Javier Niño

Javier Niño has been a Spanish National Police officer since 2017 and a journalist specialising in employment, labour law and Social Security, with more than seven years of writing experience. At ECOnews he covers environment, energy and sustainability news, focusing on how new regulations and court rulings affect people in their everyday lives.
Rows of ground-mounted solar panels on a grassy lot in Storrs, Connecticut

Solar panel recycling in the US costs $15 to $45 per module while a landfill can take one for under $1, and with up to 1 million tons of old panels expected by 2030, most recyclers still only keep the glass and frames

By Javier Niño
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November 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
A Delta Pack gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone wolves number 84 across seven packs and one new group at the end of 2025, three decades after 41 were released, and researchers still disagree about how much the predators changed elk, willows and streams

By Javier Niño
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November 12, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald underway in 1971, four years before it sank in Lake Superior

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with all 29 crew aboard, and the bow, the upside-down stern and the hatch covers a Navy robot filmed 530 feet down still leave investigators split on the cause

By Javier Niño
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November 8, 2026 at 8:16 AM
A Kodiak brown bear stands in an Alaska stream holding a salmon it has caught

Do bears hibernate? Black bears in northern Alaska can stay dormant for seven to eight months without eating, drinking or urinating, yet Shenandoah National Park says they aren’t true hibernators, and a sleeping grizzly’s heart slows to 19 beats a minute

By Javier Niño
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November 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Air source heat pump outdoor unit running while covered in snow beside a house

Heat pump vs furnace: Maine’s 2026 fuel survey priced heat pump warmth at roughly $31 to $32 per million Btu against $13 to $25 for piped gas, so the furnace still wins in gas homes while propane, oil and baseboard households save

By Javier Niño
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November 3, 2026 at 9:12 AM
The Greenland Wildlife Overpass spanning Interstate 25 in Douglas County, Colorado, seen from across open grassland with a small pond in the foreground

Colorado’s 200-foot wildlife bridge over I-25 is being credited with a 91% drop in crashes with animals, but the state’s own study shows fences and underpasses reached that figure in 2024, before the bridge was finished

By Javier Niño
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October 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Wide, calm stretch of the White River in Indianapolis seen from the West 16th Street bridge, with green banks, a sandbar on the left and the downtown skyline on the horizon.

Indianapolis built the Emrichsville Dam on the White River in 1899 so Riverside Park could have a boating lake, and 127 years and several drownings later, crews are tearing it out so fish can move up and down the river again

By Javier Niño
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October 31, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Westminster Abbey's north front lit up at night, with its large rose window and Gothic gables framed by autumn leaves.

Westminster Abbey’s Roman stone coffin was made for a Londoner named Valerius Amandinus in the fourth century, yet the man inside died between 987 and 1052, and the Abbey’s archaeologist has narrowed him down to two Saxon abbots

By Javier Niño
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October 31, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Close-up of four long Neanderthal hand bones fanned out in a lit museum display case

In Abauntz Cave in northern Spain, archaeologists have found the first Neanderthal remains ever identified in Navarre, six bones from a man’s right hand dated to about 46,000 years ago, and at first nobody realized they were human

By Javier Niño
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October 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
A visitor leans in with a magnifying glass to examine a small dark figurine in a glass case among stacked pale crates in a dark-blue museum gallery

A museum in Lucerne is showing what Switzerland’s melting glaciers have given up, from 8,000-year-old deer antler to a crushed mayonnaise tube, in a year when the country’s glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume, the second-worst loss on record

By Javier Niño
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October 30, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Bare, rocky upper slopes on the south side of Mount Hood in late summer, with a small patch of the Palmer Snowfield and a few conifers under a clear blue sky

A meltwater pond at the foot of Mount Hood’s Coalman Glacier has grown larger than in previous years, and the USGS says a sudden release could send a debris flow down the White River toward the Highway 35 bridge

By Javier Niño
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October 30, 2026 at 7:31 AM
A Canada lynx with tufted ears and large furred paws walks across bright snow in profile

A camera set up to study forests in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest photographed a Canada lynx in June, the first confirmed in the state in about 25 years according to New Mexico State University, and it lives in the kind of forest crews thin to fight wildfires

By Javier Niño
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October 29, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Two Laysan albatrosses face each other on a grassy patch of Midway Atoll, with Wisdom on the right wearing a red leg band and fluffy brown chicks on the ground nearby.

Wisdom, the Laysan albatross banded on Midway Atoll in 1956, is about 75 and the oldest known wild bird, and as albatrosses return to the atoll this fall the question is whether she will nest again after a season with no egg

By Javier Niño
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October 29, 2026 at 1:46 PM
A hand holds a dark, round graphite pebble about the size of a billiard ball in front of a blurred autumn forest.

Amazon will fund the development of 12 small nuclear reactors on the site of a former coal plant on Indiana’s Wabash River, 960 megawatts in all, but no decision to build them has been made and no construction date or cost has been given

By Javier Niño
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October 29, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Machinery inside a rock tunnel at the Onkalo nuclear waste repository in Finland.

Finland has granted the world’s first operating licence to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel, in copper canisters about 1,410 feet down in the bedrock of Olkiluoto island, and the last tunnels are not due to be sealed until after the 2120s

By Javier Niño
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October 27, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Swallows perched in rows on power lines before their autumn migration

Swallows and house martins have almost vanished from the ponds of a Czech town before October, when in many years they are still around, and an ornithologist says most migrants are already gone

By Javier Niño
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October 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Saildrone 1092, a crewless sailboat, heading south from Storm Bay off Tasmania

In the Southern Ocean, four 23-foot crewless sailboats will measure CO2 where ships rarely go in winter

By Javier Niño
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October 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
A silver denarius of Emperor Domitian standing upright among the 934 Roman denarii of the Wesseling hoard

A metal detectorist near Cologne stopped digging after 15 silver coins and called archaeologists, who then found 934 Roman denarii, the largest hoard from Hadrian’s time ever found in Germany

By Javier Niño
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October 2, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Rendering of the neurons in the central nervous system of a male fruit fly, from the brain to the nerve cord

Janelia scientists spent 18 years mapping every neuron in a male fruit fly, 166,700 cells and 125 million connections, and days after the map came out programmers had it playing Doom

By Javier Niño
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October 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Older man sitting calmly on a quiet porch at night without Christmas lights, reflecting simplicity and peace of mind

Skipping Christmas lights is not proof of a cold neighbor; studies on autonomy, clutter and time hint at other reasons, though none examined decorating

By Javier Niño
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April 22, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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