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A Portland power project could remove 376 trees from Forest Park, and the deal meant to save the grid has split conservation groups

Portland's deal with PGE would fell 376 Forest Park trees for $5.5 million in restoration, and conservation groups refused to ...
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Arizona covered a desert canal with 2,556 solar panels, and the first U.S. pilot is testing whether expensive shade can save water

Arizona's first solar-covered canal makes power and shades irrigation water, but the promised evaporation savings are ...
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One of the world’s rarest primates survives among the limestone cliffs of northern Vietnam, where the remaining Delacour’s langurs are hanging on in fragmented ha…

Van Long holds up to 184 Delacour's langurs, the largest viable group, while snares and seven limestone quarries still press ...
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An aerial photo warned an Austin homeowner her insurance could vanish, and the tree branches it spotted cost her $3,000

An aerial photo put an Austin woman's home insurance at risk, forcing her to spend $3,000 trimming trees to keep her coverage ...
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A solar farm was built to harvest the desert sun, but tortoises began using parts of the enormous energy site as shelter and forced researchers to look at what happens when ...

Around 48 desert tortoises shelter under Nevada's Gemini solar panels, but shade is no proof the desert habitat has recovered ...
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A dog waited nearly a year in a San Diego shelter after her owner fell into a coma, and one familiar face online changed everything

A dog spent nearly a year unadopted while her owner recovered from a coma, until an online shelter listing brought them back together ...
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NASA still has no year for the first human Mars landing, and the missing date reveals why the real countdown has not begun

NASA still has no date for the first human landing on Mars, revealing how many critical pieces of the mission remain ...
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Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made a…

Firefighters expected to rescue ducklings from a dumpster, but instead found Jack, a friendly puppy who needed a second ...
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A zircon grain found in Western Australia’s Jack Hills is 4.4 billion years old, making it the oldest known terrestrial mineral grain

A tiny zircon from Western Australia survived 4.4 billion years, preserving clues to an Earth far different from what ...
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A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

A handwritten clue led divers to the Phoenix, a 1680 shipwreck whose recovered coins and jewelry are now becoming public ...
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A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, testing whether clean energy and cattle can share the ...
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Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures ...

Fish gather around an offshore wind foundation in Taiwan, where hard surfaces have developed reef-associated marine ...