ECONEWS

A team of journalists specializing in socio-environmental news, sustainability, climate change, the environment, responsible consumption, and innovation. At EcoNews, we provide clear, reliable, and relevant coverage of the environmental and social challenges shaping our era.
Lear's macaw chick being hand-fed by a keeper at Pairi Daiza.

A Belgian park has now bred all three blue macaw species, and the two chicks that completed the record needed twelve hand feedings a day to survive their first week

By ECONEWS
—
August 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Rescued female saltwater crocodile from Magalang, Pampanga, Philippines

Saltwater crocodiles vanished from Philippine coasts decades ago, and a 10-foot female’s rescue this August revealed more about captive wildlife than a comeback

By ECONEWS
—
August 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Large piles of discarded wind turbine blades cut into sections for disposal.

Wyoming’s landfill holds 1,124 wind turbine blades, but a Missouri cement plant has already found a second life for 7,000 more

By ECONEWS
—
August 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Compact SAXON Q diamond-based quantum computing systems designed to operate at room temperature.

A German startup sells a quantum computer that runs at room temperature in an ordinary server rack, but the qubit count on the label is not the one that matters

By ECONEWS
—
August 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wood-based foam mixture being poured into molds during development at the University of Maine.

A graduate student in Maine turned wood into a foam that keeps a cooler almost as cold as plastic does, and the part that still fails is not the temperature

By ECONEWS
—
August 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
King cobra with its hood raised on the leaf-covered floor of a forest.

Mushroom gatherers walked into a Nepalese forest and found a nest built by the only snake known to make one, and officials have now restricted access to the site

By ECONEWS
—
August 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
People planting young trees together during a Green Legacy tree-planting event in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia put 805 million seedlings in the ground in twelve hours with 26 million people helping, and the number that will actually decide whether it worked is still years away

By ECONEWS
—
August 15, 2026 at 8:49 AM
PNNL chemist Chinmayee Subban demonstrates technology developed to extract magnesium from seawater.

Scientists say one thousandth of the ocean holds enough lithium and magnesium to last 50,000 years, but an Olympic pool of seawater shows why almost nobody can get it out

By ECONEWS
—
August 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Map of Europe showing extreme summer heat across western and southern Europe with a thermometer in the foreground.

NASA satellite images show France, Spain and Italy turning brown within weeks, and the measurement behind the color change is one Europe has never recorded in a summer before

By ECONEWS
—
August 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Roy Kim, a 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge finalist who developed a water-from-air irrigation system for plants.

A 13-year-old in Oregon built a chamber that pulls drinking water out of the air for dry farms, and the amount it produced in two hours explains the real problem

By ECONEWS
—
August 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Crane loads a rock-filled barge on a river, similar to the barges used to redirect Danube flow in Romania

Romania sank four rock-filled barges into the Danube to keep a nuclear reactor running, and the river rose an inch and a half when forecasters had expected a drop

By ECONEWS
—
August 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
GPS collars reveal snow leopards roam far larger territories than previously recorded, crossing international borders.

Four snow leopards wearing GPS collars in Nepal sent back 4,707 signals, and three of them crossed into China and India so often that the conservation map no longer fits

By ECONEWS
—
August 14, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Agricultural sprayer applying herbicide across a large crop field.

Syngenta is leaving Australia’s paraquat market after an 80 percent spraying cut, but the weed killer linked in studies to Parkinson’s concerns will remain

By ECONEWS
—
August 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Technicians install rooftop solar panels on a residential home in Australia under the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme.

Australia’s clean energy regulator suspended 21 solar companies at once, and the artificial intelligence now checking battery photographs is what households should understand before signing a rooftop quote

By ECONEWS
—
August 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Phil Brown walks through vegetable fields in Bowen, Queensland, where plastic mulch and drip irrigation are widely used in crop production.

A Queensland couple keeps the plastic matting and drip tape that grew their tomatoes, because Australia recycles only 7 percent of farm plastic and no truck will take the rest

By ECONEWS
—
August 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Metropolitan Police officers inspect an electric bicycle during a roadside enforcement operation targeting illegal e-bikes in London.

London police have seized more than 2,500 illegal e-bikes in seven months, already beating all of last year, and the roadside machine they now use explains why so many failed

By ECONEWS
—
August 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Leonardo DiCaprio alongside a pink iguana featured in the Phoenix Species Project

Leonardo DiCaprio and others fund a USD 200 million project to recover 100 species on the brink of extinction, a genetic rescue plan

By ECONEWS
—
August 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Humpback whale with her newborn calf off Kingscliff, Australia

A wildlife photographer captured a humpback whale giving birth, a moment so rare and raw that no aerial footage existed before

By ECONEWS
—
August 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Woman interacting with a horse at Kind Farm animal sanctuary in New Zealand

A New Zealand farm offers free housing and rescued animals in exchange for four morning hours, a work-exchange life experiment

By ECONEWS
—
August 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Colorful pollinator-friendly garden replacing a traditional front lawn in Florida.

A Florida homeowner turned lawn into pollinator sanctuary using cardboard and patience, proving that even boxes can start an ecosystem

By ECONEWS
—
August 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Previous Next

ECOnews alerts

Get the most relevant environment stories as soon as we publish them

ECOnews is the English-language edition of ECOticias.com, focused on environmental and sustainability news for a global audience: mobility, energy, economy, technology, science, environment and trending stories.

Sections

Our editions

ECOticias.comOur Spanish edition: environment, nature, energy and climate news since 2004. hoyECOSustainable living in Spanish: energy, mobility, consumption and construction.

Contact

© 2026 ECOnews · ECOticias.com, the green newspaper since 2004 ↑ Top