Since 2008, the Dutch city of Heerlen has used water in its flooded former coal mines to heat and cool homes, shops and offices
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 25, 2026
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Winter bee clusters suffer most on the outside, not the center
A century of beekeeping wisdom may have misidentified which bees suffer most when winter comes—and blamed the wrong culprit for forcing them to huddle.
By Kiran Journals · Sep 25, 2026
Offshore wind turbine blade failure closes Nantucket beaches, triggers $10.5M settlement
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 24, 2026
Abandoned rapeseed field became home to 86 plant species in 11 years with no help
By Natural History · Sep 24, 2026
France's dam demolition freed Atlantic salmon to spawn upstream for first time in decades
By Kiran Journals · Sep 24, 2026
Hundreds raced to climb Uluru before Australia banned it forever
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 23, 2026
Poisoned gasworks site reborn as New England's largest solar array
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
Iowa farmers trade crops for wind turbines, earning thousands per tower yearly
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 23, 2026
Ten beachfront homes red-tagged at Dana Point as California proclaims statewide El Niño emergency to stage resources before winter storms
By Lab Report · Sep 23, 2026
Cocoa prices nearly tripled as West African drought upended the chocolate supply chain
By Kiran Journals · Sep 23, 2026
Wind farm slowed blades to save bats, but still found 32 dead
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
Wind turbine material promised a sweet second life as gummy bears—what happened next
By The Long View · Sep 23, 2026
Study casts doubt on viral claim that teabags leak millions of microplastics
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 22, 2026