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Yaguara the jaguar wearing a tracking collar as she leaves her transport crate in Bolivia

Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle

By ECONEWS

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July 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Diego Saldanha removing plastic waste from floating ecobarrier in Brazil’s Atuba River

For years, he watched as bottles, furniture, and plastic floated past the back of his house, as if the river were a floating landfill, until this Brazilian father built a homemade barrier that has already removed more than 40 metric tons of trash

By ECONEWS

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July 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Artificial water canal in Ceará, Brazil, part of a large-scale drought mitigation project

Brazil is nearing completion of an “artificial river” nearly 145 kilometers long in Ceará, a large-scale project that is already 92% complete and promises to bring water to communities where drought has been a constant for generations

By ECONEWS

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July 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Female Edwards's pheasant born at Bioparc Fuengirola before joining an international conservation program to restore the species in Vietnam.

A pheasant born in Málaga has just traveled thousands of kilometers to Vietnam in an effort to restore a species that has not been reliably sighted in its forests since 2000

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM

European eel in shallow freshwater river with low water levels during summer drought.

It isn’t the Iberian lynx or the polar bear closest to extinction in Spain, but a fish you can still legally catch as summer dries its rivers to stagnant pools

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Scattered invasive pine trees spreading across a dry hillside in New Zealand.

What appeared to be a simple tree growing on a hillside can turn into a dense stand of invasive pine trees capable of depleting watersheds, displacing native plants, and altering an entire landscape

By ECONEWS

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July 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Aerial view of coastal flooding with seawater covering roads and land due to rising sea levels.

Sea levels are not rising solely because Greenland and Antarctica are melting, but because the ocean is expanding from within, and that invisible factor alone accounts for 43% of the rise recorded since 1960

By ECONEWS

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July 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Chinantec Indigenous women monitoring wildlife in tropical forest as part of conservation programs in Oaxaca.

In Oaxaca, some women walk up to 10 hours through the jungle to check camera traps that have captured images of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and 24 other species of mammals

By ECONEWS

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July 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Fisherman holding toxic invasive pufferfish caught in Mediterranean waters Greece

For years, fishermen had watched this strange fish destroy their nets; now Greece has decided to pay for each one caught, in an effort to curb its spread

By Adrian Villellas

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July 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM

People swimming in clear water at Flamengo Beach in Rio de Janeiro during early morning

Río Beach, whose recovery seemed impossible for years, now attracts more than 300 early-morning swimmers and hosts open-water swimming schools in a spot that almost no one dared to approach before

By ECONEWS

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July 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Dense Norway spruce forest in the Italian Alps with uniform canopy and limited plant diversity on the forest floor

The Italian forest, which appeared healthy from a distance, concealed ecological degradation dating back nearly 100 years, and scientists discovered that its fir trees harbored 50.3% less plant diversity than native forests

By ECONEWS

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July 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Field of polymetallic nodules scattered across the deep Pacific Ocean floor in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Nearly 6 kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and Mexico, there are dark rocks the size of a potato that took millions of years to form and could now spark a global race for cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese

By ECONEWS

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July 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Aerial view of a circular hyperadobe earth home under construction in a desert landscape

It all started with an old 1972 trailer; now, a family is building a huge earthen house in the middle of the desert, powered by solar energy and rainwater, without relying on the power grid

By ECONEWS

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July 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Close-up of a koala face showing detailed features in a wild Australian population

In the 1920s, perhaps only two or three koalas were brought to French Island to avert a catastrophe, and a century later, their DNA has just revealed a story far stranger than a simple genetic curse

By Adrian Villellas

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July 10, 2026 at 6:45 AM

Male seahorse representing the extraordinary parenting behaviors found in the animal kingdom, including male pregnancy and parental care.

A seahorse that gets pregnant, a fish that hides its young in its mouth, and a fox that feeds its entire family: the surprising list of nature’s most extraordinary parents

By ECONEWS

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July 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM

South African authorities inspect live scorpions seized from a suitcase at Cape Town International Airport during a wildlife trafficking investigation.

It all started with a seemingly ordinary suitcase at the Cape Town airport, until the police found 150 live scorpions hidden among the clothes

By Adrian Villellas

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July 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Hooded vulture near N'Djamena, Chad, where researchers documented declining populations linked to poisoning and illegal wildlife trade.

A man offered to catch vultures using a poisoned donkey, and that scene perfectly symbolized the crisis that scientists are seeing unfold in the area around N’Djamena

By ECONEWS

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July 9, 2026 at 4:30 AM

Ocean waves under sunlight illustrating how seas absorb heat and carbon emissions

For decades, the ocean has been the great silent hero of the climate, absorbing nearly 30% of human-generated CO₂ and most of the heat, but at the 2026 Bonn conference, it became clear that this “blue defense” is already taking its toll

By Adrian Villellas

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July 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM

West African slender-snouted crocodile resting on a tree trunk above a forest river

One of Africa’s rarest crocodiles survives in the murky rivers of Ivory Coast, and, according to estimates by conservation experts, fewer than 500 adult specimens remain in the wild

By Adrian Villellas

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July 7, 2026 at 10:26 AM

A digital illustration of the carbon removal landscape, showing a balance between reforestation, direct air capture technology, and soil sequestration.

The fight against climate change is entering a challenging phase: it is no longer enough to simply reduce pollution, and scientists are talking about removing up to 9,700 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2050

By ECONEWS

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July 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM

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Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle

For years, he watched as bottles, furniture, and plastic floated past the back of his house, as if the river were a floating landfill, until this Brazilian father built a homemade barrier that has already removed more than 40 metric tons of trash

Brazil is nearing completion of an “artificial river” nearly 145 kilometers long in Ceará, a large-scale project that is already 92% complete and promises to bring water to communities where drought has been a constant for generations

A pheasant born in Málaga has just traveled thousands of kilometers to Vietnam in an effort to restore a species that has not been reliably sighted in its forests since 2000

It isn’t the Iberian lynx or the polar bear closest to extinction in Spain, but a fish you can still legally catch as summer dries its rivers to stagnant pools

What appeared to be a simple tree growing on a hillside can turn into a dense stand of invasive pine trees capable of depleting watersheds, displacing native plants, and altering an entire landscape

Sea levels are not rising solely because Greenland and Antarctica are melting, but because the ocean is expanding from within, and that invisible factor alone accounts for 43% of the rise recorded since 1960

In Oaxaca, some women walk up to 10 hours through the jungle to check camera traps that have captured images of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and 24 other species of mammals

For years, fishermen had watched this strange fish destroy their nets; now Greece has decided to pay for each one caught, in an effort to curb its spread

Río Beach, whose recovery seemed impossible for years, now attracts more than 300 early-morning swimmers and hosts open-water swimming schools in a spot that almost no one dared to approach before

The Italian forest, which appeared healthy from a distance, concealed ecological degradation dating back nearly 100 years, and scientists discovered that its fir trees harbored 50.3% less plant diversity than native forests

Nearly 6 kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and Mexico, there are dark rocks the size of a potato that took millions of years to form and could now spark a global race for cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese

It all started with an old 1972 trailer; now, a family is building a huge earthen house in the middle of the desert, powered by solar energy and rainwater, without relying on the power grid

In the 1920s, perhaps only two or three koalas were brought to French Island to avert a catastrophe, and a century later, their DNA has just revealed a story far stranger than a simple genetic curse

A seahorse that gets pregnant, a fish that hides its young in its mouth, and a fox that feeds its entire family: the surprising list of nature’s most extraordinary parents

It all started with a seemingly ordinary suitcase at the Cape Town airport, until the police found 150 live scorpions hidden among the clothes

A man offered to catch vultures using a poisoned donkey, and that scene perfectly symbolized the crisis that scientists are seeing unfold in the area around N’Djamena

For decades, the ocean has been the great silent hero of the climate, absorbing nearly 30% of human-generated CO₂ and most of the heat, but at the 2026 Bonn conference, it became clear that this “blue defense” is already taking its toll

One of Africa’s rarest crocodiles survives in the murky rivers of Ivory Coast, and, according to estimates by conservation experts, fewer than 500 adult specimens remain in the wild

The fight against climate change is entering a challenging phase: it is no longer enough to simply reduce pollution, and scientists are talking about removing up to 9,700 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2050

Chemists are turning ammonia into pure hydrogen at 482°F, far cooler than standard cracking, and the trick is using electricity to pull the gas through a palladium membrane

Roman soldiers guarded a German forest fort for 150 years, and archaeologists digging just inches below the forest floor have found a temple of Mars and a pin hinting at who came after

A volunteer diver picking up trash at the bottom of a Wisconsin lake found a 1,000-year-old dugout canoe, and the Wisconsin Historical Society has decided the safest place for it is exactly where it lies

Czech cave explorers and a robot have measured the Hranice Abyss to 1,476 feet underwater, and a decade after it became the world’s deepest flooded cave, nobody knows where the bottom is

A Hawaiian tree snail vanished from the wild after Hawaii brought in a predator to fight a garden pest, and 33 years later it is back behind walls that keep its hunters out

A Swiss glacier has pulled back far enough to reveal a larch that stopped growing about 10,300 years ago, and its still-attached roots show the tree grew on ground the ice later buried

Chinstrap penguin droppings across Antarctica release an estimated 540,000 tons of methane a year, and the bare ground between the guano patches gives off almost nothing

Twenty family dogs listened to nonstop invented words while wearing electrodes, and scientists found that dog brains lock onto the same hidden detail of speech that human brains rely on from infancy

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