10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (623+ words) "It's so important to use evidence-based decision making to tackle these fires." A study highlighted by science communicator Ross Reid found that one of the strongest predictors of wildfire risk may be something many people use every day: roads. The…...

11+ hour, 8+ min ago   (293+ words) Celebrity excess tends to hit a nerve, but few symbols of disconnect attract backlash quite like a superyacht. That sentiment resurfaced online after a claim spread that author and billionaire JK Rowling had reportedly covered the name of her yacht…...

12+ hour, 10+ min ago   (619+ words) "Voters are paying close attention to the headlines about Texas' growth." Texas voters increasingly seem to view water security as a statewide issue connected to everyday life and the state's overall stability, rather than as a narrow infrastructure matter. In…...

13+ hour, 22+ min ago   (507+ words) "Can you do ground mount? That will save a lot of money / hassle/ permitting." A homeowner with $50,000 to spend on an off-grid power system turned to Reddit's r/SolarDIY community to ask whether they could design a setup around a…...

13+ hour, 34+ min ago   (533+ words) "I think, you know, what Trump is doing is just probably a temporary fix." Ground beef prices are hovering near a record, and Texas ranchers say the strain starts long before shoppers reach the grocery aisle. In the Coastal Bend,…...

16+ hour, 46+ min ago   (423+ words) "Just a free upgrade for my landlord." A renter in Arkansas looked at a solar installation from an unusual angle. Instead of focusing on whether panels would shrink a monthly bill, they took to Reddit to ask whether a DIY…...

20+ hour, 16+ min ago   (588+ words) Full efficiency figures for the new models have not been published yet. Hitachi is introducing a new range of EcoCute heat pump water heaters in Japan that use CO2-based heating and add controls suited to electricity pricing that favors daytime…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (623+ words) "An absolute distortion of reality." In southeastern Utah, crews had to call in a Chinook helicopter to extract a 75 million-year-old dinosaur fossil after a Black Hawk could not lift the nearly 5,000-pound block of rock around it. On July 13, the…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (464+ words) "Honestly that's a perfect representation of how they think of us." A TikTok post from More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion) hit its mark after taking aim at a strange Labor Day post from the Trump administration. The offending video from The…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (453+ words) "These new rules … open the door to further species decline and possible extinctions." A coalition of 20 states and Washington, D.C., is taking President Donald Trump's administration to court over changes to endangered-species protections that they argue strip away key habitat…...