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In 1935 the government paid Southern farmers eight dollars an acre to plant a fast-growing Japanese vine to stop their soil washing away. By 1946 they had covered 3 million acres with it, but its infamous takeover of the South has been wildly overstated.
The United Nations University warns that governments are approving electricity infrastructure with 15 to 20 year lifespans on the basis of historical weather records that are unlikely to hold, even as the International Energy Agency projects the renewable sector will nearly triple in size by 2030
Researchers ground up waste eggshells and used the powder to replace 10 percent of the cement in a batch of concrete. At 28 days, the eggshell mix came out stronger than the plain concrete poured beside it, able to bear more weight before cracking.
Hubble found a narrow ribbon of stars apparently stripped from a globular cluster in a galaxy 115 million light-years away—the first evidence of such a stream beyond the Milky Way, opening a new way to map dark matter in distant galaxies.
