What I Found Interesting: September 30, 2026

Golf courses providing wildlife habitat, bird photographer of the year, and a red silk dress that took 14 years to complete are a few of the interesting stories I’ve enjoyed in the past month. I hope you enjoy them, too! What I Found Interesting I know I’ve shared similar stories in the past, but this story takes a different approach: how two golf courses provide habitat for wildlife. First, a golf course along England coastline is being converted to a wetland nature preserve. And birds can’t wait for the preserve to be officially opened; plovers, terns, avocets, and lapwings have already arrived. A second golf course in Colorado is taking a “regenerative” approach, replacing existing plant species with native plants as well as using recycled treated wastewater (known as gray water) to irrigate the greens. Since 2008, the city of Heerlen in The Netherlands has been heating homes, shops, and office buildings with water from flooded underground mines. Heerlen’s experience involved much…