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Wisconsin's resurfacing of 2.2 miles of Highway 42 in Door County will keep every one of the road's 15 famous curves exactly where they are.

Wisconsin's coming resurfacing of the final 2.2 miles of Highway 42 in Door County is a mill-and-overlay on the existing alignment, which means the road's 15 famous curves — and the tunnel of trees around them — stay exactly where they are.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 17, 2026

Farm News

The 2011 Nature paper 'Solutions for a Cultivated Planet' argued that halting agricultural expansion, closing yield gaps, using inputs more efficiently, shifting diets and cutting food waste could together roughly double global food production while shrinking farming's environmental footprint.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 14, 2026

Climate Science

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

Climate Science

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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Every year Australia slides seven centimeters toward the north-northeast, almost twice the pace of a growing fingernail and quicker than any other continent. Southeast Asia is already in the way, and some models fold the plate into a new supercontinent inside 300 million years.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026

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Unsold and secondhand clothing piles up in dumps in Chile's Atacama desert, and a small factory nearby now shreds it and presses it into insulation panels. The boards going up inside the walls of new houses started out as garments nobody ever bought.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026

Climate Science

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

Flora and Fauna

Since 1955, William and Mary's Batten School and VIMS have run a Juvenile Finfish Trawl Survey in the Chesapeake Bay using a five-minute tow of a 20-foot net, and it now samples more than 1,200 sites every year to track how young fish populations shift decade to decade.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 9, 2026

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A 91-year-old hiker known as Grey Beard has walked the entire Appalachian Trail end to end, reported as the oldest person to do it, PBS NewsHour reports — the full length rather than sections, at an age when most thru-hikers have long stopped

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026

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Virginia held three rounds of public input between March 2025 and January 2026 before publishing its South Van Dorn Street safety recommendations in July 2026.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026

Flora and Fauna

Sea lamprey control has quietly become an integrated pest-management system: lampricides, physical barriers, pheromone-baited traps and sterile-male releases, refined over decades of adaptive trials against a parasite that filter-feeds for years as larvae before turning on native fish.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026

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Grid operators in the Netherlands can now slow or stop North Sea wind turbines for 4 hours when mass bird migration is forecast; on May 13, 2023, turbines at Borssele and a wind farm near Egmond aan Zee were shut down for four hours in an international first.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026

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In 1963, Britain proposed closing 5,000 route miles of railway; by the late 2010s, about 1,200 miles of the National Cycle Network used old railway track beds, while more than 1,000 cast-iron Millennium Mileposts installed in 2000 marked routes across the network.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 3, 2026

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