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Stranded minke whale on an Atlantic Coast beach during the unusual mortality event investigated by NOAA.

A whale as long as a city bus can race through the ocean, but NOAA’s 212 strandings reveal a hidden coastal danger

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A lab technician holds a blood sample tube used to measure cholesterol levels.

Millions rely on LDL cholesterol tests to judge heart risk, but a new study suggests apoB may uncover dangerous particles those familiar numbers can miss and could help prevent more heart attacks and strokes

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Archaeologists excavate storage pits and hearths inside the Coves del Fem rock shelter in Ulldemolins, Spain.

Archaeologists uncovered eight 8,000-year-old storage pits in Spain, but the deeper layers held an even rarer surprise, remarkably preserved traces of the last hunter-gatherers who lived there just before farming transformed the region

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Flocean staff and local officials sample the first drinking water produced by the Flocean One subsea desalination pod in Mongstad, Norway.

Norway lowered a 22-ton desalination pod 1,640 feet below the sea, where natural ocean pressure helps it produce up to one million liters of drinking water a day while using far less energy than conventional plants

By ECONEWS
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September 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Seven heavy-haul freight train units lined up during a virtual coupling test in China.

China ran seven 5,000-ton coal trains across Inner Mongolia without physically coupling the train units, using a radio link to keep the 35,000-ton formation moving in sync, and officials say the system could boost rail capacity by more than 50% without laying new track

By ECONEWS
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September 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Rendering of the proposed West Somerset Lagoon tidal power project in the Bristol Channel.

Great Britain plans to build a 22.5-kilometer-long tidal barrier, consisting of 206 giant concrete caissons and 125 turbines, which would generate enough electricity for about 2 million households

By ECONEWS
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September 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Steam rising from the Shanay-Timpishka, the Boiling River in the Peruvian Amazon.

A river in the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to reach 86°C with no volcano nearby, and researchers found that every 1°C increase along its banks was linked to an 11% drop in local tree diversity

By ECONEWS
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September 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Callery pear thorn that punctured a tractor tire, viewed from inside the tire.

A thorny wild pear punctured a tractor tire, and the real surprise is how America’s once-favorite “sterile” street tree escaped

By ECONEWS
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September 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Illustration of mixed plastic waste undergoing a thermal treatment process developed to produce high-purity hydrogen.

A new reactor turned bottles, bags and car plastics into hydrogen, and the carbon problem stayed trapped in solid material

By ECONEWS
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September 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Solar panels and wind turbines at the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in eastern Oregon.

Oregon built a wind, solar and battery site for 100,000 homes, but a 10-ounce endangered squirrel still decides when crews can dig

By ECONEWS
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September 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Truman Lowe's monumental Ottawa sculpture made from pine and peeled willow saplings.

Willow branches became rivers and canoes in Truman Lowe’s hands, and a Washington exhibition shows why his art still feels alive

By ECONEWS
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September 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
View of Mars' ice-covered south polar region, where radar observations have investigated a possible buried lake.

NASA’s radar searched for Mars’ buried lake beneath the south pole, and the weak echo has made the water mystery harder to believe

By ECONEWS
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September 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Massive iceberg during a rollover near Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland.

A massive iceberg flipped off Greenland while cameras watched, and the hidden force below the water turned melting ice into waves

By ECONEWS
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September 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of the Harborton Substation and transmission corridor beside Forest Park in Portland, Oregon.

A Portland power project could remove 376 trees from Forest Park, and the deal meant to save the grid has split conservation groups

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Desert tortoise resting in the shade beneath solar panels at the Gemini Solar Project in Nevada.

A solar farm was built to harvest the desert sun, but tortoises began using parts of the enormous energy site as shelter and forced researchers to look at what happens when wildlife moves into renewable infrastructure

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Group of Delacour's langurs resting among limestone rocks and vegetation in northern Vietnam.

One of the world’s rarest primates survives among the limestone cliffs of northern Vietnam, where the remaining Delacour’s langurs are hanging on in fragmented habitat despite looking almost impossible to miss

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Aerial view of solar panels stretching over the Casa Blanca Canal across the Arizona desert.

Arizona covered a desert canal with 2,556 solar panels, and the first U.S. pilot is testing whether expensive shade can save water

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Ancient gold ring with a Brahmi inscription discovered at the Don Yai Thong archaeological site in Thailand.

A 2,000-year-old gold ring found beside human remains in Thailand carries an inscription that may reveal an ancient trade route

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Aerial image of Tracy Gartenmann's Austin home used by Travelers Insurance to flag tree branches near the roof.

An aerial photo warned an Austin homeowner her insurance could vanish, and the tree branches it spotted cost her $3,000

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Global view of Mars, the planet NASA plans to eventually explore with human crews.

NASA still has no year for the first human Mars landing, and the missing date reveals why the real countdown has not begun

By ECONEWS
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September 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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