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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.
German officials meet under NATO and German flags as MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones and maritime patrol aircraft fly over warships at sea.

Germany is buying U.S.-made maritime drones for $1.5 billion, exposing cracks in Europe’s military sovereignty

January 14, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Artist rendering of Japan’s H3 rocket in flight above Earth, with the upper stage firing as it climbs toward orbit.

Japan looked to the skies once again with its H3 rocket until the engine malfunctioned and minutes later the plan began to unravel

January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
They were told to take down their Christmas lights at a base in Florida, and the reason was not the Air Force. It was the lease contract they had signed

They were told to take down their Christmas lights at a base in Florida, and the reason was not the Air Force. It was the lease contract they had signed

January 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Static test firing of the P160C solid rocket motor at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, sending a huge smoke plume skyward.

Europe has just fired up a more powerful engine in French Guiana, and the change could alter who calls the shots in space launches

January 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
People stand amid collapsed buildings in Haiti, with an InSAR satellite deformation map overlay showing post-quake ground movement and the epicenter

After the major earthquake in Haiti, something continued to move underground for weeks, and scientists have just discovered what it was

January 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
MeerKAT radio telescope dishes in South Africa under a star-filled sky, used to detect hydrogen in distant galaxies

They pointed a radio telescope for less than three hours and, without even looking for them, ended up finding 49 new galaxies hidden in the data

January 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Illustration of ESA ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover drilling into Mars while a NASA rocket launches in the background.

The European mission aiming to find life on Mars now has a date and a key partner: NASA will provide a rocket and nuclear “heaters,” with launch planned for 2028 and landing in 2030

January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Artist’s impression of JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft orbiting Venus with the Sun in the background

Japan bids farewell to Akatsuki, the probe that spent eight years monitoring Venus and changed what we knew about its hellish atmosphere

January 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Skull with disturbing message and spikes

TikTok is turning real human skulls into trendy “decor” items, and experts warn that there may be a much darker story behind them

January 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Goodbye to our universe as we know it: a new calculation predicts when it will end

Goodbye to our universe as we know it: a new calculation predicts when it will end

January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Where today there is only sand and wind, archaeologists have found evidence of a landscape filled with water, food, and human settlements

Where today there is only sand and wind, archaeologists have found evidence of a landscape filled with water, food, and human settlements

January 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

January 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM
A German physicist looked at the battle for 2035 and revealed a fact that changes everything: an electric car uses up to six times more energy than a gasoline car

A German physicist looked at the battle for 2035 and revealed a fact that changes everything: an electric car uses up to six times more energy than a gasoline car

January 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

January 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

January 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
A plumber just months away from retirement lifted a section of floor in Vienna and uncovered a rusty box containing 30 kilograms of gold coins in perfect condition

A plumber just months away from retirement lifted a section of floor in Vienna and uncovered a rusty box containing 30 kilograms of gold coins in perfect condition

January 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Artist view of TOI-715 b, a super-Earth 137 light-years away in the habitable zone, orbiting a cool red dwarf star.

NASA detects a “super-Earth” just 137 light-years away in the habitable zone: the most intriguing detail is that its year lasts only 19 days

January 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are.

If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are

January 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Aerial view of Monte Sierpe “Band of Holes” 5,200 pits in ordered rows on a ridge above Peru’s Pisco Valley.

More than 5,200 holes lined up as if they were numbers hid more than just an archaeological mystery

January 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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