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Wind turbines are a net positive for a sustainable society, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have an environmental impact.

Off the top of your head, how big do you think the biggest wind turbines are? A few dozen feet or meters? A hundred meters?

Kansas Highway 23 divides the Gray County Wind Farm from the Ensign Wind Farm in Gray County, Kansas. Credit: Brian Grimmett/Kansas News Service This article is part of The State of Science, a series ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel on Earth, solar wind isn't moving air; it's a ...

Rob Van Vleet secures a wind turbine blade onto an oversized truck at the Kimball Wind Farm in southwest Nebraska. Credit: Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media This segment is part of The State of ...

Wind energy is surging in the United States. In 2020, turbines generated about 8 percent of the country’s electricity — more than 80 times the share of wind-generated electricity in 2000 —according to ...

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter suggest that ...

PRIMGHAR, Ia. — When the wind plows across Kelly Ney's flat, rich soil, the noise from the half-dozen whirling turbines surrounding his fourth-generation farm sounds like a tornado bearing down on his ...

The simplest definition of wind is air in motion. Wind is generated by uneven pressure in the atmosphere, which is caused by uneven heating by the Sun, land, and oceans. The air closest to the ground ...