Economy

Rare-earth mining exploration site in Campo de Montiel, Spain, where a major monazite deposit could supply European industry.

Neither the U.S. nor Iran: Spain discovers a rare-earth gold mine capable of meeting 33% of Europe’s needs and revolutionizes the geopolitical landscape of the green transition

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Rendering of Freedom Ship, a proposed floating city vessel designed to carry 80,000 people with schools and a hospital

The world’s largest floating city is back in action: 80,000 residents, a stadium, schools and even eight helipads

By Adrian Villellas
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June 25, 2026 at 4:58 AM
A series of beaver-built dams in a Swiss stream corridor, showing how these structures create wetlands and trap sediments.

European beavers turn out to be secret carbon hoarders, stashing 26 % more than any human climate model guessed

By ECONEWS
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June 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The Iconic Tower rising above the Central Business District in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, a massive urban development project in the desert.

Egypt’s dead-serious plan: build an entire desert city from scratch and crown it with a 1,312-foot skyscraper that nobody saw coming

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Jeddah Tower under construction in Saudi Arabia after surpassing 100 floors on its path to becoming the world's tallest building.

Construction of Jeddah Tower just reached the 100th floor, and the number that makes it feel unreal is the target, more than 3,280 feet tall with over 167 floors as Saudi Arabia aims for the world’s tallest building by 2028

By ECONEWS
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June 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
SpaceX Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, near the Lower Rio Grande Valley wildlife corridor along the US Mexico border.

Elon Musk admits that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem

By Adrian Villellas
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June 18, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Close-up of smooth, rounded desert sand grains compared to rough, angular construction sand used in concrete manufacturing.

Saudi Arabia imports sand even though it’s a desert country, but desert sand is too smooth and rounded to make strong concrete

By ECONEWS
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June 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
ExxonMobil office building facade showing company logo as firm shifts legal home to Texas

ExxonMobil is leaving New Jersey as its legal home after more than 140 years, and what matters isn’t the new address but what it signals about taxes, headquarters power, and corporate strategy

By ECONEWS
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June 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Myanmar officials examine a massive rough ruby discovered in Mogok, highlighting the scale of the 11,000-carat gemstone.

An 11,000-carat ruby find (about 4.85 pounds) reshapes mining in Myanmar, and the giant stone reopens the debate over value, traceability, and the real price of gemstones

By Sonia Ramírez
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June 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
A small Celtic gold coin found in soil during an archaeological discovery near the D35 highway in the Czech Republic.

What started as a routine highway survey near Hradec Králové turned into one of Bohemia’s biggest Celtic finds, a 62-acre settlement where archaeologists pulled up gold and silver coins, Baltic amber, and workshops that suggest a production center, not just a stopover

By Adrian Villellas
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June 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Aerial view of the Jijiaoshan mining area in Hunan Province, the site of a major lithium-bearing granite deposit discovery.

China discovers a mega-deposit of about 540 million U.S. tons of lithium ore, and the number reshuffles the battery and energy-transition board overnight

By Adrian Villellas
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June 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Excavator dumping a large pile of recycled oyster shells used for coastal restoration projects.

A marine scientist in Southern California has turned restaurant waste into coastal restoration by collecting more than 24,000 pounds of discarded oyster shells, curing them in the sun, and using them to rebuild reefs that protect shorelines and filter water

By ECONEWS
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June 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
California farmers preparing to remove clingstone peach trees following the permanent closure of the Del Monte cannery in Modesto.

Del Monte’s Chapter 11 collapse left a California peach farmer staring at ripping out 20 acres of 9-year-old Ross cling trees tied to $12,500-an-acre contracts, after a shuttered Modesto canning hub and only 24,000 of 74,000 tons finding processing capacity turned the rest into fruit that may rot or be destroyed

By ECONEWS
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May 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A close-up view of a tiny, reddish-orange kyawthuite crystal, the only confirmed natural specimen of this mineral species in existence.

The rarest mineral recognized by science weighs about 0.011 ounces, exists as a single known natural specimen, and its discovery exposes how fragile Earth’s catalog still is

By Adrian Villellas
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May 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Aerial view of the Port of Recife in Brazil, showing the urban harbor, navigation channel, and coastal breakwater.

The Port of Recife will spend about $19.7 million on dredging to handle ships up to 689 feet, and that quiet project decides which cities win or lose trade

By Adrian Villellas
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May 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Small tiny home with a front porch, representing compact permanent housing for veterans.

Plans are underway in Cincinnati to build a new “Veterans Village” featuring 14 tiny homes on church-owned land. Each unit, measuring 276 square feet, will include a porch, kitchen, dining area, and full bathroom, and will cost $70,000, allowing veterans to move out of their temporary housing

By ECONEWS
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May 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Construction site for an immersed tunnel beside a wide port channel, with concrete tunnel sections, cranes, boats, and city buildings in the background.

São Paulo stuns with a roughly $1.35 billion megaproject – Brazil’s first immersed tunnel will span 0.93 miles and force the city to reinvent underwater construction logistics

By Adrian Villellas
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May 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Prince William standing in front of the Nansledan housing development in Cornwall, part of the Duchy of Cornwall estate.

Prince William will sell one-fifth of the Duchy of Cornwall, and he says the profits will be funneled into housing and nature projects chosen for the biggest social and environmental impact

By Kevin Montien
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May 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Reporter standing near cattle on Kentucky farmland connected to a proposed data center project near Maysville.

A mother and daughter near Maysville turned down $26 million to sell farmland for a data center, and their blunt reason is that feeding the country matters more than a tech buyer paying roughly 10 times the land’s farm value

By Sonia Ramírez
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May 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Iron ore transport and export operations linked to Guinea’s Simandou mining project and Chinese steel supply

China receives the first shipment of 200,000 tons from Africa’s largest “hidden iron” deposit: the move smells like a geopolitical shift

By ECONEWS
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May 22, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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