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Curiosity rover view of the Miraflores butte surrounded by polygon-covered terrain on Mars.

Honeycomb stone covers a Martian valley, with polygons no bigger than a fingernail, yet vast enough to puzzle geologists

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August 12, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Rendering of the planned GW Ranch AI data center and natural gas power project in Pecos County, Texas.

Amazon builds a 35-turbine gas plant in Texas for its AI data centers, betting raw fossil power on artificial intelligence

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August 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Ancient hominin footprints preserved across a fossil track surface near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Eight hominins crossed the same muddy shore 1.43 million years ago, their footprints a rare window into ancient company and movement

By ECONEWS
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August 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A man holds a large tambaqui fish while standing in the water.

A fish that has fed Amazon communities for generations is now officially threatened in Brazil, and a 43.4% projected decline has started a race to protect wild tambaqui without crushing local livelihoods

By ECONEWS
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August 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Offshore wind turbines surrounded by visible fog wakes at the Horns Rev wind farm in the North Sea.

On February 12, 2008, a Danish offshore wind farm produced strange white trails behind its turbines, and scientists discovered that the rotating blades were mixing the layers of air with enough intensity to contribute to fog formation

By ECONEWS
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August 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Golden eagle flying near an IdentiFlight camera system and wind turbines at a Wyoming wind farm.

Golden eagles over Wyoming may miss wind turbines, a blind spot in their vision that makes renewables unexpectedly dangerous

By ECONEWS
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August 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Boats stranded in mud as extremely low water levels expose the riverbed along the Danube in Serbia.

The Danube retreats from Serbia and Croatia, revealing shipwrecks and halting river commerce in weeks of historic drought

By ECONEWS
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August 11, 2026 at 6:35 AM
NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto just once in 2015, but more than a decade later scientists returned to its old images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed across the frozen surface

NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto just once in 2015, but more than a decade later scientists returned to its old images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed across the frozen surface

By ECONEWS
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August 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
A Byzantine ship that had been sunk at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea for more than 1,300 years was discovered, and after recovering its 600 grams of gold, archaeologists realized that it was likely not carrying just any passengers

A Byzantine ship that had been sunk at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea for more than 1,300 years was discovered, and after recovering its 600 grams of gold, archaeologists realized that it was likely not carrying just any passengers

By ECONEWS
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August 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM
IQIP offshore wind hammer used to drive a massive steel turbine foundation into the seabed

A 700-ton hammer was built to drive gigantic wind turbine foundations into the seabed, and its 7,500-kilojoule blows show just how enormous offshore wind construction has become

By ECONEWS
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August 10, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Large herd of cattle grazing across an expansive agricultural pasture.

One-third of global farmland drives two-thirds of environmental degradation, forcing a reckoning on agricultural concentration and land use reform

By ECONEWS
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August 10, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Aerial view of wetlands and lakes across the Siberian landscape in Russia.

Siberia’s summer methane emissions roughly doubled between 2010 and 2023, revealing how rapidly the region responds to warming and thaw

By ECONEWS
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August 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of a U.S. coastal wetland where marshes help protect shorelines from rising sea levels.

Eighty-four percent of U.S. coastal wetlands are not keeping pace with rising seas, leaving the nation’s defense against storm surge increasingly compromised

By ECONEWS
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August 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Workers build Camp Century beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Cold War.

An abandoned Cold War base buried under Greenland ice contains radioactive waste, diesel fuel, and wastewater that could eventually mobilize if climate warming accelerates

By ECONEWS
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August 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A brown bear with two cubs climbs and rubs against a tree in the French Pyrenees, captured by a wildlife camera.

French Pyrenees brown bears show signs of recovery with twelve cubs and a twenty-nine-year-old male recorded among six hundred eighty-five tracks and sightings

By ECONEWS
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August 9, 2026 at 10:36 AM
A giant European wels catfish caught and released in France's Saône River after a 20-minute fight.

Two anglers in France land a nearly seven-foot catfish in the Saône River after a twenty-minute fight and release it back alive

By ECONEWS
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August 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM
India’s first hydrogen-powered train operating on the Jind-Sonipat railway route

India launched its first hydrogen-powered train, and in just eight days, it had already traveled more than 1,200 kilometers without using diesel, resulting in savings of more than 3,200 liters of fuel

By ECONEWS
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August 9, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Blood Falls on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, where iron-rich brine flows onto the surface and supports active marine-derived microorganisms.

For the first time, researchers found that Antarctica’s mysterious red falls are not blood but ocean, trapped for millennia beneath ice with a microbial ecosystem that could transform glacial science

By ECONEWS
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August 9, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Man excavating the forest floor where a 2,700-year-old bronze sword was found in Poland

A man was searching for objects with his metal detector in a forest in Poland when he found a 2,700-year-old sword, and as soon as he saw it, he realized it was best not to dig it up

By ECONEWS
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August 9, 2026 at 5:31 AM
deep-ocean-turbulent-mixing-climate-diagram

Tiny ocean swirls smaller than a coin alter climate, carbon, and nutrients within a single year through deep mixing of water layers

By ECONEWS
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August 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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