Two French astronomers spent seven years surveying a line from Dunkirk to Barcelona during the French Revolution to calculate the distance…
Sep 19, 2026
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
Forgetful squirrels plant thousands of trees each year by accident
Sep 19, 2026
Scientists grew living plants from fruit a ground squirrel buried 32,000 years ago
By Mal James · Sep 19, 2026
Carp in rice paddies feed the crop while controlling pests for 1,200 years
By Kiran Journals · Sep 19, 2026
40,000 tonnes of chemical weapons still lurk in Baltic fishing nets
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Henry Ford built an American town in the Amazon rainforest that never produced usable rubber
By Daniel Moran · Sep 18, 2026
Two cyclones triggered a locust plague that reached Kenya at its worst level in 70 years
By Kiran Journals · Sep 18, 2026
Beethoven's Für Elise transformed Taiwan's recycling rate from 5 to 50 percent
By Kiran Journals · Sep 18, 2026
Icebreaker had to rescue its own instrument from frozen Arctic seas
Sep 18, 2026
Melbourne's rail operator built track from recycled plastic waste at Richmond station
Sep 18, 2026
Temperature swings nearly three degrees in the same neighborhood
Sep 18, 2026
Galveston raised an entire city to escape the sea, then forgot it ever happened
Sep 18, 2026