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An American Liberty ship that has sat on a Thames sandbank for 82 years with about 1,400 tons of munitions in her holds had her three 82-foot steel masts cut off underwater by a remote-controlled diamond-wire saw, one at a time in 15 days, and a 213-foot crane barge lifted them out with no diver in the water for the cut
A 246-foot arch dam in Germany’s Harz mountains is down to 16 percent, the lowest since it was built, the walls of the village it drowned in the 1950s are back above the mud, and its operator has permission to cut the river below to 35 cubic feet a second
24,264 solar panels on trackers over an organic oat field near Germany’s Danish border kept the soil under them so wet that sowing ran four weeks behind the field’s open ends, and a tractor driver looking back over his shoulder drove into a row of modules and broke several
A flooded nickel and copper mine outside Sudbury sat under water for 25 years with every building on top torn down, and a small Ontario company just approved digging a new ramp into it, pumping it dry and putting the old shaft back to work to haul out 2,400 tons of rock a day for 12 years