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• 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
• NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto just once in 2015, but more than a decade later scientists returned to its old images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed across the frozen surface
• A Byzantine ship that had been sunk at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea for more than 1,300 years was discovered, and after recovering its 600 grams of gold, archaeologists realized that it was likely not carrying just any passengers
• 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
• One-third of global farmland drives two-thirds of environmental degradation, forcing a reckoning on agricultural concentration and land use reform
• Chicago’s mature trees cut peak temperatures by up to eight degrees on hot days, a cooling effect that prevents heat deaths across neighborhoods with canopy coverage
• Siberia’s summer methane emissions roughly doubled between 2010 and 2023, revealing how rapidly the region responds to warming and thaw