Los Angeles coated its streets with a gray reflective layer to fight extreme heat, and the pavement itself really did run more than 10…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 7, 2026
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
In 2017, scientists poured Rhodamine WT pink dye into Porter Hole Sink under Florida’s Lake Jackson
Sep 6, 2026
A commercial gas-powered leaf blower running for one hour can produce as much smog-forming pollution as a Toyota Camry driven 1,100 miles
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
More than 10 million dead trees are standing like tombstones along America’s Atlantic coast
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Archaeologists found a 1,200-year-old island in Fiji made almost entirely of discarded shellfish
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Scientists mapped beneath Utah’s Great Salt Lake and found a potentially vast reservoir of freshwater hiding under one of America’s…
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Canada built 44 bridges and tunnels across a single stretch of highway so that animals could cross without dying, and collisions with…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
About a tenth of what comes out of malt whisky production is spirit, while Scotland's malt whisky industry produces almost 750,000 metric…
Sep 6, 2026
President Trump's September 4, 2026 executive order directs USDA to widen three existing pathways
Sep 6, 2026
Africa's plan for an 8,000-kilometer wall of trees against the Sahara kept dying in the ground for years, and the approach that finally…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
An Australian solar farm has shared its rows with 1,700 merino sheep for three years, and the farmer says the fleece tests on wool growth…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
Namibia's capital has been drinking its own sewage since 1968, when eight years of pilot work produced a system whose current plant pushes…
Sep 6, 2026