Kelly Lippke
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Meteorite that punched through a New Jersey roof carried ancient “brine chemistry” tied to life’s earliest ingredients
A helicopter dropped a full bucket of water on a black field in Sumatra and 3 minutes later the smoke was coming back up through the ground, and nothing on that surface had been alight in the first place
Biologists are searching reservoirs between Columbia River dams for a predator they hope never to find, testing the water for northern pike DNA before the fish can reach 13 protected salmon and steelhead runs
Under a Michigan road a 100 foot knot of cooking grease and flushed baby wipes hardened into a 19 ton clog, and crews had to saw the sewer monster apart by hand
Yellowstone’s oldest wolf-pack lineage left the park after an unusually mild winter, and its 12-year-old matriarch is now raising five pups in Wyoming where wolf hunting begins September 15
A satellite antenna bolted to the roof of 24 regional jets sat close enough to the cockpit radio that pilots got a burst of static after every call to air traffic control, and moving it a few inches fixed it
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
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