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Offshore wind turbine with a damaged blade standing in calm ocean water off Nantucket

A wind turbine blade broke off Nantucket in 2024 and scattered fiberglass on the beaches, Vineyard Wind now alleges 66 of its 72 blades had bonding flaws, and two years later the federal investigation still has no end date

By Adrian Villellas
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September 19, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Prairie rattlesnake coiled among grass, yellow flowers and white rocks

Researchers tracking prairie rattlesnakes in Wyoming kept finding “piles” of snakes shedding their skin together, a behavior never documented before in this species

By ECONEWS
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September 19, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Large Atlantic bluefin tuna swimming in blue open ocean water

An Atlantic bluefin tuna starts life no bigger than an eyelash, but the species holds a 1,496-pound world record, and scientists can read its age from tiny rings inside its head

By Adrian Villellas
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September 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Two steelhead swimming close to the gravel bed of a clear river

After two years in the Pacific, hundreds of steelhead swam back to Oregon’s Deschutes River on a 600-mile round trip, helping push the number of adults moved above Round Butte Dam past 950 in a record season

By Adrian Villellas
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September 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Pile of old mobile phones and smartphones, including classic keypad models

A metric ton of old mobile phones can hold 100 times more gold than a metric ton of gold ore, yet only 22.3% of the world’s electronic waste is formally collected and recycled

By Adrian Villellas
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September 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Three archive photos showing eroded bare hills in Pohang, South Korea, gradually covered by vegetation after reforestation

South Korea planted more than 10 billion trees after the Korean War, and by 2020 its forests held 29 times more wood per hectare than in 1953, but the real secret was checking which seedlings survived

By ECONEWS
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September 18, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle Pancake crawling on the sand at Coney Island before its release

An 11-pound endangered sea turtle named Pancake was found cold-stunned on a Cape Cod beach, spent seven months eating shrimp and clams in rehab, and returned to the Atlantic at Coney Island carrying a satellite tag

By ECONEWS
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September 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Hand lifting a piece of artificial turf during heavy rain, with water running off the plastic lawn

Natural grass acts like a “sponge,” while artificial turf can repel up to 58% of the water

By ECONEWS
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September 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Solitary wasp among nesting tubes in a bee hotel.

Bee hotels were supposed to help pollinators, but a Toronto experiment found wasps were checking in first

By Kevin Montien
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September 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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
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
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 Sonia Ramírez
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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
Beekeeper in a safety vest lifting two frames covered in honeybees beside a hive, with solar panels behind

Black Bear Solar added 180,000 honeybees in Virginia, but the fence protects the hives, not the other way around

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Sea lion eating a salmon in the water below Bonneville Dam.

Sea lions learned to wait below Bonneville Dam, and the fish ladder meant to help salmon became a dinner bell

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Scientist in a safety vest surveying pollinators among yellow wildflowers planted beneath solar panels

Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Yellow tree-like coral colonies growing on a rocky outcrop beside pink corals in the deep sea

A golden coral forest off Costa Rica forced scientists to add an entirely new branch to the tree of life

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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 Kevin Montien
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September 11, 2026 at 6:26 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
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
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