Switzerland has more than 1,400 tunnels, with total tunnel and gallery length already above 2,000 kilometers. That includes ...
California is quietly rewriting how a modern state gets its water. Along the Pacific coast, energy-hungry desalination plants now pull millions of tons of seawater ashore each year. Inland, treatment ...
Have you ever thought about what a Stone Age status symbol looked like? On the forested western shore of Lake Onega, one of Europe’s largest freshwater lakes, archaeologists have uncovered a ...
Solar panels are usually sold with a 25- to 30-year lifespan, which makes a lot of homeowners wonder what happens after that. Do they quietly fade out, or can they keep cutting the electric bill long ...
For more than a decade, satellites have watched a brown streak grow across the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2025, that streak reached a new record of about 37.5 million tons of floating seaweed stretching ...
A wind turbine taller than many city skyscrapers is now operating offshore in China, and it is not just the electricity output that has people talking. The machine is rated up to 20 megawatts, a scale ...
Over the past year, social networks and clickbait sites have been buzzing with a story that sounds like a fairy tale gone wrong. A French farmer supposedly finds a gold deposit worth four billion ...
Europe’s next pair of Copernicus satellites, the Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment or CHIME, is moving from design desks to reality. With funding now secured for all six ...
For four decades, the Pacific coast of Panama has counted on a reliable seasonal pulse of cold, nutrient-rich water that powers local fisheries and cools coral reefs. In early 2025 that pulse all but ...
La energía eólica marina en el mar del Norte se refuerza tras la Declaración de Hamburgo para convertir la región en el mayor ...
Descubren una nueva rana cohete en Brasil gracias a un ejemplar de 1963, pero todo apunta a que ya está extinguida.
China cerró 2025 con un giro estadístico que llevaba años sin aparecer en su mix eléctrico (la generación térmica, basada ...