Emile Perreira
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A ring of floating solar around a Chilean salmon farm erased 36,750 gallons of diesel a year, and the generator that roared over the pens day and night finally fell silent
Miles beneath the Arctic permafrost, a hole is emitting carbon to the ocean, and the seafloor is quietly swallowing most of it
A crumbling stream bank usually gets armored with concrete, but a 12 inch roll of coconut husk staked along the edge slows the current and drops its silt until native roots take over the bank
GPS tags mapped 17 woodcock crossings over the Gulf of Maine and revealed three invisible routes, with four flights reaching future turbine-blade height even though more than 88% of the birds would miss the wind sites entirely
Across 60 miles of upstate New York a flatbed clipped more than a dozen overpasses in one afternoon, and the bridge strikes left every span open to traffic while the driver apparently felt nothing at all
Wildlife crews found 10 endangered caterpillars in Lānaʻi City, then discovered the same giant Hawaiian moth on Molokaʻi for the first time since the 1940s
German engineers shrank a wind turbine to the size of a satellite dish and under 44 pounds, and their single blade rooftop turbine just became the first of its kind to pass full independent certification
A 240 foot freighter ran into an offshore wind turbine in the German North Sea at 9 knots with the autopilot still steering, and two separate alarm systems stayed silent while it happened
Baffin Island’s ancient ice cap, a frozen relic older than civilization, ran out of snow in the middle of summer for the first time ever recorded
Freshwater fish sampled at 501 points across American rivers and the Great Lakes carried forever chemicals at a median 278 times the level in supermarket fish, and every Great Lakes sample came back contaminated
A robot spent 10 days hunting glowing animals between Monterey and the Channel Islands, then found a 130-foot “ghost” with elaborate lures that science still does not have a name for
Two hairy legs stuck out of a bamboo fence 3,000 feet up in Ecuador’s Andes, and the fast and foul tempered spider a researcher pulled free turned out to be a new species he named after Satan
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