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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.
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

July 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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

July 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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

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

July 27, 2026 at 5:00 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

July 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) running through grassland after returning to the wild in Uruguay.

A species extinct for more than 100 years has returned to the fields and moved conservationists, one of those rare stories where nature seems to get a second chance

July 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Concept illustration of NASA's future Moon Base supported by commercial lunar landers and scientific infrastructure.

NASA will pay $590 million to three companies to send construction materials to the Moon, a key step toward making a future lunar base feel less distant

July 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Museum reconstruction of a Neanderthal family with an infant, illustrating research on the rapid early growth of Neanderthal babies.

Neanderthal babies were absolute units, according to a new study that changes how we imagine our most famous human relatives from the very start of life

July 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Engineers install a sand-filled structural damper inside a building to reduce vibrations and earthquake forces.

Engineers developed sand dampers that could replace oil and protect buildings and bridges more cheaply and sustainably when vibrations or earthquakes hit

July 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Aerial view of Perisher ski resort with snow-covered slopes in Australia's Kosciuszko National Park.

Artificial ski runs laid like white strips over brown slopes may be saving seasons for now, but they are also feeding the same climate problem that is melting the snow

July 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A jukumari, or Andean bear, stands in native forest near the headwaters of Bolivia's Parapetí River.

The jukumari has reappeared near the headwaters of the Parapetí River, a hopeful sign for conservationists in Bolivia’s Chaco because spotting such an elusive bear is not an everyday thing

July 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM
High-resolution rendering of Denmark’s proposed North Sea Energy Island, surrounded by offshore wind turbines and a breakwater.

Denmark is studying an artificial energy island in the North Sea that could power up to 10 million homes by 2040, basically a giant offshore outlet in the middle of the sea

July 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Fossil of the Ordovician crinoid Dendrocrinus simcoensis showing arms, stalk, and rare pyritized tube feet preserved in dark shale.

Paleontologists announced a soft-tissue discovery millions of years old, a rare find because these delicate remains usually disappear long before anyone can study them

July 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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A volcano may have erupted remnants of Earth’s primordial magma ocean, material so ancient it could come from the planet’s earliest chapters of fire and rock

July 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Close-up macro photograph of an adult common bed bug (Cimex lectularius).

Bedbug DNA reveals that these insects have been tied to humans for far longer than we would like to imagine, a sticky and seriously uncomfortable history

July 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Hands glow violet and blue under ultraviolet light, illustrating the idea of converting ordinary sunlight into higher-energy UV for new chemical reactions.

Scientists found a way to turn visible sunlight into ultraviolet light, a kind of energy trick that could open unusual doors in chemistry, medicine, and solar technology

July 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM
ROV manipulator grasps a degraded VHS cassette 8,700 ft deep on the Argentine seafloor.

An underwater robot dove nearly 13,000 ft. in the Argentine Sea and found fishing nets, bags, and even a VHS tape, as if the ocean floor were keeping a trash pile from another era

July 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Aerial view of a large reverse-osmosis desalination complex on the Atlantic coast, with seawater intake and brine outfall channels.

Morocco is getting serious about water security with mega-desalination plants and new rules for cities of millions, a massive bet that shows how far the water crisis can go

July 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
An engineering rendering of a carbon-fiber structural battery component designed for aircraft landing gear integration.

Spain created aircraft landing gear capable of storing energy like a battery, a strange idea that could turn the force of every landing into usable electricity

July 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A medical professional performing a nasal lavage procedure on a patient to collect samples for microplastic analysis.

Researchers at a Brazilian University are looking for microplastics in the airways of sleep apnea patients, raising an uncomfortable question about how much plastic we may be breathing in while we sleep

July 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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