In 2026, John Boyer placed all 131 acres of his East Jordan, Michigan, farm into a conservation easement held by Little Traverse…
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Antarctica is Earth’s largest desert. Its high interior receives less than 50 millimetres of precipitation a year, almost entirely as…
Sep 5, 2026
Kyoto's cherry-blossom record stretches back to 812, and the earliest full-bloom date in all those centuries was March 27 in 1409 until the…
Sep 5, 2026
In 1905, the author of Peter Rabbit put her book royalties into Hill Top Farm in the Lake District, then bought Troutbeck Park in 1923 to…
Sep 4, 2026
The Eighth Circuit ruled that when a pipeline company exercises federal eminent domain power, federal law displaces North Dakota's statute…
Sep 4, 2026
In 2012, engineers in India's Gujarat state built one of the world's first solar arrays directly over an irrigation canal instead of on…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 4, 2026
In 2016, German researchers began raising a solar array five meters above a working farm field in Heggelbach, and when the first growing…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 4, 2026
In southern France, a company called Sun'Agri has bolted solar panels that tilt on command above rows of wine grapes, and in a trial…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 4, 2026
Across more than a dozen states, solar companies have stopped mowing the grass beneath their panels and instead lease flocks of sheep by…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 4, 2026
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands
Sep 3, 2026
The 26 August flood that has now killed at least 1,114 people in Nepal reached the last river gauge on the Narayani at a peak of 6.57…
Sep 3, 2026
Portugal collects used wine corks from shops, restaurants and other collection points and sends them for grinding and recycling into…
Sep 3, 2026