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Black2Green's 15-tonne-per-day plastics-to-energy facility in Whangārei, New Zealand.

A New Zealand plastic-to-fuel plant can keep operating after an Environment Court ruling, and Zero Waste Aotearoa says the missing emissions evidence is the real alarm

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August 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Modern Australian home with rooftop solar panels and a residential battery energy storage system.

Australia’s home battery installations fell more than 70% in a single month, from 80,000 in April to just over 20,000 in May, after the rebate rules changed

By ECONEWS
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August 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Colombian Navy personnel board a fishing boat during an operation near the Malpelo Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean.

Colombia intercepted a boat with 1,764 pounds of marine animals near Malpelo, and the catch may have come from one of the Pacific’s most protected sanctuaries

By ECONEWS
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August 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
President Donald Trump in front of the Bears Ears landscape after signing proclamations that dramatically reduced the Utah national monument.

Trump cut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 2.93 million acres, leaving barely a tenth protected and reopening the Utah desert to mining and oil

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
High-voltage transmission lines and an electrical substation supplying power to a large AI data center in the United States.

Power lines for AI data centers could cross private land by force, and the legal tool behind it is raising a new climate fight

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Aerial view of the protected River Lugg after a British farmer used heavy machinery to reshape the riverbank

A British farmer drove a 20-metric-ton excavator into a protected river, uprooted 71 mature trees, and the damage he caused in just a few days could take 50 years to disappear

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Worker unloads recycled oyster shells collected from restaurants for coastal reef restoration.

Florida is turning the shells left behind by restaurant patrons into living reefs, but the figure of 500,000 metric tons does not appear in official records

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Empress cicada with transparent wings used to develop an ultrasensitive optical sensor

Scientists have transformed a simple fragment of a cicada’s wing into an optical platform capable of detecting molecular signals that, under normal conditions, would be virtually impossible to detect

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
polymetallic-nodules-deep-sea-minerals

The U.S. wants to auction deep waters around American Samoa, and the minerals lying up to 20,000 feet down could open a new ocean fight

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Low water levels expose sandbanks along the Rhine River during Europe's 2026 summer drought.

Europe’s great rivers are shrinking under heat and drought, and the Danube, Rhine and Loire are showing how fast summer can redraw the continent

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Global CADI map showing projected climate-driven gains and losses in agricultural productivity across the world's croplands.

A new climate map can forecast farm decline almost six miles at a time, and the warning is already visible in one in six croplands

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of an Adélie penguin colony surrounded by guano stains in Antarctica used to study diet changes from satellite imagery.

Satellite images are reading penguin droppings across Antarctica, and the color of the stains is revealing how climate change is reshaping their food web

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Semi-pelagic trawl doors being tested off Spain to reduce seabed contact during commercial fishing.

Scientists are testing “flying doors” that keep trawls above the seabed, and the result could change how fishing scars the ocean floor

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A 3D-printed flow battery cell connected to laboratory testing equipment at Queen's University Belfast.

A $100 battery printed in Belfast could replace expensive lab equipment, and the breakthrough may change how scientists test renewable energy storage

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Louisiana National Guard helicopter carrying recycled Christmas trees for coastal marsh restoration near New Orleans

New Orleans is collecting thousands of used Christmas trees and dropping them from helicopters to slow the loss of land, which has already exceeded 5,000 square kilometers

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A brown bear catches a salmon in an Alaska stream, a key process that helps move marine nutrients into surrounding forests.

Scientists played human voices near Alaska salmon streams, and bears and eagles fled before the forest could receive what the fish carried

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Colobus congoensis, the newly identified monkey species with distinctive orange lips discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A monkey with orange lips was hiding in Congo’s rainforest, and scientists say its discovery is rare enough to change what they knew

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) that has spread through Italy's Po Delta and devastated clam farms.

An American blue crab invaded Italy’s clam lagoons, and fishers in the Po Delta are watching their old work disappear

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, where federal officials are paying to keep more Colorado River water in the reservoir.

The U.S. will pay up to $65 million to leave Colorado River water in Lake Mead, and Hoover Dam explains why

By ECONEWS
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July 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of SpaceX's Starbase launch facility beside the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas.

SpaceX wants 727 acres beside a Texas wildlife refuge, and Indigenous groups say the court must stop the land swap now

By ECONEWS
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July 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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