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Video frames showing a man entering a Dutch canal to rescue a gull trapped in a plastic bag

A man saw a gull struggling to fly from a Dutch canal with a blue plastic bag tangled around its legs, jumped into the water as dozens watched and freed the bird, but not before getting bitten and nearly becoming trapped in underwater plants himself

By ECONEWS
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September 14, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Blue Wuppertal Schwebebahn trains suspended above the Wupper River in Germany

Germany built a “flying train” above a crowded river valley in 1901 because there was barely any room left on the ground, and 125 years later the eight-mile suspended railway still carries more than 80,000 passengers every day

By ECONEWS
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September 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Aerial view of a forest-filled doline at Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam

Deep inside a mountain in Vietnam lies a cave passage at least 4 miles long and up to 655 feet high, where collapsed ceilings let sunlight pour underground and feed a 165-foot-tall forest while mist and clouds form above an underground river

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Aerial view of offshore wind turbines at the Global Tech I wind farm in the North Sea.

The wind changed before reaching a North Sea wind farm, and lasers caught the slowdown almost two miles away

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Wind-sculpted snow across the East Antarctic Plateau under a clear blue sky

Satellites scanned Antarctica between 2004 and 2016 and found about 100 shallow hollows where the snow plunged to roughly −144°F (−98°C), revealing how darkness, extraordinarily dry air and almost no wind can create the coldest surfaces measured on Earth

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Kansas rancher Pete Ferrell standing in a field with wind turbines behind him

A Kansas rancher let 50 wind turbines rise across his 7,000-acre cattle ranch in 2005, and 20 years later the cows still graze beneath them while wind royalties provide roughly half his income and help keep the land in the family

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Rocky seafloor illuminated by sunlight filtering through clear ocean water.

Old radioactive material from Oak Ridge could power the seafloor, but the underwater station still exists mostly in tests

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Researcher adjusting optical components on a laser table in a quantum physics laboratory lit in red and blue

Heat flowed from cold to hot in a quantum experiment, and the reason was not free energy but information

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Workers handle recycled glass sand during a coastal restoration project in Louisiana.

New Orleans is turning discarded bottles into coastal sand, and each crushed glass load can help rebuild a shrinking wetland

By ECONEWS
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September 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Two Argentine ant workers passing food mouth to mouth on a cactus

Argentine ants formed a supercolony across Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, linking nests across roughly 3,700 miles

By ECONEWS
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September 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The Solomon Siren sculpture taking a wave on the reef where Kale Island used to be

Where Kale Island vanished in the Solomon Islands, a silent sculpture now rises and disappears with the tide

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Semi-truck carrying an oversized concrete utility pole base beside damage to an Oklahoma Turnpike bridge.

One unpermitted truck load hit six Oklahoma bridges in a single trip, and the mistake cost nearly half a million dollars

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Campers rescue a young fawn from the Ohio River after the animal struggled against the current.

A fawn fought the Ohio River current for nearly an hour, and her rescue shows when wildlife really needs human help

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Pronghorn standing beside fencing and rows of solar panels in the American Southwest.

North America’s fastest land mammal met a solar farm in New Mexico, and the fence gaps became the real test

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Platypterygius australis ichthyosaur fossil displayed at Kronosaurus Korner in Queensland.

A Queensland fossil preserved an ichthyosaur’s last meal, but the hunter soon became food for something even larger

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Purple Nootka lupin covering an Icelandic valley floor below a glacier

Iceland’s purple fields began as ecological repair, but the Alaskan lupin is now becoming the problem it was meant to solve

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Deep-sea vehicle illuminating a small section of the ocean floor in darkness.

Scientists say we have seen less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, and the unknown part is bigger than the map suggests

By ECONEWS
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September 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Sono Motors solar passenger trailer fitted with 20 solar panels behind an MVG bus in Munich.

A Munich bus trailer generated power from 20 solar panels, but the company behind the diesel-saving idea ran out of money

By ECONEWS
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September 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Large Wels catfish swimming in the waters near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

A dark shape under Chernobyl’s green water went viral as a mutant catfish, but the real transformation began when the pumps stopped

By ECONEWS
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September 10, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Illustration of light interacting with an all-optical photonic time crystal.

Scientists built the first all-optical photonic time crystal, and it could change how light is controlled before computers can use it

By ECONEWS
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September 10, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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