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Ainura was born in Central Asia, spent over a decade in Malaysia, and studied at an Australian university before settling in São Paulo, where she’s now raising her family. Her life blends cultures and perspectives, something that naturally shapes her writing. When she’s not working, she’s usually trying new recipes while binging true crime shows, soaking up sunny Brazilian days at the park or beach, or crafting something with her hands.
Even when wind farms slow their turbines to spare bats, mortality remains stubbornly high—raising hard questions about whether the fix actually works.
Sep 23, 2026
Partial shade beneath solar panels doubled pepper yields and slashed water use, challenging a century of agricultural dogma about what crops actually need to thrive.
Sep 22, 2026
A teenager found a way to make plastic recyclable by printing temporary tracking tags that vanish in a hot bath.
Sep 22, 2026
Solar farms designed for wildlife are harboring nearly three times more birds than the conventional crops they replaced, challenging long-held assumptions about renewable energy and nature.
Sep 22, 2026
As farmland shrinks and solar demand soars, one Indian state found a way to generate power without sacrificing crops—by harvesting sunlight above water instead of earth.
Sep 4, 2026
Farmers thought they had to choose between growing food and generating solar power—German researchers just proved that land could do both, and do it better than either alone.
Sep 4, 2026
As climate change threatens Europe's wine regions, one French startup is betting that solar panels—not vines—should bear the brunt of the summer sun.
Sep 4, 2026
What started as a weed-control problem is becoming a thriving ecosystem where renewable energy and regenerative agriculture graze side by side.
Sep 4, 2026
What looked like an elegant solution to waste in 1972 became an ecological disaster that Florida is still paying divers to clean up fifty years later.
Sep 2, 2026
What began as creative waste disposal has transformed Delaware's barren seafloor into a thriving marine ecosystem—one rusted subway car at a time.
Sep 2, 2026
When a German mining company needed to relocate a machine the size of two football fields, they couldn't call a moving company—so engineers invented a way to make it walk.
Sep 2, 2026
A Cold War relic finds new purpose 212 feet below, engineered to rest on the seafloor with military precision rather than rust in a scrapyard.
Sep 2, 2026
The world remembers Chernobyl as a disaster frozen in time—but the harder engineering challenge came three decades later, when Ukraine had to physically entomb the still-dangerous reactor.
Sep 2, 2026
A monumental artwork forced engineers to reinvent how to move the unmovable across England's crowded highways.
Sep 1, 2026
