A copper refinery transformed its waste stream into an unlikely renewable energy goldmine, turning forgotten byproducts into the very panels that now power its operations.
A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend.
A Florida rancher protected his hard-won land from development by locking it into conservation, proving that ownership and stewardship can be the same thing.
A gift of more than $5.5 million from Anna and Greg Brockman — Greg being the cofounder and president of OpenAI — closed the gap on a roughly $10 million community fundraising target and cleared the ...
Maple syrup sugarhouses, shown as a thematic illustration of a hypothetical retirement example. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a Vermont sugarmaker retiring with roughly 800 gallons of ...
An Artemis II astronaut photographed the cratered Moon and crescent Earth from Orion in April 2026. Credit: NASA. The image is illustrative and is not one of the microbial-survival maps from the study ...
Opportunity self-portraits from January 2014, left, and March 2014 show how wind removed much of the dust from the rover’s solar panels. These images postdate the first dust-devil photograph and do ...
An ice cave on Earth, used here as a representative image of a water reservoir hidden beneath thick ice. It does not show Ganymede, its surface or its subsurface ocean. Photo by Han-Chieh Lee on ...
The experiment at Oregon State University’s research farm in Corvallis was set up like a fair fight. Two groups of weaned Polypay lambs, matched and weighed. Two pastures side by side: one open to the ...
A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the telescope work. It is now the thing that ...
Woolly mammoths in a 1916 mural by Charles R. Knight. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons. A small group of woolly mammoths clung to a scrap of land off the Siberian coast for roughly six ...
Ask someone in Lima what they want for dinner and the answer might contain a Cantonese verb. Vamos al chifa means let’s get Chinese food, and chifa comes from chī fàn, to eat rice. That phrase has ...
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