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Terra Daily
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After crews finished the largest dam-removal project in American history on the Klamath River, 7,700 fish passed the rubble of Iron Gate in three months — 96 per cent of them Chinook salmon, swimming into 650 kilometres of habitat no salmon had reached in more than a century.
At Altamont Pass east of San Francisco, about 60 golden eagles are still killed each year by wind turbines standing on a ridge that is also home to more than 200 of the birds — including 21 pairs that keep nesting inside the wind farm itself.
South of Miami, a nuclear plant’s 270 kilometres of cooling canals were never designed as habitat — yet they now hold the densest nesting ground for American crocodiles in the country, and last season crews tagged more than 600 hatchlings.
In California’s Mojave Desert, 350,000 heliostat mirrors focus sunlight onto three 45-storey towers that heat to nearly 540°C — and in the plant’s first year biologists estimated about 3,500 birds died after flying into what looked, from the air, like a lake.
Scientists thought Titan hid a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust. A reanalysis of decade-old Cassini data published in Nature in late 2025 suggests something stranger: a deep layer of icy slush hundreds of kilometres thick
Yellowstone’s returning wolves became famous for supposedly restoring forests and even reshaping rivers, but long-term research suggests the real ecological story is much more complicated
How does a desert country grow tomatoes, peppers, and dates on a fraction of the water its neighbours use, after a 1930s water engineer noticed a leaking pipe made a tree grow faster?
Researchers painted black cows with white stripes to test whether zebra markings deter biting flies — and the painted cows drew 50 percent less flies, adding weight to the theory that zebras evolved their colouring not for camouflage or heat, but as an organic insect repellent
Psychology says people who slip out of gatherings without saying goodbye aren’t rude or antisocial—they often learned somewhere along the way that leaving is a negotiation, and the only way to protect the good evening they just had is to not put it up for debate
After decades of spinning slightly ahead of the surface, Earth’s inner core has started to lag behind it — a shift visible only via earthquake data, linked to millisecond variations in day length and to deep-planet processes that also shape the magnetic field
Rocks the size of apples lying four kilometres down in the central Pacific hold more manganese and cobalt than every known land deposit put together — and mining firms are now competing to lift them out of an ecosystem so poorly studied that more than 90 per cent of its species have never been described
Psychology says “opposites attract” is one of the most repeated ideas about love and one of the most wrong — decades of research point the other way, toward people who share our values, backgrounds and view of the world
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