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2,300-Acre Napa Ranch Bought for $24M After 17-Year Vineyard Battle For years the fate of a large swath of Napa Valley wilderness has been tied up in competing visions: neat rows of vineyards or a continuous landscape for wildlife to roam. Now, after a long legal and environmental fight, the 2,300-acre property is headed for…

John E. Davis (AI enhanced scereengrab- Youtube/KC Videoclub) A fifth-generation West Texas rancher twice rejected plans to put wind turbines on his family’s property before eventually agreeing to host seven turbines. Today, the wind project has become an important source of regular income for John E Davis, helping him continue his ranching operation and invest…

Rooftop fire at an Amazon warehouse in Perryville, Maryland on June 10, 2021 (Fox news photo) Rooftop solar systems are designed to produce electricity for years, but problems in their wiring and connections can create serious safety risks. Amazon faced this issue at several of its facilities in North America between April 2020 and June…

The recycling process begins with extracting reusable components from the blades.(Representational photo, Getty images) Wind turbine blades can last for years, but what happens to them after they are no longer needed is a challenge. A facility in Fairfax, Iowa, USA, is now recycling old wind turbine blades and turning their materials into products that…

Music fans and environmental volunteers have planted more than 33,000 sea oats along Fort Lauderdale Beach over the past 13 years, turning an annual music festival into one of South Florida’s longest-running coastal restoration projects. The dune restoration effort began in 2013 alongside the first Tortuga Music Festival, an event created in partnership with the…

Image credit: Sierra Nevada Ally For decades, a sprawling stretch of land along Nevada’s Carson River had a rather unusual place in the state’s history. In the 1940s and 1950s, part of the property operated as a “divorce ranch”, offering a temporary refuge for people seeking to end their marriages under Nevada’s famously lenient divorce…

Quaise Energy, an American startup, announced on August 27 the final closing of a $180 million funding round, which included $35 million from Nabors, to finance the Obsidian Project in Oregon, where a microwave gyrotron will create wells in rock between 300 °C and 500 °C to establish the first commercial superhot geothermal plant on…

USS Abraham Lincoln has been at centre of controversy over its prolonged deployment and is now headed home US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sailed past Singapore early Sunday as it headed home after an extended deployment in the Middle East, with the warship expected to make a port visit in Thailand for rest and…

A 55-year-old Missouri official reached the 13,804-foot summit of Wyoming’s highest mountain and signed its register 55-year-old Missouri deputy attorney general who had been missing in Wyoming’s rugged Wind River Range for five days has been rescued alive, shortly after search crews confirmed that he had reached the 13,804-foot summit of Gannett Peak. Shaun Mackelprang…

Earthquake hits Afghanistan near Pak border A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Sunday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).The earthquake was recorded at 9.36 am IST, with its epicentre located near Hindu Kush range on Afghanistan-Pakistan border.The quake took place at a depth of 147 km beneath the Earth’s surface.There were no…