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Aerial view of the Maullín River wetlands in southern Chile, a protected ecosystem under environmental pressure

Chile has just imposed a fine of about $4.1 million on a real estate development consisting of 87 lots along the banks of the Maullín River, and the case is already being viewed as a stern warning to rural real estate developers

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July 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Group of Andean rheas walking across a dry highland landscape in Peru, a critically endangered bird species in the Andes

The largest running bird in the Peruvian Andes can reach speeds of about 37 miles per hour, but it now faces a threat from which it cannot escape: a lack of funding

By ECONEWS
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July 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Barcelona urban street selected for biochar asphalt test using olive waste to cut emissions

Barcelona wants to turn a random street into a climate laboratory by 2027 using asphalt made from olive pits and pine waste, which could reduce CO2 emissions from the top layer by up to 75%

By ECONEWS
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July 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Yaguara the jaguar wearing a tracking collar as she leaves her transport crate in Bolivia

Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle

By ECONEWS
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July 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Dania Yasaret Saldaña Martínez presenting her HidroAC+ system that reuses air conditioner water for crops

A student from Nuevo Laredo noticed something that we all see but that almost no one pays attention to: the water dripping from the air conditioner. She turned it into HidroAC+, a system for growing plants in a city where temperatures can exceed 104 °F for months on end

By ECONEWS
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July 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Diego Saldanha removing plastic waste from floating ecobarrier in Brazil’s Atuba River

For years, he watched as bottles, furniture, and plastic floated past the back of his house, as if the river were a floating landfill, until this Brazilian father built a homemade barrier that has already removed more than 40 metric tons of trash

By ECONEWS
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July 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Artificial water canal in Ceará, Brazil, part of a large-scale drought mitigation project

Brazil is nearing completion of an “artificial river” nearly 145 kilometers long in Ceará, a large-scale project that is already 92% complete and promises to bring water to communities where drought has been a constant for generations

By ECONEWS
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July 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Female Edwards's pheasant born at Bioparc Fuengirola before joining an international conservation program to restore the species in Vietnam.

A pheasant born in Málaga has just traveled thousands of kilometers to Vietnam in an effort to restore a species that has not been reliably sighted in its forests since 2000

By ECONEWS
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July 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Compact 2.24 kWh balcony solar battery sold by Lidl in Germany for storing electricity generated by residential solar panels.

What appears to be a simple supermarket product could be hiding a small energy revolution: a 2.24-kWh battery that costs about $350 and is already attracting attention across Europe

By ECONEWS
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July 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
European eel in shallow freshwater river with low water levels during summer drought.

It isn’t the Iberian lynx or the polar bear closest to extinction in Spain, but a fish you can still legally catch as summer dries its rivers to stagnant pools

By ECONEWS
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July 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Portable home battery plugged into a wall outlet inside an apartment.

Across Australia, people are quietly plugging illegal batteries into their apartment walls, and the underground rush to power balconies with the sun is forcing a change few saw coming

By ECONEWS
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July 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Aerial view of the Darlington SMR nuclear construction site in Ontario, Canada.

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

By ECONEWS
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July 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Offshore wind turbine platform being transported for installation at sea.

While data centers strain power grids, consume water, and are a source of complaints on land, a San Francisco based company wants to move part of the artificial intelligence boom out to sea, inside floating wind turbines

By ECONEWS
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July 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Person holding used coffee grounds in a paper filter after brewing.

It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds

By ECONEWS
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July 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Scattered invasive pine trees spreading across a dry hillside in New Zealand.

What appeared to be a simple tree growing on a hillside can turn into a dense stand of invasive pine trees capable of depleting watersheds, displacing native plants, and altering an entire landscape

By ECONEWS
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July 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of coastal flooding with seawater covering roads and land due to rising sea levels.

Sea levels are not rising solely because Greenland and Antarctica are melting, but because the ocean is expanding from within, and that invisible factor alone accounts for 43% of the rise recorded since 1960

By ECONEWS
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July 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Chinantec Indigenous women monitoring wildlife in tropical forest as part of conservation programs in Oaxaca.

In Oaxaca, some women walk up to 10 hours through the jungle to check camera traps that have captured images of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and 24 other species of mammals

By ECONEWS
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July 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Close up of salt crystals used as base material for sodium ion batteries

The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-hours for sodium batteries by 2030

By ECONEWS
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July 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Floating solar panels under ice with air bubbles preventing freezing damage

An experiment conducted in Canada has just demonstrated something that sounds incredibly strange: solar panels floating on a frozen pond continued to generate electricity thanks to a waterproof foam and underwater bubbles

By ECONEWS
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July 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Moment Energy megafactory in Vancouver repurposing used EV batteries into energy storage systems

An electric car’s used battery does not stop working when the car is no longer in use, and a megafactory in Vancouver wants to give it a second life to power hospitals, data centers, and microgrids

By ECONEWS
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July 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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