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Close-up of a crystallized dinosaur egg fossil from Qinglongshan in central China, part of a study dating the site to around 85 million years ago.

85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs are rewriting Earth’s climate history and shaking up paleontology

By Adrian Villellas

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April 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A side-by-side comparison of a standard coastal elevation map and an adjusted map showing significantly higher sea levels and flood risks.

An error in hundreds of sea level studies could change the map of coastal risks

By ECONEWS

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April 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Sunlight filters through dense tropical forest trees in Panama, where scientists studied how drought shifts root growth deeper underground

What a drought has done underground in Panama’s tropical forests is surprising scientists: the fine roots have shrunk by nearly 50 percent, and concerns are mounting over carbon

By Adrian Villellas

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April 22, 2026 at 11:47 AM

Surface fault rupture and ground damage from an earthquake in California showing lateral displacement

California may be overlooking a type of earthquake that is much more destructive than it appeared

By ECONEWS

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April 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Joro spider with yellow and black markings hanging in its web in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

A giant, invasive spider is already moving through one of the most famous parks in the United States

By ECONEWS

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April 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM

View of Earth from space used to illustrate satellite tracking of global vegetation and seasonal greening patterns

What satellites have observed about the spread of vegetation could change agriculture in several countries

By ECONEWS

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April 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Red streetlights illuminate a road and surrounding trees in Gladsaxe, Denmark, in a bat-friendly lighting project

Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats

By ECONEWS

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April 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Close-up of honey bees illustrating research on how bee gut DNA can reveal urban ecosystem health and biodiversity

Scientists are studying the digestive tracts of wild bees, and what they’re discovering is forcing us to rethink why some parks appear green but are far less beneficial than we thought

By ECONEWS

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April 21, 2026 at 3:17 AM

Two killer whales swim side by side at the ocean surface in a photo used to illustrate research on possible orca-on-orca predation

A colleague sent Olga a strange photo taken on a Russian beach, and now scientists believe they have discovered a macabre pattern among orcas: sometimes they hunt each other

By ECONEWS

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April 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Two Atlantic puffins standing on a grassy cliff in Iceland with wings spread

Farewell to the harbor lights: light pollution could wipe out 40% of the world’s puffin population

By ECONEWS

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April 20, 2026 at 4:39 AM

Workers operate industrial machinery processing banana pseudostems into fiber pulp for tissue paper production inside a large factory

The thousands of tons of banana pseudostems left rotting after each harvest are now being transformed into tissue paper and packaging materials, while a simple process using sodium hydroxide at 230°F is achieving pulp yields of up to 44 percent in April 2026 trials

By ECONEWS

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April 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM

Arctic landscape with snowy mountains reflected in calm water, illustrating the Barents Sea region where Atlantic water is pushing farther into the Arctic.

A change in the timing of storms, not stronger winds, explains the atlantification of the Barents Sea, a study finds

By ECONEWS

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April 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Pink fairy armadillo partially emerging from sandy soil in Mendoza reserve

The “pink fairy” has reappeared in a reserve in Mendoza, and its return confirms that an ecosystem that seemed silent still held an extraordinary surprise

By Adrian Villellas

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April 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM

European eels stranded in a drying riverbed near Valencia as drought leaves shallow, isolated pools

2,000 eels that had traveled 4,350 miles from the Sargasso Sea died at 98.6 °F… just 11 miles from Valencia because the river had turned into a puddle and no one lifted a finger

By ECONEWS

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April 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM

Wolf swimming across Lake Lucerne in Switzerland during tracked migration

A GPS-collared wolf swam about 1.5 km across Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, the first confirmed case

By ECONEWS

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April 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Close-up of mosquitoes feeding on human skin, illustrating why some people attract more bites than others

Mosquitoes are drawn by exhaled CO2 and clothing contrast, not “sweet blood”, a Georgia Tech and MIT study shows

By Adrian Villellas

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April 17, 2026 at 4:32 AM

Two tricahue parrots near a cactus, one perched and one landing in flight, a scene linked to the birds’ return to Río Clarillo National Park.

After a 15-year absence, nests of tricahue parrots have reappeared in Río Clarillo, and the discovery confirms that a return that seemed impossible is already underway

By ECONEWS

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April 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Still image of a sleeper shark swimming in deep Antarctic waters near the South Shetland Islands, captured by a baited seafloor camera.

For the first time in history, a shark has been filmed in Antarctic waters, and the scene raises a disturbing question about what is changing at the southernmost tip of the planet

By ECONEWS

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April 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Close-up of a jaguar resting with its head on its paw, an image tied to Bolivia’s plan to return rehabilitated jaguar Yaguara to the wild.

Bolivia prepares to release Yaguara, its first rehabilitated jaguar, into the wild

By Adrian Villellas

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April 16, 2026 at 12:34 PM

Floating Sargassum seaweed in the Sargasso Sea, surrounded by calm Atlantic waters shaped by ocean currents

There is a single sea on Earth that has no shores, and its strange boundary is not defined by land, but by the currents of the Atlantic

By ECONEWS

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April 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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Environment

85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs are rewriting Earth’s climate history and shaking up paleontology

An error in hundreds of sea level studies could change the map of coastal risks

What a drought has done underground in Panama’s tropical forests is surprising scientists: the fine roots have shrunk by nearly 50 percent, and concerns are mounting over carbon

California may be overlooking a type of earthquake that is much more destructive than it appeared

A giant, invasive spider is already moving through one of the most famous parks in the United States

What satellites have observed about the spread of vegetation could change agriculture in several countries

Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats

Scientists are studying the digestive tracts of wild bees, and what they’re discovering is forcing us to rethink why some parks appear green but are far less beneficial than we thought

A colleague sent Olga a strange photo taken on a Russian beach, and now scientists believe they have discovered a macabre pattern among orcas: sometimes they hunt each other

Farewell to the harbor lights: light pollution could wipe out 40% of the world’s puffin population

The thousands of tons of banana pseudostems left rotting after each harvest are now being transformed into tissue paper and packaging materials, while a simple process using sodium hydroxide at 230°F is achieving pulp yields of up to 44 percent in April 2026 trials

A change in the timing of storms, not stronger winds, explains the atlantification of the Barents Sea, a study finds

The “pink fairy” has reappeared in a reserve in Mendoza, and its return confirms that an ecosystem that seemed silent still held an extraordinary surprise

2,000 eels that had traveled 4,350 miles from the Sargasso Sea died at 98.6 °F… just 11 miles from Valencia because the river had turned into a puddle and no one lifted a finger

A GPS-collared wolf swam about 1.5 km across Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, the first confirmed case

Mosquitoes are drawn by exhaled CO2 and clothing contrast, not “sweet blood”, a Georgia Tech and MIT study shows

After a 15-year absence, nests of tricahue parrots have reappeared in Río Clarillo, and the discovery confirms that a return that seemed impossible is already underway

For the first time in history, a shark has been filmed in Antarctic waters, and the scene raises a disturbing question about what is changing at the southernmost tip of the planet

Bolivia prepares to release Yaguara, its first rehabilitated jaguar, into the wild

There is a single sea on Earth that has no shores, and its strange boundary is not defined by land, but by the currents of the Atlantic

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

Norway’s largest Viking coin hoard has grown to 5,550 coins since two metal detectorists found it in a field, and an archaeologist cataloging them spotted one struck for a king who became a saint

Turkey has unearthed a clay fragment of the oldest known peace treaty, sealed about 3,300 years ago, and its broken lines show what two kings promised people who fled their lands

A 194-year-old giant tortoise named Jonathan has some gene switches as orderly as those of tortoises a fraction of his age, and scientists think part of his secret lies in how his cells make energy

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