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ModRoof modular panels made from recycled cardboard and coconut husk fiber being installed on a low-income home.

A man builds roofs from cardboard and farm waste for precarious homes, and after installing hundreds he proves impact can be humble, cheap, and scalable

By ECONEWS
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May 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Archaeologist uncovering a large ceramic burial urn embedded under tree roots in the Amazon rainforest.

Archaeologists find ceramic urns hidden under a fallen tree in the Amazon, and the unlikely hiding place hints at human stories the forest kept for centuries

By ECONEWS
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May 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Close-up of a small bat from the Myotis genus showing its sharp teeth and facial features in detail.

Scientists identify a new bat species, Myotis himalaicus, and its “very unique” traits reignite the debate over what we are still missing in mountain ecosystems

By ECONEWS
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May 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Cardboard cooler box filled with ice and beer bottles, designed to keep drinks cold using a recyclable insulated structure.

A Brazilian entrepreneur’s recyclable cardboard cooler keeps drinks cold for six hours and sells 40,000 units a month

By ECONEWS
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May 28, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Petrobras FPSO vessel docked and prepared for offshore deployment, used to produce and store oil in deepwater fields.

While Brazil debated the energy transition, Petrobras greenlit 11 new pre-salt platforms through 2027, and Búzios alone will get 6 FPSOs as it targets 1 million barrels a day

By ECONEWS
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May 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of Raffles City Chongqing showing The Crystal, a horizontal skyscraper linking multiple towers high above the city.

China built a 984-foot “horizontal skyscraper” linking four towers 820 feet up, and the about 13,200-ton structure turns architecture into a balance test

By ECONEWS
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May 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
White stork standing in a wetland surrounded by water and vegetation, representing wildlife in protected ecosystems like Doñana.

A stork swallowed 150 rubber bands and ended up in Doñana, a brutal example of how small everyday trash can become a death sentence for wildlife

By ECONEWS
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May 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Technician installing a residential heat pump system as part of the transition to electric home heating.

Germany and the U.S. begin moving to phase out gas heaters in homes, and heat pumps are emerging as the replacement that changes bills, habits, and emissions

By ECONEWS
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May 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Carnarvon flapjack octopus specimen viewed from below, showing its webbed arms and deep red body.

A giant-eyed octopus is discovered in the deep, and the new species Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis is a reminder of how much ocean still has no name

By ECONEWS
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May 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Underground tunnel inside an Italian Alps mine where a new data center is being built below the mountain.

An active mine in the Italian Alps becomes a $58 million underground data center, pairing servers with apples and wine in a cooling bet built where ore once came out

By ECONEWS
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May 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A visitor at Crater of Diamonds State Park holds a small diamond found during a search in Arkansas.

A New York tourist finds a diamond the size of a human tooth, and a casual visit turns into a once-in-a-lifetime geology story

By ECONEWS
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May 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Climbers on a rocky cliff at Monte Conero in Italy, where fossil track marks were discovered.

Italian climbers find fossils of sea turtles that were fleeing an earthquake 80 million years ago, and the “escape” is preserved in stone like a moving scene

By ECONEWS
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May 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Fossilized Baby Yingliang dinosaur embryo curled inside an egg from southern China.

An unborn dinosaur is found inside its egg after 70 million years, and the fossil offers a rare look at the final moments before hatch day

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Traditional houses and cobblestone streets in São Tomé das Letras, constructed entirely from local quartzite slabs.

A mystical Brazilian city was built on a crystal mountain at about 4,724 feet, and its century-old homes and churches challenge engineering with a secret hidden underfoot

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspecting the sediment tracks left behind by an industrial nodule-mining collector on the abyssal seafloor.

Scientists are still hunting for hard evidence of what deep-sea mining really does, and the fear is the damage to fragile ecosystems could outpace our ability to measure it

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A view inside the Large Hadron Collider’s tunnel, showing the 17-mile ring of superconducting magnets used for particle collisions.

With a 17-mile ring buried as deep as 574 feet under the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest particle accelerator is an underground “city” built to push physics to its limit

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A dense mat of green macrophytes choking the surface of the Dourados River near a bridge in Lins, Brazil.

Giant aquatic plants blanket the Dourados River in Lins, block boats, and wreck docks, while 400+ inspections and about $2.7 million in fines spotlight a fast-moving water-quality crisis

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Prince William standing in front of the Nansledan housing development in Cornwall, part of the Duchy of Cornwall estate.

Prince William will sell one-fifth of the Duchy of Cornwall, and he says the profits will be funneled into housing and nature projects chosen for the biggest social and environmental impact

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
NASA engineer testing next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blades inside a JPL laboratory chamber.

NASA engineers build a supersonic rotor for Mars, and carbon-fiber blades at JPL are already nearing Mach 1.08 in tests that push off-world flight to the edge

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Small gold particles visible in a water sample, illustrating trace amounts of gold found in seawater.

Scientists confirm seawater across every ocean contains gold, but the real surprise is why no one can mine it

By ECONEWS
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May 24, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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