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UK Startup is Making Electricity From Bacteria in the Soil - Maybe Your Garden Will Power Your Home Some Day
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (193+ words) British startup Bactery says its battery, powered by bacteria, uses nature's microbes to generate an unending trickle of power'and by stringing the prototypes together they can generate a stream. Bactery founder and CEO Jakub Dziegielowski says the device complements standard…...
Thousands Donate to Help Nebraska Ranchers Who Couldn't Feed Their Animals After Wildfire Burned Every Acre of Grass
1+ week, 2+ day ago (201+ words) A few months ago the largest wildfire in Nebraska history burned a thousand square-miles of ranch land. It burned every foot of grass on Mike and Kayla Wintz's 11, 000-acre ranch. But when they and their neighbors faced the threat of…...
Nature's Beauty is Restored After Farmer Obliterated Shoreline of Important Salmon Run
2+ week, 3+ day ago (371+ words) The farmer used an 18-ton digger to dredge a section of the River Lugg near Leominster, and stripped every tree from a mile-long stretch of one of Britain's most important salmon rivers. He was jailed for 12 months in 2023 by a…...
Banner Avocado Harvest Ends with 15, 000 lb. Dish of Guacamole'a Guinness World Record
2+ week, 4+ day ago (280+ words) After a record avocado harvest, over 1, 000 growers in the Mexican state of Michoacan sat down to set another one: the largest bowl of guacamole in history. They succeeded, as Guinness World Record was on hand to verify, when their gargantuan…...
Ecosystem of Pansies Thrives on Soil Contaminated by Lead Mining'Turning it into Clean Organic Compounds
3+ week, 1+ day ago (471+ words) For areas contaminated by lead and zinc mining across Europe, a class of plants known as "metallophytes" are helping enrich nature while diminishing pollution. The Guardian reported on this kind of ecological double speak, where wildflowers seemingly grow in healthy…...
A New York Cemetery Was Hiding Over 5 Million Burrowing Bees, One of the World's Largest Concentrations
3+ week, 4+ day ago (708+ words) At roughly 5. 5 million, a colony of ground-nesting bees that scientists discovered under a New York cemetery may be one of the largest bee aggregations ever documented. Subsequent research showed that the bees have likely lived there for more than 100 years,…...
Man Gathers Up Family Acres Home to Moose and Mountain Lion and Returns Them to Indian Tribe
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (406+ words) Early in May, GNN reported how Australia and USA citizens have amassed 85 million acres of private land specifically for conservation. From the Spokesman-Review comes the story of a man in Washington state who's about to make it 85, 000, 885 by donating his…...
Seed-Sharing No Longer Illegal After Landmark Kenya Court Ruling Against Global Seed Monopolists
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (475+ words) Kenya's highest court recently struck down as unconstitutional a law that forbade seed sharing, a long practiced traditional means of diversifying crop production and resilience. The law, whether inadvertently or by design, made Kenya another country within the network of…...
Seeds Can "Hear" the Rain'And the Sound Waves Make Them Grow Faster Shows MIT Study
2+ mon, 15+ hour ago (958+ words) Seeds may come alive to the soothing sound of rainfall, sensing the drops while they are still beneath the surface, suggests a new study. A series of experiments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated that rice seeds sprouted faster…...
Teacher's Opera Karaoke Goes Viral and Lands Him Audition on Britain's Got Talent (WATCH his Nessun Dorma)
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (505+ words) A teacher's pub karaoke rendition of the opera classic Nessun Dorma was so good that it went viral'and also earned the attention of producers from Britain's Got Talent. 37-year-old Benjamin Gillham had been out drinking in Liverpool, celebrating the birthday…...