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ecoportal.net > en > granada-earthquake-magnitude-metropolitan-morning > 32654

A magnitude 5 shook the metropolitan area at 4 minutes past one in the morning, and people reported feeling the Granada earthquake more than 250 miles north of the town it started under

1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (803+ words) The noise arrived before the movement did. People across the metropolitan area describe being woken by a low roar rather than by shaking, which is what a shallow earthquake sounds like from directly above it. Then the doors and the windows…...

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ecoportal.net > en > recycled-glass-sand-louisiana-coast > 31814

A pair of college students in New Orleans have crushed more than 3 million pounds of discarded bottles into recycled glass sand, and 20 tons of it already anchor fresh marsh grass on a sinking Louisiana coast

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (763+ words) In a New Orleans warehouse, a machine swallows wine and beer bottles by the crate. Seconds later, it spits out a pile of soft, pale sand. Not long ago, every one of those bottles went straight to the dump. The…...

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ecoportal.net > en > underwater-habitat-100-days-key-largo > 32023

A university professor sealed himself inside a 100 square foot underwater habitat 22 feet down off Key Largo for 100 days, and the pressure squeezed his spine until he surfaced half an inch shorter

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (846+ words) Twenty two feet under a Key Largo lagoon, a man wakes in a steel room the size of a hotel bathroom. There is no hatch he can simply open and swim up through. He has been down here for weeks,…...

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ecoportal.net > en > california-hydroelectric-dams-frog > 30799

Rafting past California’s hydroelectric dams had been a long-standing tradition until a frog laid its eggs early and forced trips to stop because the water had warmed to 53°F

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (582+ words) Boaters who live in California know that the annual Slab Creek recreation releases mean the start of whitewater season. The South Fork American River has scheduled flows that allow for a short window of time for boaters to run the…...

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ecoportal.net > en > sixteen-gray-whales-heading-to-alaska > 30684

Sixteen gray whales heading to Alaska wandered into San Francisco Bay and stayed to feed among ferries and cargo ships, earning the name “Bay Grays”

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (587+ words) There is a lot of traffic under and around the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. High-speed ferries cross the bay while cargo ships pass under the bridge. Among this industrial traffic, a group of gray whales has paused…...

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ecoportal.net > en > talking-to-strangers-boosts-happiness-000 > 31195

Talking to strangers on a morning train was something 93 percent of Chicago commuters said they would rather avoid, and then not a single one of the people who actually tried it got turned down

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (763+ words) Commuters on a Chicago train were handed an instruction on the platform and sent to their seats. Some were told to start a conversation with whoever sat down beside them, and others to keep to themselves. Before any of it…...

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ecoportal.net > en > fernanda-abra-rope-bridges-amazon > 30871

Biologist Fernanda Abra strung rope bridges above an Amazon highway and 15,000 animals crossed safely without a single death

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (572+ words) About 1,800 miles away, on the road into Alta Floresta — a small Amazon town in Mato Grosso — that story hasn’t repeated itself once since 2024. The reason hangs quietly above the highway, strung between the treetops. Brazil carries a paradox at its…...

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ecoportal.net > en > amelia-island-hopper-dredge-sea-turtles > 31015

A 346 foot dredge named the Amelia Island just joined America's coast, and every load of sand it pumps ashore rebuilds the exact Florida beaches sea turtles need to nest

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (706+ words) At Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, Louisiana, workers just finished a 346 foot machine. They named it the Amelia Island, after a barrier island on Florida’s coast. It belongs to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, the largest dredging company in America....

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ecoportal.net > en > floating-solar-reservoirs-fish > 30931

Modelers put floating solar over 11 reservoirs in 6 states and found the shade helped trout in some lakes, did almost nothing in others, and never returned the same answer twice

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (756+ words) There is no floating solar on any of the eleven reservoirs in this study. Not one panel. The whole thing was run on a computer. Researchers took 11 real lakes across 6 states and simulated what would happen if a skin of…...

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ecoportal.net > en > lions-mane-jellyfish-cape-cod > 30396

Cape Cod beachgoers began finding jellyfish with tentacles longer than a school bus washing ashore, and no one can fully explain why so many are arriving early

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (504+ words) A jellyfish with a bell three feet wide and tentacles stretching over 100 feet has been washing up on Massachusetts beaches — and it isn’t alone. Lion’s mane jellyfish, among the largest creatures in the ocean, are appearing off Cape Cod in…...