Kevin Montien

Social communicator and journalist with extensive experience in creating and editing digital content for high-impact media outlets. He stands out for his ability to write news articles, cover international events and his multicultural vision, reinforced by his English language training (B2 level) obtained in Australia.
Neanderthal reconstruction representing one of the archaic human groups known to have contributed DNA to modern humans.

Scientists analyzed hundreds of human genomes and found DNA from two unknown ancient groups: a ghost lineage that split off 800,000 years ago, and another dating back 1.8 million years

By Kevin Montien
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August 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr handling honey bees during his research.

Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr bred honey bees for tropical heat in 1956, and 26 swarming colonies spread across the Western Hemisphere by 1990, transforming pollination patterns

By Kevin Montien
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August 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station above Earth.

NASA contracted SpaceX for $843 million to develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle that will guide the 945,000-pound Space Station into a remote ocean corridor after the last crew returns, controlling the debris footprint

By Kevin Montien
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August 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of As Pontes lake in Galicia, Spain, created by flooding the former open-pit lignite mine.

A closed coal pit in Spain became a lake holding 547 billion liters of water over four years, with scientists documenting chemically distinct layers that show careful oversight remains crucial for ecosystem recovery

By Kevin Montien
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August 20, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid striking Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago.

A carbonaceous asteroid 10-15 kilometers wide struck Mexico’s Yucatán 66 million years ago at 64,000 km/h, and isotope analysis now pinpoints its origin beyond Jupiter as a rare CO-type meteorite

By Kevin Montien
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August 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Satellite image of Hurricane Isaac approaching the Gulf Coast in August 2012.

Stanford researchers paired seismometers with infrasound microphones to capture hurricane forces near the surface, offering a new data stream for forecasting storm intensity without waiting for landfall

By Kevin Montien
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August 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Aerial view of the Boswell Energy Center in Cohasset, Minnesota, where an 85-megawatt solar project is being developed.

Minnesota’s Boswell Solar project brings 177,675 panels and 85 megawatts to a coal-fired site, inheriting an old grid connection in a rare test of how infrastructure shapes renewable cost.

By Kevin Montien
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August 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Antarctic tourists and expedition staff near a penguin colony during a shore landing.

Twenty-five Antarctic guides gave up the job they loved as visitor numbers passed 113,000 in a single season, and the question that pushed them out has no comfortable answer

By Kevin Montien
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August 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Hydrothermal formations at the Lost City field deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

Scientists drilled 4,160 feet into the Atlantic seafloor and found water with a chemical fingerprint of 572°F heating, a clue to how Lost City’s rare alkaline vents survive

By Kevin Montien
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August 17, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Large piles of discarded wind turbine blades cut into sections for disposal.

Wyoming’s landfill holds 1,124 wind turbine blades, but a Missouri cement plant has already found a second life for 7,000 more

By Kevin Montien
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August 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Compact SAXON Q diamond-based quantum computing systems designed to operate at room temperature.

A German startup sells a quantum computer that runs at room temperature in an ordinary server rack, but the qubit count on the label is not the one that matters

By Kevin Montien
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August 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
People planting young trees together during a Green Legacy tree-planting event in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia put 805 million seedlings in the ground in twelve hours with 26 million people helping, and the number that will actually decide whether it worked is still years away

By Kevin Montien
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August 15, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Roy Kim, a 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge finalist who developed a water-from-air irrigation system for plants.

A 13-year-old in Oregon built a chamber that pulls drinking water out of the air for dry farms, and the amount it produced in two hours explains the real problem

By Kevin Montien
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August 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Metropolitan Police officers inspect an electric bicycle during a roadside enforcement operation targeting illegal e-bikes in London.

London police have seized more than 2,500 illegal e-bikes in seven months, already beating all of last year, and the roadside machine they now use explains why so many failed

By Kevin Montien
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August 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Humpback whale with her newborn calf off Kingscliff, Australia

A wildlife photographer captured a humpback whale giving birth, a moment so rare and raw that no aerial footage existed before

By Kevin Montien
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August 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Curiosity rover view of the Miraflores butte surrounded by polygon-covered terrain on Mars.

Honeycomb stone covers a Martian valley, with polygons no bigger than a fingernail, yet vast enough to puzzle geologists

By Kevin Montien
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August 12, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Ancient hominin footprints preserved across a fossil track surface near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Eight hominins crossed the same muddy shore 1.43 million years ago, their footprints a rare window into ancient company and movement

By Kevin Montien
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August 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Boats stranded in mud as extremely low water levels expose the riverbed along the Danube in Serbia.

The Danube retreats from Serbia and Croatia, revealing shipwrecks and halting river commerce in weeks of historic drought

By Kevin Montien
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August 11, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Large herd of cattle grazing across an expansive agricultural pasture.

One-third of global farmland drives two-thirds of environmental degradation, forcing a reckoning on agricultural concentration and land use reform

By Kevin Montien
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August 10, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Workers build Camp Century beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Cold War.

An abandoned Cold War base buried under Greenland ice contains radioactive waste, diesel fuel, and wastewater that could eventually mobilize if climate warming accelerates

By Kevin Montien
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August 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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