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Researcher standing in a shallow Mediterranean temporary pond in São Marcos da Ataboeira, Castro Verde, Portugal after heavy rain

They look like simple puddles of water, but every time it rains, they activate a prehistoric ecosystem whose lineage began more than 100 million years ago and which the European Union considers a priority

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February 26, 2026 at 7:28 AM

Deep sea image of thousands of pearl octopuses gathered at a hydrothermal nursery site near Davidson Seamount.

At a depth of 3.2 km and next to a volcano, they have recorded the largest octopus nursery on the planet, the size of 233 soccer fields and full of incubating mothers

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February 26, 2026 at 5:38 AM

Collage showing plastic pollution in the ocean, including a sea turtle entangled in fishing net and hermit crabs using plastic as shelter

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is becoming a floating continent populated by marine creatures

By Adrian Villellas

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February 25, 2026 at 2:30 PM

Cargo ship facing a massive 35-meter rogue wave in the Pacific as satellites monitor extreme sea conditions

Satellites detect megawaves up to 35 meters high in the Pacific, and the data is concerning because they appear even without “super hurricanes” involved

By Adrian Villellas

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February 25, 2026 at 5:57 AM

Highly contaminated water inside the torus room at Fukushima Daiichi where active marine bacteria were detected.

Fifteen years after the 2011 disaster, Fukushima continues to deliver strange surprises. Japan has found active bacteria in highly radioactive water, and what is most disturbing is that they appear “normal,” as if nothing had happened

By Kevin Montien

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February 24, 2026 at 8:38 AM

566-year-old coolabah “matriarch” tree in the Gwydir Wetlands, NSW, studied for five centuries of climate and flood history

A 566-year-old “matriarch” tree still stands in the Gwydir wetlands, and scientists say its trunk contains a climate record spanning five centuries

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February 24, 2026 at 6:38 AM

Seychelles sea coconut (coco de mer) seed on a beach, the world’s largest seed at up to 66 pounds and nearly 20 inches wide

Weighing up to 66 pounds and measuring nearly 20 inches, the Seychelles sea coconut is the largest seed on the planet

By Kevin Montien

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February 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM

Scientist releases biological control weevils onto invasive floating pennywort in a UK river

The war against invasive plants that devour rivers and fields enters creative mode: British scientists are releasing living allies that no one would have imagined in a modern scientific plan

By Sonia Ramírez

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February 23, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Close-up of a wild boar linked to Fukushima’s post-disaster genetic experiment in abandoned farmlands

Fifteen years after the March 11, 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, scientists discover that wild boars were the subject of an unexpected genetic experiment

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February 23, 2026 at 12:18 PM

Joshua trees blooming in the California desert in October 2025, months earlier than their usual flowering season.

Something is not right in the California desert: Joshua trees began to bloom in October 2025 (yes, October), and now scientists are trying to figure out what “woke them up” months earlier than usual

By Adrian Villellas

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February 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Four North American river otters swimming in a spring-fed lake in the Texas Hill Country near Waco

Goodbye to the myth that otters do not live in central Texas: a real estate agent discovers four swimming freely in a Hill Country lake

By Adrian Villellas

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February 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Dwarf plum tree growing in a small garden, known for sweet summer fruit and non-invasive roots

This tree bears sweet fruit in summer, does not break the soil with its roots, and is drought-resistant even when planted in a small garden

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February 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Deep Arctic permafrost inside Alaska’s Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility where Ice Age microbes were revived in lab experiments

Microbes frozen since the Ice Age wake up and start devouring carbon in Alaska laboratories

By Sonia Ramírez

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February 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Damian Gordon collecting cans and bottles through Australia’s Return and Earn program to fund his first home deposit

For seven years, he collected more than 450,000 cans and bottles without knowing that this gesture would end up becoming the down payment on his first home

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February 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Remains of a 17th-century blubber oven at Smeerenburg with glacier and Arctic mountains in Svalbard.

They spent the deadliest winter of the 17th century in a makeshift cabin eating whale blubber, not knowing if anyone would ever come back to rescue them

By Sonia Ramírez

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February 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Dense clusters of invasive quagga mussels cling to rocks underwater, a species newly detected in Lower Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.

For the first time, an invasive species capable of destroying freshwater ecosystems in just a few months has been detected in Northern Ireland, and no one knows how to stop it

By Kevin Montien

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February 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Bald eagle overlooking a five acre farm lake that evolved into a diverse wildlife sanctuary.

He created a lake to raise fish and installed cameras to monitor them, but ended up attracting eagles, deer, and owls to one of the continent’s most unexpected wildlife sanctuaries

By Adrian Villellas

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February 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Prehistoric animal paintings inside Lascaux Cave discovered in 1940 near Montignac, France.

In 1940, a boy chased his dog through a hole in a tree and ended up finding a secret cave with more than 600 human paintings dating back 17,000 years that no one had ever seen before

By Sonia Ramírez

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February 15, 2026 at 1:30 AM

Paper parachutes with dead mice baits laced with paracetamol are lined up for an aerial drop to target brown tree snakes in Guam.

Alert in the forests: the unusual US plan to release 2,000 mice with paracetamol to curb a deadly plague

By Kevin Montien

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February 13, 2026 at 8:15 AM

UN flag waving as WMO warns 2025 could be the second or third hottest year on record

2025 is expected to be the second or third hottest year on record, warns the UN

By Adrian Villellas

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February 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM

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Todd Stevens and Xavier Duffy examining artifacts recovered from the 1680 Phoenix shipwreck near the Isles of Scilly.

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