A tidal platform in the Bay of Fundy could lift all 4 of its rotors out of the water, while the 2 machines that could not are still on the bottom years after their owners went broke
OCT 26, 2026
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A lab scale wave energy buoy rides a 342 foot indoor wave channel in Oregon, and devices like it convert only a small fraction of the wave power sweeping past them
OCT 25, 2026
A westbound freight spilled hundreds of tons of soybeans across a mountainside by Glacier National Park, so crews fenced and wired the slope against grizzlies
OCT 25, 2026
A recliner spun for 24 hours on a Pennsylvania centrifuge arm at double gravity, and the scientist riding inside came out extremely fatigued but able to walk and talk
OCT 25, 2026
Two 100 ton rotors fold upward on a floating turbine moored off Orkney, so a small workboat can reach them without a heavy lift ship
OCT 25, 2026
A former car plant in Elizabeth, South Australia, stacked 43 foot mushroom columns inside its old paint shed, which became step one toward a 500 million dollar parcel hub
OCT 25, 2026
Biologists net an endangered Atlantic sturgeon of more than 200 pounds in a narrow Maryland creek, the largest female ever recorded there
OCT 25, 2026
Walmart installed rooftop solar panels on more than 240 stores, and after 7 of those roofs caught fire the lawsuit it filed blamed the wiring and the inspections rather than the panels
OCT 25, 2026
Off France’s Mediterranean coast, engineers bolted 32 oyster shell cages onto one floating turbine’s underwater float, and it doubles as a fish nursery
OCT 24, 2026
A harbor machine in Baltimore pulled 63.3 tons of trash from one river mouth in a single rainy April, and among the bottles its belt has carried more than 10,000 stray sports balls
OCT 24, 2026
A lab sends twenty mosquitoes toward a scented hand inside a glass tube, and a floral perfume someone got as a gift keeps them away for two hours
OCT 24, 2026
A Maine riverbank turned silver with 3,000 dead river herring in one counted stretch, and the hydroelectric plant upstream stayed dark for the rest of the run
OCT 24, 2026
A mill generator weighing more than 683,000 pounds crawled across Maine from Jay to the coast over a week of overnight moves, crossing bridges only after crews laid temporary steel beams across them
OCT 24, 2026
Fish clogged the seawater intake at a 1,860 megawatt nuclear station on South Africa’s coast, and a cooling pump shut itself off for days
OCT 24, 2026
Drivers on a 27 mile ring road pass 2,000 concrete columns that somebody has been greening from the ground up, and the vertical gardens on one of them cost what 300 street trees would cost
OCT 24, 2026
A 13 acre Virginia solar field sized to power about 400 homes now also carries four beehives, and the roughly 180,000 honeybees inside them forage for miles across the farmland beyond its fence
OCT 23, 2026
Ocean overwash shut North Carolina’s Highway 12 near Rodanthe for days this week, cutting the only road link onto Hatteras Island while a mandatory evacuation order kept visitors off the island
OCT 23, 2026
A climber spent nearly 16 hours above 26,000 feet without bottled oxygen, then skied the whole way down Everest on unassisted lungs
OCT 23, 2026
A tower folds into a hay field in northern Missouri, and it is the fourth collapse at the same wind farm in two years
OCT 23, 2026
Workers are tearing out a 275 foot dam on Maine’s Royal River, a removal expected to reopen about 135 miles of river and tributary habitat and bring spawning alewives back upstream
OCT 23, 2026
A lab in Germany built a wind turbine blade whose leading edge peels off in one strip, after rain wore it down at 185 mph
OCT 23, 2026
A 120 foot snow fence in Wyoming is 12 sawn pieces of one turbine blade painted with 40 running horses, and whether it catches a single drift is not an art question at all
OCT 23, 2026
Technicians drive past 33 towers in a Swedish forest and find the third broken turbine blade on site, though each failure traces to a different cause
OCT 22, 2026
A four foot concrete block sinks into Long Island Sound, which is made partly from crushed glass meant to outlast ordinary seawalls
OCT 22, 2026
A steel habitat held one diver 205 feet down off La Jolla for 30 days, and his voice carried the first telephone call ever made from the ocean floor to a crew in orbit
OCT 22, 2026
A pulsed laser opens a retired solar panel on under 1 kilowatt hour of electricity, and a short chemical cleanup afterward brings back 97 percent of the silicon and silver locked inside
OCT 22, 2026
Hail the size of golf balls hit a Nebraska reservoir and injured more than a hundred resting gulls, but rescuers pulled 55 of them alive off the shoreline
OCT 22, 2026
Alberta diverts 80,000 tons of retired solar panels from its dumps, charging a fee on every new one sold
OCT 22, 2026
A flatbed hauling a load 1 inch under the height its oversize permit allowed struck an Eagle River overpass anyway, and the state went out to remeasure every bridge on the Glenn Highway
OCT 22, 2026
A Dutch lab fired pulses of light at 97 percent of a retired panel’s cells, and the glass lifted away whole instead of shattering
OCT 21, 2026
A towboat pushing fifteen barges eased toward an Ohio River bank to let a bigger tow pass, and it grounded on a stone jetty hidden under 19 feet of water
OCT 21, 2026
A lab volunteer who could manage 180 pull ups in a session reached more than 620 in six weeks of cooling one palm between sets, though later trials have not repeated the effect
OCT 21, 2026
A retired rooftop panel gets priced like scrap glass, but its hair thin silver lines run at 500 parts per million, rivaling a mine’s cutoff grade
OCT 21, 2026
A Massachusetts teenager built a desktop machine that melts failed 3D prints and old plastic bottles back into printer filament, and it took second place at the world’s largest high school science fair
OCT 21, 2026
A 2.75 inch ball of ice landed 1.6 tons of force on a sensor bar in a Swiss lab, while the mandatory test for solar glass uses a stone one twentieth that weight and warmer ice
OCT 21, 2026
A 3 man crossing on a ship’s rudder ended at a Canary Islands pier after 11 days of spray and cold, but the ledge they rode is the one part of the hull nobody can check before sailing
OCT 21, 2026
Floodwater tore out a stone bridge in the Yorkshire Dales overnight, so crews rolled in two 20 foot steel tubes built for a scrapped wind farm
OCT 20, 2026
A floating barge with cartoon eyes pulls 19 tons of storm trash from a Baltimore stream in one day, and crews once found a live python riding it
OCT 20, 2026
A 4 point pain scale came from one man letting insects sting his own skin, where two of the three at the top are wasps and the ant wins only on time
OCT 20, 2026
A single steel foundation in the North Sea sheds nearly 6,000 pounds of mussel biomass a year, and the falling shells build a new layer of hard ground on the soft seabed beneath it
OCT 20, 2026
A 499 ton tuna freighter flipped upside down off Noonu Atoll, and it took weeks of airbag work before sharks and turtles moved in
OCT 20, 2026
A steel platform stands on three piles in a Massachusetts canal, and it tests tidal turbines in real ocean currents for about $30,000 a day
OCT 20, 2026
A rainbow collar slipped over the one 94 hunting cats already wore sent the birds they brought home down by nearly two thirds, and the small mammals kept arriving at the same rate
OCT 20, 2026
Brine at California’s Salton Sea geothermal plants holds 198 parts per million lithium, but a pilot meant to capture it fell short of its goal
OCT 19, 2026
A shallow fault moved sideways under Panama, and tsunami waves still flooded 600 islanders off their land for a week
OCT 19, 2026
Young men who lived on about 1,570 calories a day for 24 weeks stayed ravenous long after their weight came back, with some later eating 11,500 calories in a single day
OCT 19, 2026
Crews track fish through a dam’s 46-foot spiral turbine in Connecticut, and every one comes out alive
OCT 19, 2026
A homemade eel ladder on an old mill dam west of Baltimore counted just 53 climbers in one season, and the yearly tally later climbed past 36,000 young eels
OCT 19, 2026
Biologists netted a 70 pound lake sturgeon below a Missouri River dam and found a tag the size of a rice grain showing the fish had moved 681 miles upstream in nine years
OCT 19, 2026
Wildlife teams in Nepal fitted 4 snow leopards with GPS collars and got 4,707 fixes back, and 3 of those cats crossed into India and China while the mapped ranges came out up to 97 times bigger than estimated
OCT 19, 2026
