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An underwater robot dove nearly 13,000 ft. in the Argentine Sea and found fishing nets, bags, and even a VHS tape, as if the ocean floor were keeping a trash pile fro…

A VHS tape and other debris found nearly 13 000 ft deep show how human trash has reached Argentina’s remote seafloor.
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China will send 269 electric buses to a Latin American city and turn it into one of the first with a fully electric public transit fleet, the kind of urban leap that does not ...

Bogotá orders 269 Chinese electric buses for TransMilenio, aiming to cut cost, crowding, and emissions by 2027.
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Electric vehicle batteries are beating expectations after hundreds of thousands of miles, and that could knock down one of the most common fears about EVs

Real-world data show EV batteries lose about 2 % capacity per year, keeping most range beyond 100 k miles and easing ...
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Morocco is getting serious about water security with mega-desalination plants and new rules for cities of millions, a massive bet that shows how far the water crisis can …

Morocco’s $14 billion plan uses mega-desalination, dams and water highways so taps keep flowing even when the rains fail.
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Spain created aircraft landing gear capable of storing energy like a battery, a strange idea that could turn the force of every landing into usable electricity

Spain is testing aircraft parts that store energy like a battery. Discover how this structural innovation could cut weight ...
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Homes that can be built in just one week, without cement and with the promise of saving energy: the system trying to prove that building fast does not have to mean …

SIP homes can be built in about a week, cutting energy use and showing that faster construction does not have to sacrifice ...
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Texas engineers created a jacket capable of extracting up to 900 milliliters of drinking water per day directly from the air, an invention that sounds like science fiction for ...

Texas engineers created a jacket that turns air into drinking water, offering a new survival tool for a hotter, drier future.
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About 80 years after some 200,000 radioactive barrels were dumped in the ocean, France is leading a mission to find them, an uncomfortable story that sounds like a f…

More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped into the Northeast Atlantic during the second half of the 20th ...
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An Indian billionaire secured 500 hectares to build a massive project in Africa, and the move already feels like one of those bets that could reshape an entire region’s econ…

A massive solar-powered steel mill is coming to Nigeria. Can this project bridge the gap between energy reliability and ...
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A new study says linking solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with direct current could save up to 16.7% on electricity, and the trick is avoiding invisible conversions ...

Purdue researchers found that running solar homes on direct current could cut energy bills by 16.7%. Is a DC-powered future ...
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The following response from a chatbot may seem gratuitous and effortless, but the UN has just revealed its hidden side: Data centers, water, land, and electricity on a s…

AI's hidden costs are huge. UN leaders demand transparency on the water, land, and power needed to run our digital habits.
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An agricultural town in Australia has jobs, factories, and a desire to grow, but it lacks the most basic necessity: Housing for its employees, and now it wants to solve this ...

An Australian town is using 3D-printed homes to solve a major housing shortage and keep local factories growing.