10+ hour, 54+ 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…...

12+ hour, 28+ 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, 40+ 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…...

17+ hour, 4+ 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, 34+ 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…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (456+ words) "It's unconscionable that FEMA refuses to pay." New Mexico is taking FEMA to court after the federal agency twice denied reimbursement for tens of millions of dollars the state spent responding to a wildfire sparked by the federal government. The…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (621+ words) "These labels are connected to the same algorithmic pricing software that online retailers are already using." A supposedly simple swap to digital price tags in stores could have more significant impacts, with a new labor report saying the technology could…...