- 😍 😍 🗺 🐦 The Bird Migration Explorer “is your guide to the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way.”
- 🤔 🇦🇶 ✈️ Refreezing Earth’s poles feasible and cheap, new study finds. “Scientists laid out a possible future program whereby high-flying jets would spray microscopic aerosol particles into the atmosphere at latitudes of 60 degrees north and south—roughly Anchorage and the southern tip of Patagonia. If injected at a height of 43,000 feet (above airliner cruising altitudes), these aerosols would slowly drift poleward, slightly shading the surface beneath.”
- 🤔 🌖 🇨🇳 China Discovers Stunning Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy. “According to state media, the new lunar samples also contain helium-3, a version of the element helium that has long fascinated scientists—and science fiction creators—because of its potential as a nuclear fusion fuel source.”
- 😍 💦 🇳🇱 ‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years. “Europe’s largest river restoration is making changes across the entire landscape, bringing benefits to wildlife and people.”
- 🌊 🇦🇺 🇮🇩 Australia’s ocean forest of 35-metre ‘trees’ is growing at light speed. “The forests grow two to eleven times faster than many crops cultivated today, such as wheat, corn or rice, they found. Australia’s neighbour Indonesia reaps the benefits in their seaweed aquaculture on land, with seeds extracted from the ocean forests.”
- 🤔 ☀️ 🏢 🪡 🇳🇱 Pauline van Dongen designs Suntex solar textile for architecture. “Suntex is a durable and water-resistant solar textile that could be used to clad entire buildings, turning them into huge solar-energy generators.”
- 👀 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel. “When completed, the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link will be the longest combined road and rail tunnel anywhere in the world. Descending up to 40 meters beneath the Baltic Sea, it will link Denmark and Germany.”
Note — Sep 25, 2022