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COLI Group spent six months moving 14 GE Vernova transformers from a Turkish factory to Poland's Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, and the four largest weighed 361 tonnes each — heavy enough that a temporary elevated structure had to be built over Polish bridges that could not carry them.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 14, 2026

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Tom Rivett-Carnac describes stubborn optimism as grit in the face of an unavoidable challenge, not cheerfulness, and the research supports the distinction: Maria Ojala found hope based on denial predicted less pro-environmental behaviour among Swedish teenagers, while constructive hope predicted more

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026

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Seismologists already knew big earthquakes send waves down to Earth's core and back, but Japan's 2011 quake was the first time those returning waves were shown to actually slip tectonic plates near the surface — a previously unrecognised source of seismic hazard.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 9, 2026

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How does a rodent felling saplings across a headwater stream raise a valley's water table by a metre or more and store measurably more carbon in the wet sediment behind its dams than the trees it cut down?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 26, 2026

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In California's Mojave Desert, 350,000 heliostat mirrors focus sunlight onto three 45-storey towers that heat to nearly 540°C — and in the plant's first year biologists estimated about 3,500 birds died after flying into what looked, from the air, like a lake.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 22, 2026

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How does a desert country grow tomatoes, peppers, and dates on a fraction of the water its neighbours use, after a 1930s water engineer noticed a leaking pipe made a tree grow faster?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 21, 2026

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A parasitic barnacle called Sacculina injects itself into a crab, grows a root system through its host's body, and chemically rewires the crab's brain to care for the parasite's eggs as if they were its own, even castrating male crabs so they behave like females tending a brood.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 16, 2026

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What happened when a Pacific archipelago cleared rats and stoats from 117 offshore islands and let seabirds, flightless parrots, and giant crickets return to ground they had not touched in 150 years?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 13, 2026

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How did a solar storm in 1859 send currents surging through telegraph wires so strong that operators reported sparks jumping from their equipment and messages transmitting even after the batteries were disconnected?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026

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Margaret Hamilton wrote the Apollo 11 guidance software so defensively that when the lunar module's computer flashed 1202 and 1201 alarms during Armstrong's descent, the system automatically shed low-priority tasks and kept the landing radar running, buying the crew the seconds they needed to touch down with 25 seconds of fuel left.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 9, 2026

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What happened when a low-lying European country shifted from higher river dikes to giving floodwater more room at 30 locations over 13 years?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 7, 2026

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How does a spacecraft launched in 1977, now more than 25 billion kilometres from home, still transmit data back to Earth on less power than a household hallway bulb?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 5, 2026

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A single cumulus cloud can weigh around 500 tonnes, roughly the mass of 100 elephants, yet it floats because the warm air holding those droplets aloft is measurably less dense than the cooler air beneath it.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 4, 2026

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How does a city-state of six million people meet roughly 40 percent of its water demand by putting treated sewage back through the tap, and why did it start doing this in 2003 rather than desalinate more seawater?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 3, 2026

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Honey sealed inside Egyptian tombs more than 3,000 years ago can survive intact, dark and crystallised rather than rotten, because honey's low water content, acidic pH around 3.9, and the trickle of hydrogen peroxide produced by bee enzymes create an environment where almost no microbe can grow

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 3, 2026

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How did a dust-built plateau larger than France cut the sediment pouring into a river from 1.6 billion tonnes a year by more than 80 percent over four decades?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Jul 31, 2026