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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…...
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…...
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,…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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....
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…...
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…...