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Semi-pelagic trawl doors being tested off Spain to reduce seabed contact during commercial fishing.

Scientists are testing “flying doors” that keep trawls above the seabed, and the result could change how fishing scars the ocean floor 

July 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A 3D-printed flow battery cell connected to laboratory testing equipment at Queen's University Belfast.

A $100 battery printed in Belfast could replace expensive lab equipment, and the breakthrough may change how scientists test renewable energy storage

July 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Louisiana National Guard helicopter carrying recycled Christmas trees for coastal marsh restoration near New Orleans

New Orleans is collecting thousands of used Christmas trees and dropping them from helicopters to slow the loss of land, which has already exceeded 5,000 square kilometers

July 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A brown bear catches a salmon in an Alaska stream, a key process that helps move marine nutrients into surrounding forests.

Scientists played human voices near Alaska salmon streams, and bears and eagles fled before the forest could receive what the fish carried 

July 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A rescued beluga whale is carefully lifted into its new habitat at SeaWorld San Antonio after being relocated from Marineland of Canada.

Thirty beluga whales were left behind at a closed marine park, and the first rescue trip has already ended in Texas 

July 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Colobus congoensis, the newly identified monkey species with distinctive orange lips discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A monkey with orange lips was hiding in Congo’s rainforest, and scientists say its discovery is rare enough to change what they knew 

July 31, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) that has spread through Italy's Po Delta and devastated clam farms.

An American blue crab invaded Italy’s clam lagoons, and fishers in the Po Delta are watching their old work disappear

July 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, where federal officials are paying to keep more Colorado River water in the reservoir.

The U.S. will pay up to $65 million to leave Colorado River water in Lake Mead, and Hoover Dam explains why

July 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of SpaceX's Starbase launch facility beside the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas.

SpaceX wants 727 acres beside a Texas wildlife refuge, and Indigenous groups say the court must stop the land swap now

July 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Aerial view of a drilling rig operating at a remote energy exploration site surrounded by forest and red earth.

Australia may build a $40 billion AI data center powered by gas, and its electricity demand is the part raising alarms

July 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Arctic bobtail squid (Rossia moelleri) photographed alive on the seafloor in Northeast Greenland National Park.

An Arctic bobtail squid was filmed alive for the first time, and what she was protecting under the ice made the sighting even rarer

July 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration showing mixed plastic waste being converted into high-purity hydrogen through a new thermal treatment process.

Scientists turned mixed plastic waste into hydrogen fuel without sorting it first, and the carbon problem did not escape the reactor

July 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Common eastern bumblebee collecting pollen from a flower during a study on pesticide effects.

Bumblebees survived low doses of a modern pesticide, but scientists found the real damage hidden in genes linked to the next generation

July 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Andean cock-of-the-rock, one of the passerine birds included in an AI-powered study of skeletal evolution.

An AI analyzed 170,000 bird bones from more than 2,000 species, and the result pushes Darwin’s idea one step further

July 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
GPS-collared bull elephant Z16 traveling through the KAZA conservation landscape in southern Africa.

A GPS collar on a young bull elephant in Zambia recorded 7,400 miles across four countries and six national parks, tracing ancient routes that border fences now block

July 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Used electric vehicle battery prepared for recycling at an auto salvage facility.

The cheapest and longest lasting electric car battery is the one nobody wants to recycle, and Colorado passed a law to fix the math before those packs become hazardous waste

July 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Pink tracer dye outlines the treated seawater patch during an ocean alkalinity field experiment in the Gulf of Maine.

US scientists poured 16,500 gallons of lye into the Gulf of Maine and dyed the water bright pink to track it, the first federally approved try at reversing ocean acidity

July 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Homes with rooftop solar panels in Australia where batteries can join a virtual power plant.

Only 24% of Australian battery owners will hand control to an operator, even though it nearly doubles their savings, a really hard sell in the words of one energy boss

July 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
School of reef fish gathers around the base of an offshore wind turbine foundation in Taiwan.

Divers found grouper and snapper massing around 69 steel wind turbine foundations off Taiwan, because on a flat sandy seabed that is the only thing that looks like a cliff

July 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
NASA satellite image captured on May 15, 2026, showing the underwater volcanic eruption in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

NASA satellites caught an underwater eruption in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea that could raise a new island, though the tremors have been fading since June

July 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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