A silver eel slides through a spinning turbine built around 131 test passages in a California tank, and every one swims out alive
NOV 2, 2026
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A flatbed hauling half a house stalled for three hours on a Dayton street, and crews freed it by jacking the trailer over the median with stacked lumber
NOV 2, 2026
A 15 foot orchard fan and a Texas wind farm both stir the night air, where one stops working at 5 miles an hour and the other has not started
NOV 2, 2026
A sports doctor taped one blister prone foot on 128 desert ultramarathon runners, and the thin paper tape sold in any drugstore cut new blisters by 40 percent
NOV 2, 2026
A Georgia plant recovers 96 percent of a solar panel’s value, yet fewer than one in ten retired panels nationwide ever reach a recycler
NOV 2, 2026
A weather balloon instrument fell into Lake Michigan off Washington Island after 2 hours in the air, but it needed another 115 days to reach a Ludington beach on the far shore
NOV 2, 2026
A 12.7 percent power loss showed up in a 98 foot wave tank in England, while the tilt behind it would cost half a percent by ordinary optics
NOV 2, 2026
About 400 turbine blades spent more than a year stacked in a field outside Ellsworth after the first plan for them fell through, which is how they ended up on trucks to Tennessee
NOV 1, 2026
Fitted to one home in ten in a small Ontario town, laundry filters cut microfiber levels leaving its wastewater plant by 41 percent
NOV 1, 2026
A swimmer crossed the 2.7 mile Bering Strait wearing only a bathing suit, and her core temperature did not start falling until she was halfway to the Soviet shore
NOV 1, 2026
Cameras watched a small tidal turbine for 109 days at the mouth of Sequim Bay, and only four fish struck the blades
NOV 1, 2026
A barge off Point Judith began listing with 2 flooded compartments, so its tug crew ran it aground near Bonnet Shores
NOV 1, 2026
484 young river herring swam through a reshaped hydropower turbine at a small Maine mill dam, and nearly all of them came out alive
NOV 1, 2026
Pipes at a New Zealand geothermal plant get dosed with calcium, and silica scale turns into loose rose shaped powder in milliseconds
OCT 31, 2026
A magnitude 5.2 quake under a Southern California mountain town was felt 130 miles away in Los Angeles, and it shook harder than a quake that size usually does
OCT 31, 2026
Volunteers pedaled gently in a sealed heat chamber, but their bodies lost the ability to cool at a wet bulb reading of 88 degrees
OCT 31, 2026
131 eels went through a compact hydropower turbine built for canals, and every single one swam out alive
OCT 31, 2026
A narrow Sierra foothill river sends the delta only about 3 percent of its freshwater, yet water managers credit its fall salmon runs with as much as half of California’s commercial catch
OCT 31, 2026
Wind turbines beside a shallow Dutch lake were ordered to stand still through daylight, twenty of thirty three machines, though only eleven have been cleared to spin again
OCT 31, 2026
A demonstrator blade with a 260 foot rotor swaps out just its worn front strip, which keeps the rest of the structure in service
OCT 30, 2026
A woodpecker cracked 25 car mirrors on one Massachusetts hill, and neighbors found it was attacking its own reflection
OCT 30, 2026
Lab tests in the UK show duct tape sealed out up to 98 percent of rising water through a door, far more than a wall of 54 sandbags
OCT 30, 2026
Cameras logged four million bird flights past a German wind farm’s spinning rotors, and almost none of the birds ever crossed into them
OCT 30, 2026
A typhoon’s 185 mph winds near Guam matched the year’s strongest, and the storm’s leftover energy is now pushing 29 foot seas toward western Alaska
OCT 30, 2026
Police off the German North Sea coast sawed a 66 foot piece of a broken wind turbine blade into sections before they could drag it aboard a patrol ship
OCT 30, 2026
Birders watched an empty osprey platform beside a busy Maine highway for two full seasons, then a pair moved in and raised 2 chicks
OCT 29, 2026
An expedition ship carrying 124 people missed a turn off Papua New Guinea in the dark, and it sat heeled over on coral for three days until a tug freed it
OCT 29, 2026
A maritime lawyer swam six tenths of a mile through freezing water at the North Pole, and his core temperature had already climbed to 101 degrees before he even touched the sea
OCT 29, 2026
A truck grazes the tip of a 305 foot wind turbine blade at a small town crossing, and the load still reaches its hilltop site by noon
OCT 29, 2026
A worn pair of jeans goes onto a conveyor belt at an Arizona plant, and it comes out as insulation lining walls in homes across the country
OCT 29, 2026
A laser strips the plastic backing off a worn solar panel in 12 seconds, and the glass and silicon come through uncracked
OCT 29, 2026
A cruise ship with 3,350 people aboard left its berth at Bremerhaven and came back with its lifeboats torn off their davits, while the container ship it touched was left with a crack about 33 feet long
OCT 29, 2026
A wind turbine blade over a Plymouth cranberry bog broke off after 9 years and landed hundreds of feet from the tower, but investigators have not said why
OCT 28, 2026
A barge canal on the Texas coast turned up 715,000 stray plastic pellets in one spot, so it outweighed every other site in a volunteer count combined
OCT 28, 2026
In a Kentucky cave 140 feet down, two men tried to live on a 28 hour day, and only the younger man’s body ever adjusted
OCT 28, 2026
A hole on an Oregon volcano reached 629 degrees and became the hottest engineered geothermal system on record, but it drew 135 million dollars before producing a single watt of electricity
OCT 28, 2026
A full truckload of sugar beets covered a North Dakota county road near a railroad crossing, and a nearby farmer cleared it in five minutes flat
OCT 28, 2026
Crews dismantled the 26 turbines of Scotland’s first commercial wind farm near Douglas, and a later review found that 99.9 percent of the material was recycled or reused rather than landfilled
OCT 28, 2026
A trench collapse left a utility worker chest deep in dirt 13 feet under a Potomac house, where the fastest way to reach him ran sideways through a basement wall instead of down
OCT 28, 2026
A drill near an Oregon volcano reached nearly two miles down in fifteen days, and one bit cut 3,578 feet of hot rock without being pulled from the hole
OCT 27, 2026
A glacial basin above Juneau emptied twice in one year and the second crest came in 4.5 feet under the first, while the plan to keep raising the sand walls that held has already been dropped
OCT 27, 2026
Climbers using gymnastic chalk hung from a climbing hold for roughly 14 seconds longer than they did with bare hands, yet the friction between their fingers and the plastic did not measurably change
OCT 27, 2026
A scrap dealer hauled 22,000 tons of metal off a retired wind farm near Fluvanna and wrote a seven figure check for it, but the blade fiberglass from the same teardown had to be paid to go
OCT 27, 2026
Steelhead that left Oregon’s upper Deschutes basin as juveniles swam a roughly 600-mile freshwater round trip and came back in numbers not seen since the dams went in, more than 950 adults in a single run
OCT 27, 2026
A 150 foot span in Old Town Maine dropped into the Stillwater River while crews poured its concrete deck, and the state has decided to pull out the composite girders it had already installed
OCT 27, 2026
Three turbines spin off Heligoland with blades built to dissolve in an acid bath, which frees the glass fiber and wood sealed inside
OCT 26, 2026
A Pennsylvania father spaced cords four inches apart on his windows four decades ago, and the birds that kept hitting the glass stopped almost entirely
OCT 26, 2026
A diver touched 1,090 feet off Dahab in about 12 minutes, which meant his climb back to the surface took him nearly 14 hours of decompression
OCT 26, 2026
A 2 foot turbine blade woven from bamboo over a block of grown fungus is about 95 percent biodegradable by weight, which is the only number its builders have published so far
OCT 26, 2026
A mountainside above a fjord south of Juneau dropped more than 80 million cubic yards of rock into the water, and the wave it raised climbed 1,580 feet up the opposite wall
OCT 26, 2026
