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Amazon will fund the development of 12 small nuclear reactors on the site of a former coal plant on Indiana’s Wabash River, 960 megawatts in all, but no decision t…

A former coal plant on the banks of Indiana’s Wabash River could one day hold a dozen nuclear reactors. On October 19, Amazon ...
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Shells left after a seafood dinner can become a gel for zinc batteries that lasted more than 1,000 cycles, and the most surprising part is what happened to it in soil

Zinc batteries could use a gel made from crab and shrimp shells that ran beyond 1,000 lab cycles and broke down in soil ...
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Scientists hauling nets across the Barents Sea have counted 304 species, including slow-growing sponges that may be older than anyone on board, and what worries t…

Barents Sea survey nets 304 species and possibly century-old sponges, while scarce capelin raises concerns for cod, seals, ...
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The Pacific is heating up and El Niño could become one of the strongest in modern records, and what worries aid agencies most is what it could mean for 49 million pe…

El Niño is strengthening fast, with NOAA putting the odds of strong to very strong conditions lasting into early 2027 above ...
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Centuries-old human waste buried beneath Dutch cities is revealing what families cooked for 350 years, and the real dinner was not the potato-and-meat plate every…

Centuries-old human waste from 51 Dutch cities shows families ate grains, cabbage, parsnips and fruit for 350 years, mostly ...
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Earth’s balance point is being pulled toward South America by 2.4 trillion metric tons of Amazon rain every April, and NASA has found the seasonal swing is smaller than ...

Earth’s balance point moves a few millimeters each season as snow and 2.4 trillion metric tons of Amazon rain shift, about ...
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A boy in New Jersey started collecting used batteries after seeing a battery fire at a waste facility on TV, and his nonprofit now says it has recycled 900,000, but even a ...

Used batteries: a New Jersey nonprofit started by a 10-year-old reports 900,000 recycled via school bins, and why even a dead ...
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A ritual bath preserved 13.8 feet from floor to ceiling stands in a monumental purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and archaeologists s…

Purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem's Temple Mount holds three ritual baths, one still 13.8 feet tall to its stone ...
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Three African wild dog brothers walked 2,564 miles across Zambia in search of mates, and no African mammal has ever been recorded on a longer journey

African wild dog brothers from Kafue walked 2,564 miles across Zambia, a path Montana State calls the longest ever recorded ...
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The Mjønes shipwreck in northern Norway was built from local pine in the mid-1700s and repaired as late as the mid-1800s, giving this jekt cargo ship more than three ti…

Mjønes shipwreck: a jekt cargo ship built from Norwegian pine in the mid-1700s stayed in service over 100 years, triple the ...
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Ethiopia planted eucalyptus to get firewood and timber, and in one watershed it spread from about 590 acres to nearly 2,000 while streams lost the baseflow that ke…

Eucalyptus plantations cover about 1.25 million acres of Ethiopia, and in one Blue Nile watershed they more than tripled in ...
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Finland has granted the world’s first operating licence to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel, in copper canisters about 1,410 feet down in the bedrock of Olkiluoto i…

Finland will be the first country to bury its spent nuclear fuel for good, after the government granted Posiva on October 22 ...