Submerged in the Scottish sea for two years, Microsoft's underwater data center outperformed its landlocked counterpart by a stunning margin.
A Victorian-era experiment to stock Australian waters with English game fish has spent 160 years quietly erasing a native species that once thrived in the same streams.
A century-old effort to stabilize Hawaiian mudflats has spawned an invasive species that now dominates thousands of acres, transforming native ecosystems in ways scientists are still struggling to reverse.
Titan reproduces the sequence of a terrestrial weather cycle using liquid methane and ethane over a crust where water ice behaves as rock.
A decade-long push to revive the Chesapeake Bay's oyster reefs hit its target—and then some—planting billions of creatures across thousands of acres.
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