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Only one third of glass put out for recycling in the US actually gets recycled. Here's where 9.2 million tons of glass ...

The route through Kiruna had been widened and compacted for months before anything moved. Test runs first. Counterweights ...

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Researchers tagged 33 lobsters at an Irish Sea wind farm and found more than half still sheltering in the same boulder pile four months on, turning scour ...

The ocean had been patient for more than a century. When the Cape Hatteras lighthouse was completed, the Atlantic was a ...

Season after season, tasters working through glass after glass on an expert sensory panel landed on the same verdict. The ...

The breakfast tray looked the same in seat after seat. Ham and omelette, prepared in an airline catering kitchen in Anchorage ...

The camera pointed at the horizon and waited. At a spot on the western rim of Jezero Crater called Witch Hazel Hill, a rover was watching the dusty air. Then four twisters turned up in one scene, and ...

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The Pacific Northwest’s cold-water conveyor usually begins shutting down around late September, and NOAA is already watching the coast make its seasonal turn.

The water arrives without drama. It creeps across the flat Lancashire saltmarsh so quietly you barely notice until the road edge disappears. Within an hour, long stretches of asphalt lie under several ...