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Scientists hung clean moss beside three Russian highways, and the plants began collecting metals linked to traffic pollution

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Scientists hung clean moss beside three Russian highways, and the plants began collecting metals linked to traffic pollution

Researchers in Russia hung bags of moss beside three busy highways to see how much traffic pollution the plants would soak up. Published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, the study exposed moss collected from a clean background site to roadside air along the Leningradskoye, Yaroslavskoye, and Dmitrovkoye highways in central Russia. After analysing the … Read more

‘Unleash American energy’: Trump moves to scrap Biden-era carbon limits on US coal & gas power plants

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'Unleash American energy': Trump moves to scrap Biden-era carbon limits on US coal & gas power plants

Trump’s latest climate rollback targets carbon emissions from US power plants The Donald Trump administration is set to scrap Biden-era limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, marking another major rollback of US climate policy and removing restrictions that targeted a sector responsible for nearly a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas … Read more

Thames Valley Police uncover £1.3 million cannabis factory inside abandoned BHS store in Slough with 1,700 plants and potential 150kg yield; two men jailed for 14 months

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Thames Valley Police uncover £1.3 million cannabis factory inside abandoned BHS store in Slough with 1,700 plants and potential 150kg yield; two men jailed for 14 months

Police uncover £1.3 million cannabis factory inside former BHS store in Slough. (Photo: Thames Valley Police) Two men have been jailed after police uncovered a cannabis factory containing more than 1,700 plants inside a former BHS store in Slough, with the crop estimated to have a potential street value of nearly £1.3 million.According to details … Read more

Singapore covered a reservoir with 122,000 floating solar panels; it now powers 5 water-treatment plants and cuts 32,000 tonnes of CO₂ every year

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Singapore covered a reservoir with 122,000 floating solar panels; it now powers 5 water-treatment plants and cuts 32,000 tonnes of CO₂ every year

Singapore has turned part of a reservoir into a giant renewable-energy installation, covering about one-third of Tengeh Reservoir with more than 122,000 floating solar panels spread across 10 floating islands. The 45-hectare Sembcorp Tengeh Floating Solar Farm has a capacity of 60 MWp and generates electricity used to support five local water-treatment plants. The project … Read more

Scientists removed just 20–40% of fish from a degraded Chinese lake; underwater plants and water clarity began recovering

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Scientists removed just 20–40% of fish from a degraded Chinese lake; underwater plants and water clarity began recovering

Representative Image of a pristine highland lake transitioning from murky water to clear, with submerged plants thriving (AI Generated Image) Caohai Lake, a highland lake in southwest China, began losing its underwater vegetation after 2016. By 2019, submerged plants covered less than 10 per cent of the lake, down from around 70 per cent just … Read more

In the 1600s, people in Osaka ate dozens of species of fish, mammals and plants; 400 years later scientists found the evidence trapped in their teeth

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In the 1600s, people in Osaka ate dozens of species of fish, mammals and plants; 400 years later scientists found the evidence trapped in their teeth

Four centuries ago, the people living in Osaka left behind an unlikely record of what they ate. It was not written in a cookbook or preserved in a market ledger, but in the hardened deposits that accumulated on their teeth. Scientists have now analysed ancient dental calculus from eight people buried at the Ofuka-cho site, … Read more

In 2021, Alabama students began placing discarded Christmas trees along Gulf Coast dunes to trap sand; each year about 200 students now add roughly 3,000 native plants around them

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In 2021, Alabama students began placing discarded Christmas trees along Gulf Coast dunes to trap sand; each year about 200 students now add roughly 3,000 native plants around them

Discarded Christmas trees Discarded holiday trees collected from living rooms across Alabama are finding a second life along the Gulf of Mexico, forming the foundation of a student-led coastal restoration campaign. Discarded Christmas trees collected from homes across Alabama are getting a second life along the Gulf of Mexico, helping form the base of a … Read more

A Colorado farmer put 3,276 solar panels over his crops, and the shade created cooler conditions for heat-sensitive plants

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A Colorado farmer put 3,276 solar panels over his crops, and the shade created cooler conditions for heat-sensitive plants

Representative Image of solar panels and thriving crops growing together on the same farmland (AI-generated image) A family farm in Longmont, Colorado has turned part of its land into a working example of how solar power and agriculture can share the same ground. Byron Kominek, owner of Jack’s Solar Garden, covered roughly five acres of … Read more