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NOAA map showing winter storm warnings across the eastern United States amid extreme cold and snowfall risk

NOAA warns of another winter storm for the eastern US after a historic snowfall left more than 800,000 without power

By ECONEWS

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January 27, 2026 at 4:43 AM

Snow-covered waterfront statues in Maryland as forecasters monitor a coastal system that could bring weekend snow

National Weather Service monitors a possible coastal storm for Maryland this weekend, though models now push it out to sea

By ECONEWS

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January 27, 2026 at 4:14 AM

Ship rat on a mossy log in New Zealand forest habitat, one of the invasive predators targeted by Predator Free 2050.

New Zealand wants to do what almost no one else dares to do: eradicate rats, mustelids, possums, and now feral cats from the ENTIRE country by 2050

By ECONEWS

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January 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A black bear emerges from the crawl space beneath a home in Altadena after wildlife volunteers carried out a humane eviction.

He lived for over a month with a 250-kilogram bear under his house, and what happened next highlights a problem that goes far beyond a viral anecdote

By Adrian Villellas

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January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Rare night parrot in Australia detected by acoustic recorders in desert habitat during conservation fieldwork.

Australia’s “ghost bird” has reappeared. For decades it was almost a myth, and now there is acoustic evidence to prove it

By ECONEWS

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January 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Great spotted kiwi roroa chick held gently in hands as conservation groups brace for a beech mast that could boost rats and stoats.

A record beech seed year in New Zealand could trigger a rat and stoat plague that threatens the great spotted kiwi

By Adrian Villellas

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January 24, 2026 at 10:15 AM

European wildcat moving through woodland vegetation, as conservation groups explore bringing the species back to England.

England could once again have its wild cat, a species that has been absent for more than a century

By ECONEWS

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January 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM

$Deep-sea “yellow brick road” pattern of fractured volcanic rock on the seafloor, with small sea life visible around the cracked slabs.$

A camera more than a kilometer below the Pacific Ocean found a “yellow brick road” and leaves an uncomfortable question about our seas

By ECONEWS

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January 23, 2026 at 5:54 AM

Autonomous mining trucks hauling coal at a large open pit mine in Xinjiang, China

More than 200 unmanned trucks discovered secretly excavating one of the world’s largest outdoor treasures: equivalent to more than 10,000 soccer fields

By ECONEWS

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January 23, 2026 at 5:35 AM

Aerial view of the Finke River (Larapinta) winding through a dry landscape in central Australia, with green reeds along the water.

It is between 300 and 400 million years old, flows through mountains as if they did not exist, and has survived mass extinctions: now, the oldest river on the planet faces its most modern threat

By ECONEWS

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January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM

$Satellite image of iceberg A-23A in the South Atlantic showing major fractures and meltwater ponds as it breaks apart.$

Photos taken from space show an iceberg “boiling” from within: this is the silent collapse of A-23A in the South Atlantic

By Adrian Villellas

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January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM

Feral brumby horses grazing in Kosciuszko National Park after population cuts in Australia’s Snowy Mountains

Australia did the unthinkable in Kosciuszko: in just 12 months, it reduced the number of wild horses from 17,000 to 3,000… and the park is already changing color (literally)

By Adrian Villellas

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January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Researcher uses a laptop in a grassy field while a utility vehicle and equipment sit in the background

Beneath the lawns in your neighborhood and cornfields lies a gigantic carbon “bank,” and a new study suggests that in some soils, it is emptying ten times faster than previously assumed

By Adrian Villellas

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January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Workers in protective suits stand in a flooded facility, using tools to clean up standing water after a coastal flood or storm surge.

A national map identifies 5,500 “hot spots” along the US coastline, and the danger is not the water itself, but what the water can carry with it

By Adrian Villellas

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January 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A transit stop with a green sculptural structure and a modular terracotta cooling brick shown in an inset, designed to cool air during heatwaves.

The brick that promises to cool down a bus stop in the middle of a heatwave without plugs and with a trick so simple it’s surprising

By ECONEWS

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January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Two workers walk beside a massive pile of used tires repurposed for rubber-modified asphalt roads

Mountains of tires become “black gold” for roads: rubber-coated asphalt promises greater durability and less noise, but raises environmental concerns

By Adrian Villellas

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January 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM

Shallow woodland vernal pool with branches and leaf litter, fish-free water that supports frog eggs in spring

He dug a 60 cm “pond” in the garden, and within weeks, something unexpected happened: five groups of frog eggs appeared… and the yard went from being a useless lawn to an amphibian nursery

By Adrian Villellas

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January 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM

Aerial view of sand-filled artificial islands linked by a narrow causeway, built by dredging in the South China Sea.

China has managed to build entirely new islands from scratch by pumping sand from the seabed day after day for more than a decade

By Adrian Villellas

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January 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM

A towering ocean wave rises in the foreground with snow-covered mountains in the background, illustrating extreme wave energy near cold coasts.

Some of the highest tsunami waves ever recorded were caused by landslides, not earthquakes, a review of 317 events finds

By ECONEWS

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January 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Construction crews in hard hats stand inside a large, concrete lined tunnel, a visual of Europe’s hidden underground routes.

Switzerland has excavated a “second country” beneath the Alps: more than 1,400 tunnels and about 1,243 miles beneath the rock to change the climate… without almost anyone noticing when traveling

By Adrian Villellas

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January 17, 2026 at 7:26 AM

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Environment

NOAA warns of another winter storm for the eastern US after a historic snowfall left more than 800,000 without power

National Weather Service monitors a possible coastal storm for Maryland this weekend, though models now push it out to sea

New Zealand wants to do what almost no one else dares to do: eradicate rats, mustelids, possums, and now feral cats from the ENTIRE country by 2050

He lived for over a month with a 250-kilogram bear under his house, and what happened next highlights a problem that goes far beyond a viral anecdote

Australia’s “ghost bird” has reappeared. For decades it was almost a myth, and now there is acoustic evidence to prove it

A record beech seed year in New Zealand could trigger a rat and stoat plague that threatens the great spotted kiwi

England could once again have its wild cat, a species that has been absent for more than a century

A camera more than a kilometer below the Pacific Ocean found a “yellow brick road” and leaves an uncomfortable question about our seas

More than 200 unmanned trucks discovered secretly excavating one of the world’s largest outdoor treasures: equivalent to more than 10,000 soccer fields

It is between 300 and 400 million years old, flows through mountains as if they did not exist, and has survived mass extinctions: now, the oldest river on the planet faces its most modern threat

Photos taken from space show an iceberg “boiling” from within: this is the silent collapse of A-23A in the South Atlantic

Australia did the unthinkable in Kosciuszko: in just 12 months, it reduced the number of wild horses from 17,000 to 3,000… and the park is already changing color (literally)

Beneath the lawns in your neighborhood and cornfields lies a gigantic carbon “bank,” and a new study suggests that in some soils, it is emptying ten times faster than previously assumed

A national map identifies 5,500 “hot spots” along the US coastline, and the danger is not the water itself, but what the water can carry with it

The brick that promises to cool down a bus stop in the middle of a heatwave without plugs and with a trick so simple it’s surprising

Mountains of tires become “black gold” for roads: rubber-coated asphalt promises greater durability and less noise, but raises environmental concerns

He dug a 60 cm “pond” in the garden, and within weeks, something unexpected happened: five groups of frog eggs appeared… and the yard went from being a useless lawn to an amphibian nursery

China has managed to build entirely new islands from scratch by pumping sand from the seabed day after day for more than a decade

Some of the highest tsunami waves ever recorded were caused by landslides, not earthquakes, a review of 317 events finds

Switzerland has excavated a “second country” beneath the Alps: more than 1,400 tunnels and about 1,243 miles beneath the rock to change the climate… without almost anyone noticing when traveling

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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