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Arctic bobtail squid (Rossia moelleri) photographed alive on the seafloor in Northeast Greenland National Park.

An Arctic bobtail squid was filmed alive for the first time, and what she was protecting under the ice made the sighting even rarer

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July 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration showing mixed plastic waste being converted into high-purity hydrogen through a new thermal treatment process.

Scientists turned mixed plastic waste into hydrogen fuel without sorting it first, and the carbon problem did not escape the reactor

By ECONEWS
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July 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Common eastern bumblebee collecting pollen from a flower during a study on pesticide effects.

Bumblebees survived low doses of a modern pesticide, but scientists found the real damage hidden in genes linked to the next generation

By ECONEWS
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July 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
GPS-collared bull elephant Z16 traveling through the KAZA conservation landscape in southern Africa.

A GPS collar on a young bull elephant in Zambia recorded 7,400 miles across four countries and six national parks, tracing ancient routes that border fences now block

By ECONEWS
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July 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Used electric vehicle battery prepared for recycling at an auto salvage facility.

The cheapest and longest lasting electric car battery is the one nobody wants to recycle, and Colorado passed a law to fix the math before those packs become hazardous waste

By ECONEWS
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July 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Homes with rooftop solar panels in Australia where batteries can join a virtual power plant.

Only 24% of Australian battery owners will hand control to an operator, even though it nearly doubles their savings, a really hard sell in the words of one energy boss

By ECONEWS
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July 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
School of reef fish gathers around the base of an offshore wind turbine foundation in Taiwan.

Divers found grouper and snapper massing around 69 steel wind turbine foundations off Taiwan, because on a flat sandy seabed that is the only thing that looks like a cliff

By ECONEWS
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July 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
NASA satellite image captured on May 15, 2026, showing the underwater volcanic eruption in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

NASA satellites caught an underwater eruption in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea that could raise a new island, though the tremors have been fading since June

By ECONEWS
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July 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Abandoned ships stranded on the dried bed of the Aral Sea after decades of water loss.

The dried bed of the Aral Sea has already released 748 million tons of CO2, and Spanish scientists want to refill it with water before another 605 million escape

By ECONEWS
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July 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A physical model illustrating the kagome lattice structure found in the newly identified superconducting materials.

The search for room-temperature superconductors just got a huge boost from artificial intelligence, help that could speed up one of physics’ hardest dreams

By ECONEWS
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July 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Close-up of giant sauropod dinosaur footprints at the rediscovered Saijrakh tracksite in northern Mongolia, with a researcher for scale.

Giant footprints in Mongolia are shaking up what we knew about dinosaurs, because their size and shape tell a story that does not fit neatly into the old picture

By ECONEWS
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July 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The 1,300-year-old wooden skis recovered from the Digervarden ice patch in Norway.

Melting ice in Norway revealed 1,300-year-old skis in remarkable condition, an icy window into how people moved through high mountains centuries ago

By ECONEWS
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July 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Earthship home built with recycled tires, earth walls, and passive solar design in a desert landscape.

A home built with tires keeps a steady 68 °F without heating or air conditioning, a sustainable oddity that turns trash into comfort

By ECONEWS
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July 28, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Student inventor Zabeer Zarif Akhter testing his plasma water purification prototype in a laboratory.

At 17, a student in Bangladesh used old laptop batteries, broken circuit boards, and parts from an old tube TV to build a solar-powered water purifier

By ECONEWS
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July 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Martín Santiago Schmull stands beside the outdoor air intake of a Canadian well earth-to-air cooling system installed in his backyard.

He buried tubes in his yard and cooled his house without air conditioning using an old geothermal system, a simple idea that sounds very tempting when the heat gets nasty

By ECONEWS
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July 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Electric car charging at a public station in Spain as lower energy costs continue driving EV adoption.

Driving 100 kilometers in an electric car can cost just 2 or 3 euros compared with 10 to 15 euros in gasoline, a difference that is starting to hit wallets hard

By ECONEWS
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July 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Changan Nevo A06, the first mass-produced passenger electric vehicle powered by a sodium-ion battery developed with CATL.

China has introduced the first electric vehicle with a sodium-ion battery capable of driving 400 km on one charge, a bet that could make the next generation of cars cheaper

By ECONEWS
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July 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) on the Barents Sea seafloor after becoming one of the world's most successful marine invasive species.

Soviet scientists released giant red king crabs into the Barents Sea in the 1960s to build a fishery, but decades later those invaders are still changing the seafloor

By ECONEWS
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July 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Aerial view of the geotube coastal protection project in Poonthura, India, designed to reduce wave energy and rebuild eroding beaches.

India is sinking giant fabric tubes filled with sand 20 ft. underwater to create an invisible barrier against waves and try to rebuild beaches that are disappearing

By ECONEWS
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July 27, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Dense forest of invasive Australian melaleuca trees growing across wetlands in the Florida Everglades.

The United States planted Australian melaleuca trees in 1906 to drain Florida wetlands, and now they have invaded nearly 500,000 acres, changing fire, water, and native life

By ECONEWS
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July 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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