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European eel Anguilla anguilla, a migratory fish now listed as critically endangered after decades of population decline.

The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban

By ECONEWS

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April 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM

Underwater view of NOAA diver near giant megacoral inside the Maug caldera in the Mariana Islands

It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefs

By Adrian Villellas

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March 30, 2026 at 11:44 AM

View of Earth from space illustrating rising global heat and oceans absorbing most of the planet’s excess energy

WMO climate report: Earth’s energy imbalance hit a record in 2025, with oceans absorbing most of the extra heat

By ECONEWS

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March 30, 2026 at 10:19 AM

Aerial view of giant circular seagrass rings in shallow water off Scotland, the mysterious underwater “donuts” baffling scientists

They are called “donuts” and look like fairy circles underwater, but science is baffled because no one yet knows what mechanism draws these perfect giant rings on the seabed off the coast of Scotland

By ECONEWS

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March 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Aerial view of a scientific drilling camp on the ice in West Antarctica where researchers extracted a record 228-meter rock core

A team of scientists has drilled a massive hole in West Antarctica and extracted 228 meters of rock—the deepest sample of its kind ever obtained

By ECONEWS

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March 29, 2026 at 4:51 AM

Hybrid pig and wild boar animals in Fukushima’s exclusion zone, where escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the disaster

Fukushima surprises us once again, 15 years after the accident, with a strange hybrid of escaped pigs and wild boars, right in the middle of the exclusion zone

By ECONEWS

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March 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Artist’s reconstruction of Doolysaurus, a small juvenile dinosaur standing in a forest

What looked like a rock with a few legs and vertebrae ended up becoming a scientific sensation: that’s how Doolysaurus, South Korea’s new dinosaur, came to light

By ECONEWS

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March 27, 2026 at 9:22 AM

Reconstruction of Alnashetri, a small dinosaur from Patagonia that is key to understanding alvarezsaurs

It was the size of a crow and weighed less than 2.2 pounds; it lived 90 million years ago, and its nearly intact skeleton could finally resolve one of the most contentious debates in paleontolog

By ECONEWS

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March 26, 2026 at 5:24 AM

View of Earth showing a green wave moving northeast to illustrate global changes in vegetation

Earth’s “green wave” is changing course, and scientists are already observing a global shift toward the northeast that could accelerate over the course of this century

By ECONEWS

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March 25, 2026 at 3:44 PM

Map of Doggerland between Britain and mainland Europe with a highlighted outline and arrow

Scientists have found ancient DNA in 252 samples taken from the seafloor and have discovered that, 16,000 years ago, a lush and vibrant land existed beneath the North Sea

By ECONEWS

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March 24, 2026 at 12:09 PM

Large net lifting invasive Asian carp from the Kansas River during a fish removal operation aimed at reducing the spread of the species

What began as an ecological solution in the 1970s turned into a massive invasion that forced the removal of tens of thousands of pounds of fish

By ECONEWS

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March 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Ocean sunfish floating near the surface of the sea

What seemed like a routine walk along the coast of Ravenna ended with the discovery of a giant sunfish, 8.2 feet long and weighing 882 pounds, that washed up dead on a beach in Italy; its mysterious death has baffled scientists in the Adriatic

By ECONEWS

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March 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM

Herd of European bison standing in a grassy field in Romania, illustrating the rewilding project linked to rising plant biomass

Bison are released in Romania, with results that surprise even zoologists, as the plant biomass in the area increases by 30%

By ECONEWS

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March 23, 2026 at 10:45 AM

Aerial view of La Serena reservoir and dam in Spain, where floodgates were opened during a rare high-water event

La Serena, Spain’s largest reservoir, opens its floodgates after weeks of storms, a rare event in its 35 years

By ECONEWS

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March 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Satellite map showing sulfur dioxide emissions from Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano spreading across the Arabian Sea

After 12,000 years of silence, a volcano in Ethiopia has erupted again, reminding us that an inactive volcano is never truly extinct

By ECONEWS

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March 22, 2026 at 9:17 AM

Map of the northeastern United States Atlantic coast showing offshore areas where a freshwater aquifer was discovered beneath the seabed

Fresh water under the Atlantic: drilling off Massachusetts confirms an aquifer that could supply a city like New York for 800 years

By ECONEWS

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March 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Artist’s reconstruction of Tanyka amnicola, a 275-million-year-old herbivore from Brazil with an unusual jaw and sideways teeth

A 275-million-year-old herbivore with a crooked jaw and “sideways” teeth has been found in Brazil and dubbed a living fossil

By ECONEWS

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March 21, 2026 at 7:09 AM

Aerial view of cracked dry ground beside dense green vegetation near China’s Taklamakan Desert restoration zone

China planted more than 66 billion trees to combat desertification, and now the success of its megaproject in the Taklamakan Desert is creating an unexpected problem

By Adrian Villellas

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March 21, 2026 at 4:51 AM

Red boat moving through icy Greenland waters near large ice formations, illustrating the coastal regions affected by ice loss and sea-level change.

The strange “Greenland effect” now has figures and defies intuition: the more ice the island loses, the more sea levels along its coastline can drop due to a truly brutal double geological and gravitational mechanism

By ECONEWS

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March 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Satellite view of storm system over Spain showing heavy rainfall and flooding across the Iberian Peninsula

ESA analyzes the storm system battering Spain from space and reveals an atmospheric pattern that could recur more frequently

By ECONEWS

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March 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM

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Environment

The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban

It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefs

WMO climate report: Earth’s energy imbalance hit a record in 2025, with oceans absorbing most of the extra heat

They are called “donuts” and look like fairy circles underwater, but science is baffled because no one yet knows what mechanism draws these perfect giant rings on the seabed off the coast of Scotland

A team of scientists has drilled a massive hole in West Antarctica and extracted 228 meters of rock—the deepest sample of its kind ever obtained

Fukushima surprises us once again, 15 years after the accident, with a strange hybrid of escaped pigs and wild boars, right in the middle of the exclusion zone

What looked like a rock with a few legs and vertebrae ended up becoming a scientific sensation: that’s how Doolysaurus, South Korea’s new dinosaur, came to light

It was the size of a crow and weighed less than 2.2 pounds; it lived 90 million years ago, and its nearly intact skeleton could finally resolve one of the most contentious debates in paleontolog

Earth’s “green wave” is changing course, and scientists are already observing a global shift toward the northeast that could accelerate over the course of this century

Scientists have found ancient DNA in 252 samples taken from the seafloor and have discovered that, 16,000 years ago, a lush and vibrant land existed beneath the North Sea

What began as an ecological solution in the 1970s turned into a massive invasion that forced the removal of tens of thousands of pounds of fish

What seemed like a routine walk along the coast of Ravenna ended with the discovery of a giant sunfish, 8.2 feet long and weighing 882 pounds, that washed up dead on a beach in Italy; its mysterious death has baffled scientists in the Adriatic

Bison are released in Romania, with results that surprise even zoologists, as the plant biomass in the area increases by 30%

La Serena, Spain’s largest reservoir, opens its floodgates after weeks of storms, a rare event in its 35 years

After 12,000 years of silence, a volcano in Ethiopia has erupted again, reminding us that an inactive volcano is never truly extinct

Fresh water under the Atlantic: drilling off Massachusetts confirms an aquifer that could supply a city like New York for 800 years

A 275-million-year-old herbivore with a crooked jaw and “sideways” teeth has been found in Brazil and dubbed a living fossil

China planted more than 66 billion trees to combat desertification, and now the success of its megaproject in the Taklamakan Desert is creating an unexpected problem

The strange “Greenland effect” now has figures and defies intuition: the more ice the island loses, the more sea levels along its coastline can drop due to a truly brutal double geological and gravitational mechanism

ESA analyzes the storm system battering Spain from space and reveals an atmospheric pattern that could recur more frequently

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

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

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