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A serious multiyear drought resulted in extremely low water levels behind Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona. Lower lake elevation behind the dam allowed larger increases…
A golden eagle hunting over Wyoming sage does one thing almost the whole time. It looks straight down, scanning the ground for a rabbit or a prairie…
Ships navigating near offshore wind farms are encountering a hazard that was never there before. Thick sea fog has been forming downwind of turbines in waters…
Deep within the Mojave Desert is one of the country’s biggest solar farms. This is where electricity is produced by capturing sunlight under the Nevada sun.…
Out in Val Verde County, far past the last gas station before the Texas Mexico border, the Devils River runs through canyon country most Americans have…
The New England summer heat means fruit growers have to rethink how they manage their fields. Managers of an agrivoltaics installation in Massachusetts went the route…
The technology behind weather radar has been designed to locate rain being moved across the land. It has become a vital tool for farmers. They use…
A diver drops through 80 feet of green water off the west coast of Taiwan, and the bottom comes up flat, pale and featureless. Sand runs…
Only months after the dams were removed, an unexpected visitor appeared upstream. One salmon isolated from those waterways for decades managed to migrate back upstream. The…
A commercial solar facility in Middle Tennessee is putting agrivoltaics in the spotlight. Operators recently launched a project that combines power with livestock. Solar infrastructure at…
For the rest of the migration season, the Trail Bridge Powerhouse will serve fish before electricity. An Oregon hydroelectric plant has effectively hit “pause” until the…
Thirty-six owl chicks hatched beneath an Arizona solar power plant. No one ever intended the site to become an owl nursery. The facility was built to…
The water runs fast and green between two concrete walls in Stanislaus County. Above it, a steel canopy stretches the full width of the channel. The…
There is a change happening in the atmosphere above the Oklahoma plains that no one thought of before wind farms were installed there. The turbines are causing…
Animals and mountains rarely influence how solar farms are built. Yet in Northern Virginia, engineers encountered a unique set of circumstances due to the land. The…
n a low dirt berm between two canals, twenty five miles south of Miami, something has dug a hole and laid eggs in it. The nest…
The expansion of offshore wind energy in response to international climate targets means more work for marine atmospheric researchers. They are paying much closer attention to…
Animals don’t usually get this excited about food. But pronghorns do, and the way they run down the trail is incredible. These animals are the fastest…
It sounds like a power station. Row after row of dark glass panels, angled at the sky, bolted into what used to be a meadow or…
There are bound to be complications when clean energy facilities expand into wildlife zones. After a section of heavily forested land was cleared for a solar…
When a hydroelectric dam released 950 steelhead downstream, more than 600 returned. They made it back to their natal stream after nearly two years in the…
Drive northeast out of Aix en Provence and the road climbs into limestone and scrub. Oak, rosemary, thyme, white rock, and heat lifting off the ground.…
There is a river in Tibet that drops 6,500 feet in just 31 miles. For decades, engineers looked at that canyon and imagined what it could…
Rural farmland properties across America are turning into vital sources of clean power as wind energy expands. However, recent atmospheric assessments around major turbine installations overseas…
For nearly one hundred years, migratory aquatic life had been severely hampered by large barriers within river systems. However, the creation of large hydroelectric structures severed…
On a September day in 2025, a crowd gathered along a farm road in Madison County, New York, and watched history fall. Seven steel towers, each…
Two rescued raptors have been released into a utility-scale energy project in Milam County, Texas, after completing a 97-day rehabilitation program. Developers are constantly battling interference…
The desert sky above New Mexico holds a great deal of heat. The challenge, however, has always been how to store that heat after dark. A…
Offshore wind is expanding further and further offshore. The deeper waters off the Scottish coast are no exception, where the clean energy boom has seen several…
For over two decades, a salmon population in Washington state has been dwindling away. The fish were returning to the same waters their ancestors had used…
The North Sea is one of the most heavily fished stretches of water on Earth. Atlantic cod, once the backbone of its fishing industry, have spent…
Environmental technicians had to do routine wildlife checks on a commercial wind farm in eastern Washington. They were checking on bird and bat impacts. Instead, ground…
A spring evening settled into the Mason County, Illinois countryside. Engineers were evaluating the local farmland they had selected as a potential site for a proposed…
The deep ocean is changing as we install clean energy structures in waters where industry has never reached before. Offshore platforms are reaching increasingly more remote…
Massive circular holes measuring roughly 60 feet across sat beneath the wind turbines. Most people noticed the towers above them. Much less attention was paid to…
Every spring, tens of millions of migratory birds lift off from America’s wetlands and start reading the land below like a map. They have done it…
The expansion of renewable energy worldwide is accelerating, and now wind turbines are presenting an ecological challenge we did not plan for. Conservationists are starting to…
A raccoon entered the area through a broken section of the perimeter security fence. Once inside, it disappeared beneath rows of solar panels. The site was…
The sharp drop in rainfall across South Carolina means river flows are reduced, and it is causing a crush below the St. Stephen Dam. Diadromous fish…
Wind turbines are usually built to solve an energy problem. But in one remote Alaska village, they created a completely different challenge. Electricity cannot simply be…
When thousands of acres of Californian rangeland were cleared for solar power, environmentalists got involved. The site overlapped with the habitat of the threatened California red-legged…
Wind turbines have become an extremely common sight throughout the state of Iowa. Fields of corn and soybeans now grow alongside these tall structures, each turning…
A wind farm off the coast of France was undergoing standard inspections when engineers picked up something not so standard. The mooring lines were covered in…
The Alaskan terrain appeared as if it were immobile, with snow layered across the ground and ice extending into the distance. It seemed like a good…
About eighteen miles off the coast of Rhode Island, a row of white towers rises from the Atlantic. They are wind turbines, each one taller than…
The sub-Antarctic Bird Island off the coast of South Georgia has just gotten a solar-powered tech upgrade. But it is not about electricity generation; it is…
Winter is unforgiving across Wyoming’s open plains, where snow blankets the grass and bitter winds sweep across the rolling hills. Generations of pronghorns have traveled across…
Something had been frightening people for years before anyone thought to check the numbers properly. Thousands of American families living near wind turbines reported headaches, sleepless…
Picture a field of solar panels in the English countryside at dusk. The last light fades, and small shapes flit above the glass. They are bats,…
A few weeks ago, the federal government cut a deal that made headlines across the country. Nearly a billion dollars in refunded fees went to a…
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