Environment

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

By ECONEWS
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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

By ECONEWS
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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
Close-up of stingless guard bees at the entrance of their nest in Kerala, India

He is only 14 years old, used a 10-year-old camera, and won the world’s most important macro photography contest with a photo of bees in India

By ECONEWS
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February 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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

By ECONEWS
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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

By ECONEWS
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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
Stingless bee species in the Peruvian Amazon now recognized as legal subjects with environmental rights

For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model of coexistence between nature and the law

By Sonia Ramírez
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February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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
Chestnut mining bee (Andrena rehni) held between a biologist’s berry-stained fingers in Syracuse, New York.

A biologist gets her fingers stained with berry juice… and accidentally discovers a species of bee that was believed to have been extinct in the region since 1904

By Kevin Montien
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February 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Fernandina Island giant tortoise rediscovered alive in the Galápagos after being declared extinct

A giant tortoise, extinct for over a century, has reappeared alive after several failed expeditions, reviving a historic plan to save the species, a symbol of evolution

By ECONEWS
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February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Glowing lava flows into the ocean during an ocean island eruption, illustrating how deep mantle processes can fuel volcanism and release CO2.

Your continent could be feeding a volcano in the middle of the ocean… and you didn’t even know it

By Kevin Montien
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February 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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