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Aerial view of exposed sandstone shoreline and low water at Lake Powell near Bullfrog, Utah, in the Upper Colorado River Basin during the 2022 drought

Satellites tracked a loss of about 4.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the snow-fed Upper Colorado River Basin during the 2020-2022 drought, and that is nearly double what the drier Lower Basin lost

By ECONEWS
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October 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Mariana Di Pascuale in front of the earthen house she built in Los Hornillos, Traslasierra, with salvaged car windshields set as windows

A 38-year-old artist built an earthen house in Argentina’s Traslasierra Valley with about 12 car windshields given away in the town where she grew up, and from above its two hexagons form a heart

By Adrian Villellas
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October 23, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Multistory buildings on concrete pillars line a mountain river in Yanjin County, Yunnan, home of the so-called world’s narrowest city

In Yunnan’s Yanjin, the so-called world’s narrowest city squeezes homes into a river valley that narrows to about 98 feet, and the famous 400,000 population figure actually covers the whole county, not the town

By ECONEWS
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October 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Colorful beehives inside a wooden shelter enclosed by a metal mesh cage in the snow, one alternative to beehives behind electric fences in Slovakia

In Slovakia’s Liptov and Lower Orava regions, brown bears damaged 130 hives in 37 raids between 2020 and 2024, and more than two-thirds of those raids hit beehives behind electric fences

By Adrian Villellas
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October 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Balcony solar systems hanging from the railing of an apartment block in Leipzig, Germany

An estimated 4.2 million balcony solar systems are now plugged in at homes and apartments in Germany, and in Croatia the same small kit still needs a certified installer, design documents and paid metering

By ECONEWS
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October 23, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Chukotka sled dogs in harness resting on the beach at Lorino, a village on Russia's Chukchi Peninsula, the region where the ancient sled dogs in the study were found

Ancient sled dogs from sites up to 2,000 years old on Russia’s Chukotka coast had stubby legs like today’s teams, about 6 percent shorter than other canids, and a model explains the pulling advantage

By Adrian Villellas
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October 23, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Male American kestrel, the official city bird of Coppell, Texas, seen in profile

More than 750 nesting boxes for native birds have come from a Coppell, Texas, teenager who lost his pet cockatiel, he says, and his Backyard Bird Project has grown to chapters in 24 states and three countries

By ECONEWS
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October 23, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Cygnet Earthship in Tasmania with rammed earth walls, a long north-facing glass sunroom and a rock gabion wall below

Two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne built a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, with rammed earth walls, bottle bricks and no fireplace, and they say their heating bills are $0

By Adrian Villellas
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October 23, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Cellar spider on a glass shower wall in a bathroom, a common sight that does not mean your house is dirty

In 50 homes around Raleigh, North Carolina, researchers found spiders in every single house, and tidiness made no significant difference to the variety of bugs, so a spider does not mean your house is dirty

By ECONEWS
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October 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Deep-sea spaghetti worms: an orange Terebellosuctoria jimii worm outside its tube, with its pale feeding tentacles, collected near the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Scientists hauled deep-sea spaghetti worms with suction cups from about 2,200 feet down off Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and the orange animals turned out to be a genus new to science

By Adrian Villellas
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October 23, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica seen by Copernicus Sentinel-2 in February 2026, one of the fast-flowing glaciers behind polar ice loss

42 satellite surveys show 11.3 trillion metric tons of polar ice loss across Greenland and Antarctica since 1979, and 84 percent of it came from glaciers flowing faster into the ocean rather than surface melt

By ECONEWS
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October 23, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Brown bears and electric fences: a brown bear stands in a meadow in front of an electric fence

In Romania’s Brașov County, brown bears number about 1,329 by a national genetic estimate, the highest density of any county, and one bear relocated from Poiana Brașov was back within 3 days

By Adrian Villellas
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October 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Magellanic penguins from Mar del Plata standing together in their new enclosure at Bubalcó, Río Negro

More than 40 Magellanic penguins born in captivity arrived by court order from Mar del Plata at a river island in Argentina’s Río Negro province, and at first they had not explored even a third of their new home

By ECONEWS
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October 22, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Inexpensive blue pigment copper phthalocyanine on carbon converting CO2 into methane, with a chart of its 79.5% Faradaic efficiency

In Japan, researchers led by Tohoku University used an inexpensive blue pigment to turn carbon dioxide into methane with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, and methane selectivity stayed above 60% for about 80 hours

By Adrian Villellas
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October 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Lake Constance water level so low that a broad gravel bank lies exposed in front of the Liebesinsel in Radolfzell

At 8.2 feet on Oct. 13, the Lake Constance water level in Konstanz, Germany, fell below a 1947 record for the date, and it now sits 10 inches under last winter’s low

By ECONEWS
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October 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Combine harvester cutting wheat near Eldagsen, Germany, one of the breadbaskets hit hardest in a modeled AMOC collapse

A simulated AMOC collapse in an unreviewed preprint cut wheat, corn and rice harvests in Germany and Ukraine by roughly 16 to 19 percent, and cereal prices could climb up to 40 percent in the worst case

By Adrian Villellas
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October 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Landslide scar above Tracy Arm fjord and South Sawyer Glacier, Alaska, seen from a U.S. Geological Survey flight on August 13, 2025

A landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord sent a tsunami 1,578 feet up the opposite wall, and a Science study found small tremors striking every 30 to 60 seconds in the hours before the collapse

By Adrian Villellas
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October 22, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Village of Rășinari in Sibiu County, Romania, near the Valea Dobra magnesium deposit, with wooded hills behind

A company won a mining license for a magnesium deposit it estimates at more than 50 million metric tons near Rășinari, in Romania’s Sibiu County, and the EU gets 97 percent of its magnesium from China

By ECONEWS
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October 22, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Head table at the 28th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, where leap seconds were ended

Leap seconds will end on May 20, 2027, under a rule the General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted in Versailles, France, and a new study finds Earth’s solid surface turning slightly rounder as polar ground rises

By Adrian Villellas
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October 22, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Endangered northern quolls are spotted marsupials; here one stands on a rocky outcrop on Dambimangari Country, Western Australia

Two Perth scientists tested plastic pipes buried in mine waste rock as dens for endangered northern quolls, and the animals went in and out, with average highs of 92.5 degrees Fahrenheit, similar to natural dens

By ECONEWS
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October 22, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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