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China’s Fendouzhe crewed submersible is lowered into icy Arctic waters, equipped with cameras and sampling gear for deep-sea research.

China takes a manned submersible to the “forbidden ground” 5,277 meters below the Arctic, and what it records on the Gakkel Ridge could change maps and theories

By ECONEWS

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January 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Satellite view of a powerful Pacific storm aimed at the U.S. West Coast, with thick cloud bands signaling heavy mountain snow.

A winter storm warning forecasts up to 60 inches of snow in higher areas and widespread power outages

By ECONEWS

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January 16, 2026 at 5:55 AM

A large cylindrical naval nuclear reactor component is being lifted inside a shipyard work area during maintenance or removal.

The United States is considering an idea that was previously unthinkable: using old military nuclear reactors to power artificial intelligence data centers

By Adrian Villellas

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January 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Wide aerial view of a vast solar farm with thousands of blue panels arranged in rows across open grassland under a bright sky.

In the middle of the Tibetan desert, China’s largest solar park is doing something unexpected that goes far beyond producing electricity

By ECONEWS

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January 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Boater watches a large floating mat of brown sargassum at sea, with an inset close-up showing the seaweed that forms the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.

Something huge and brown is crossing the Atlantic from Africa to America, and satellites can no longer ignore it

By Adrian Villellas

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January 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM

The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

By ECONEWS

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January 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM

Global temperature anomaly map showing widespread warming that amplifies European heat-wave impacts in today’s climate.

It is not a prediction for 2100; it is a “rewind” of five actual heat waves, and the result in today’s climate is much worse than you remember

By Adrian Villellas

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January 7, 2026 at 9:03 AM

Mechanic holding gold bars discovered inside an old Iraqi Army Type 69 tank purchased online

A collector who bought an Iraqi Type 69 tank on eBay found five gold bars worth about 2.5 million euros inside

By ECONEWS

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January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM

An hourglass floating in front of Earth, symbolizing how climate change is affecting the planet’s rotation and global timekeeping.

Climate change is now tugging on the world’s clocks

By ECONEWS

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January 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM

Record 64.8-gram gold nugget found in England’s Shropshire Hills after a faulty metal detector prompted a backup.

Faulty metal detector leads to record gold nugget find in England’s Shropshire Hills

By Adrian Villellas

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January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM

Earth at night with city lights across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, seen from space.

Reflect Orbital, a California startup, plans 4,000 mirror satellites in space, and astronomers warn about light pollution

By Adrian Villellas

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January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM

Towering open-ocean wave with windblown spray, part of the North Pacific megastorm swell measured at up to 115 feet.

Satellites capture a mega-storm in the North Pacific that produced giant waves up to 115 feet high that traveled nearly 15,000 miles

By Adrian Villellas

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January 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM

Wolf supermoon behind a bare tree as meteor streaks cross the night sky during the Quadrantid shower

The Quadrantid meteor shower reaches its brief peak tonight, and the Wolf supermoon may make it difficult to catch

By Adrian Villellas

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January 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM

Large papery wasp nest with a round entrance hanging in a leafy tree.

The first heavy frost arrived, the garden fell silent, and then the big question arose: where do bees and wasps hide for months without freezing to death?

By ECONEWS

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January 4, 2026 at 9:24 AM

Deep-sea submersible shines a light on a coelacanth swimming above a rocky seafloor.

A mistake repeated since the 1800s hid a legendary predator in the cliffs of southwest England

By ECONEWS

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January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM

The ocean liner SS United States passes beneath a Delaware River bridge as it departs for conversion into a Gulf artificial reef.

The legendary SS United States sets sail for the last time, and its final destination is not a port, but the bottom of the ocean

By ECONEWS

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January 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM

Traffic on Interstate 25 near Monument, Colorado, where the Greenland Wildlife Overpass helps elk and deer cross safely.

North America’s largest wildlife crossing is now open, allowing deer and elk to cross a six-lane highway

By ECONEWS

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December 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM

A Greenland mega tsunami made the planet ring for days, and satellites finally proved why

By ECONEWS

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December 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM

COP30 Brazil leaders Ana Toni and André Corrêa do Lago over Amazon deforestation, urging action without full UN consensus.

Goodbye to total consensus: Brazil proposes moving forward with climate action without waiting for agreement from all 195 UN countries

By ECONEWS

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December 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM

Global warming leaves us without seasons: the first regions to go only from winter to summer

By ECONEWS

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April 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM

Environment

China takes a manned submersible to the “forbidden ground” 5,277 meters below the Arctic, and what it records on the Gakkel Ridge could change maps and theories

A winter storm warning forecasts up to 60 inches of snow in higher areas and widespread power outages

The United States is considering an idea that was previously unthinkable: using old military nuclear reactors to power artificial intelligence data centers

In the middle of the Tibetan desert, China’s largest solar park is doing something unexpected that goes far beyond producing electricity

Something huge and brown is crossing the Atlantic from Africa to America, and satellites can no longer ignore it

The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

It is not a prediction for 2100; it is a “rewind” of five actual heat waves, and the result in today’s climate is much worse than you remember

A collector who bought an Iraqi Type 69 tank on eBay found five gold bars worth about 2.5 million euros inside

Climate change is now tugging on the world’s clocks

Faulty metal detector leads to record gold nugget find in England’s Shropshire Hills

Reflect Orbital, a California startup, plans 4,000 mirror satellites in space, and astronomers warn about light pollution

Satellites capture a mega-storm in the North Pacific that produced giant waves up to 115 feet high that traveled nearly 15,000 miles

The Quadrantid meteor shower reaches its brief peak tonight, and the Wolf supermoon may make it difficult to catch

The first heavy frost arrived, the garden fell silent, and then the big question arose: where do bees and wasps hide for months without freezing to death?

A mistake repeated since the 1800s hid a legendary predator in the cliffs of southwest England

The legendary SS United States sets sail for the last time, and its final destination is not a port, but the bottom of the ocean

North America’s largest wildlife crossing is now open, allowing deer and elk to cross a six-lane highway

A Greenland mega tsunami made the planet ring for days, and satellites finally proved why

Goodbye to total consensus: Brazil proposes moving forward with climate action without waiting for agreement from all 195 UN countries

Global warming leaves us without seasons: the first regions to go only from winter to summer

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

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

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