Poisoned gasworks site reborn as New England's largest solar array
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Iowa farmers trade crops for wind turbines, earning thousands per tower yearly
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Ten beachfront homes red-tagged at Dana Point as California proclaims statewide El Niño emergency to stage resources before winter storms
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Wind farm slowed blades to save bats, but still found 32 dead
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
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Study casts doubt on viral claim that teabags leak millions of microplastics
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Solar panels shade boosts pepper yields while cutting water use by 65 percent
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Soviet gas crater has burned for over 50 years in the desert
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Engineers use a simple pipe to prevent a deadly gas eruption from a Cameroon lake
By Justin Brown · Sep 22, 2026
Oceanographer tracked 28,800 lost bath toys across two decades of ocean drift
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