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People and cyclists on a European city street, illustrating daily life in a region that could be affected by sharp cooling if the AMOC collapses.

A climate model simulates an AMOC collapse and finds temperatures in northwestern Europe could fall 10-15 °C

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March 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Iranian Kilo-class submarine sailing on the surface, illustrating renewed naval activity in the Persian Gulf

A satellite image reveals that Iran has returned one of its Russian Kilo submarines to service after months in dry dock, and the move comes just as the United States bolsters the Gulf with the USS Gerald R. Ford

By ECONEWS
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March 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Illustration of Alnashetri, a tiny bird-like dinosaur from Patagonia, showing the species that is reshaping alvarezsauroid history

A dinosaur the size of a cat and weighing less than 2.2 pounds changes history; the 90-million-year-old Alnashetri fossil rewrites its lineage

By ECONEWS
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March 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Person walking across cracked dry land carrying water containers, illustrating worsening drought and future global water shortages.

A study warns that “Day Zero” water scarcity could hit the Mediterranean, southern Africa and North America this century

By ECONEWS
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March 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Tree plantations and restored vegetation on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northern China, where regreening affected water availability

China planted trees like crazy to slow the advance of the Gobi Desert and ended up causing another big problem: water began to disappear from the soil and aquifers as rainfall patterns changed

By ECONEWS
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March 14, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Dark image with an industrial facility visible at the top, illustrating the Fukushima nuclear site tied to research on microbial life in radioactive water.

Fifteen years after the disaster, the Fukushima reactors hide a secret: scientists detect life where radiation should have prevented everything

By ECONEWS
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March 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
LignoSat wooden cube satellite prototype with metal supports, illustrating Japan’s experiment to reduce orbital debris with wood.

Japan launches a wooden box into space as a “strange but brilliant solution” to an increasingly serious problem, orbital debris, and proposes an idea that seems like science fiction, but seeks to prevent the future of space from becoming an unmanageable landfill

By ECONEWS
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March 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Submerged ruins of a medieval settlement on the floor of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, with stone structures and graves underwater

The archaeological discovery of the century: an Atlantis-like city discovered at the bottom of a lake

By ECONEWS
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March 13, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Elon Musk standing in front of a SpaceX rocket on a launch pad, illustrating the debate over Moon and Mars settlement plans

Elon Musk rethinks the fate of human civilization beyond Mars and sends a message that shifts the focus of the space debate

By ECONEWS
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March 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Global view of Mars showing major surface features, illustrating research on how the planet’s gravity may influence Earth’s ice age timing.

The twist is brutal: Mars only has 1/10 of Earth’s mass… but its gravity would determine when ice ages arrive here

By ECONEWS
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March 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Arctic coastal landscape with melting ice and exposed tundra, illustrating how warming may open the region to invasive species.

More than 2,500 invasive species are poised to conquer the Arctic as the ice disappears

By ECONEWS
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March 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Gloved hand using a pipette in a lab setup with gallium and glassware, illustrating hydrogen production from sunlight and water

Australian scientists have succeeded in producing hydrogen using gallium, sunlight, and seawater: a breakthrough that could make clean energy cheaper

By ECONEWS
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March 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Hundreds of railway workers rebuilding tracks at night in China, illustrating a high-speed rail connection completed in a single operation.

China builds a high-speed railway line in just 9 hours with 1,500 workers, reducing a 7-hour journey to just 90 minutes

By ECONEWS
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March 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artist’s illustration of the Milky Way’s bright galactic center, where scientists propose ultra-dense dark matter instead of a black hole

Scientists propose that the center of the Milky Way does not contain a black hole, but rather ultra-dense dark matter

By ECONEWS
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March 12, 2026 at 10:02 AM
False-color image of Neptune against black space, illustrating new research on the planet’s unusual magnetic field

In 1989, Voyager 2 observed “something that didn’t add up” on Neptune, and it took us decades to understand it. Now, a study published in Nature suggests that dark ice could be the cause of the planet’s strange magnetism

By ECONEWS
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March 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of China’s Three Gorges Dam surrounded by water and low clouds, illustrating the massive hydropower project.

China has already altered the Earth’s rotation with a mega infrastructure project and is now planning a project that will triple the power of the Three Gorges Dam

By ECONEWS
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March 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
A person holds a compact anti-drone device in a workshop, illustrating Ukraine’s Sunray laser and interceptor technology.

Sunray, the laser that aims to change the war in Ukraine: the system that promises to shoot down Russian drones as if it were a 21st-century Iron Dome

By ECONEWS
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March 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Historic handwritten document with a preserved crayfish specimen, illustrating new research on the debated origin of the Iberian crayfish.

What for centuries was considered a native species could in fact be a “royal whim” from 1588, and now science is reopening the debate on the Iberian crab

By ECONEWS
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March 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Aerial view of Spain’s Almendra Dam, a massive hydroelectric structure with a towering concrete wall above a rocky gorge

The colossal Helmantica dam, built in 1970, remains one of Spain’s largest hydroelectric power stations, with a wall as imposing as a medieval fortress

By ECONEWS
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March 11, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Protest sign reading “SNAP feeds families” with a blurred American flag in the background

SNAP work requirements now apply to adults aged 55 to 64, a bigger change than the soda and candy limits

By ECONEWS
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March 11, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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