists discovered that the rotating blades were mixing the layers of air with enough intensity to contribute to fog formation

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August 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM

Golden eagle flying near an IdentiFlight camera system and wind turbines at a Wyoming wind farm.

Golden eagles over Wyoming may miss wind turbines, a blind spot in their vision that makes renewables unexpectedly dangerous

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Aerial view of China’s Three Gorges Dam surrounded by water and low clouds, illustrating the massive hydropower project.

China has already altered the Earth’s rotation with a mega infrastructure project and is now planning a project that will triple the power of the Three Gorges Dam

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August 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM

IQIP offshore wind hammer used to drive a massive steel turbine foundation into the seabed

A 700-ton hammer was built to drive gigantic wind turbine foundations into the seabed, and its 7,500-kilojoule blows show just how enormous offshore wind construction has become

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August 10, 2026 at 11:18 AM

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