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Earth over cracked dry ground symbolizing global water scarcity and “Day Zero” drought risk

Day Zero water crises could emerge in the 2020s and 2030s in parts of the Mediterranean, Africa and North America, a study warns

By Adrian Villellas
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January 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM
U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy cargo plane on the runway at night with ground crews and floodlights around the aircraft.

An aviation giant triggered the 7700 emergency code over the Pacific and turned back toward Travis Air Force Base

By ECONEWS
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January 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A farmer in a straw hat holds a pile of gold nuggets in a freshly dug field, with a warning sign marked “HOAX” behind him.

The great hoax of the farmer who found a treasure worth 4 billion that never existed and now raises a question that makes half the country uncomfortable

By Adrian Villellas
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January 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Satellite chlorophyll-a map of the Gulf of Panama showing plankton-rich waters linked to seasonal upwelling.

The Panama Sea stopped “breathing” in 2025, and what satellites and fishermen saw had never been recorded in four decades

By ECONEWS
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January 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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
Illustration of a powerful gamma-ray burst explosion, with a bright central flash and expanding energy waves in deep space.

They captured a gamma-ray burst lasting just 10 seconds, and the question is no longer what it was, but how it could have traveled almost 13 billion years to arrive right now

By Adrian Villellas
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January 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A skier descends a snowy slope on Mount Etna as a lava glow and thick ash plume rise behind the ridge in eastern Sicily.

A skier was carving turns in the freshly fallen snow when, behind the ridge line, a volcano began spewing ash and smoke as if winter had run out of sky in Sicily

By ECONEWS
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January 16, 2026 at 8:45 AM
NGC 6789, a compact dwarf galaxy with a bright bluish core, surrounded by a dense star field in a deep-sky image.

A new telescope points to the Local Void and discovers something puzzling: the loneliest galaxy continues to ignite stars with a blue core that should not exist

By Adrian Villellas
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January 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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
Satellite view of Spain’s Mar Menor coastal lagoon and the La Manga sandbar separating it from the Mediterranean Sea.

The Mar Menor hides an underground river that no one could see, and every year it leaves a toxic “signature” underwater where thousands of people swim

By ECONEWS
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January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Total solar eclipse seen from space as the Moon blocks the Sun above Earth, with a bright corona glowing around the dark disk.

The eclipse that many are already calling the eclipse of the century is coming, and what is disturbing is not only the darkness but also how slowly its shadow will advance

By Adrian Villellas
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January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Cutaway illustration of Earth showing the mantle and core, highlighting deep interior layers near the core-mantle boundary.

Two giant “spots” under Africa and the Pacific have been puzzling geologists for decades, and a new model suggests they could be the key to why life exists here

By ECONEWS
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January 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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
Mountain reservoir and hydroelectric dam in Romania’s Carpathians, with a curved concrete wall holding back a long lake between green ridges.

Hidden in the Carpathian Mountains at an altitude of 1,300 meters is a gigantic hydroelectric power plant that was once called the greatest in Europe, yet almost no one knows about it

By Adrian Villellas
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January 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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
Illustration of a tokamak fusion reactor chamber with a bright ring of superheated plasma confined by magnetic fields.

South Korea’s KSTAR holds 100 million °C plasma for 48 seconds after upgrading its tungsten walls

By Adrian Villellas
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January 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Solar farm at sunset with a cutout of a surprised woman and an inset showing Kyosemi’s Sphelar spherical solar cell technology.

Sphelar, Japan’s spherical solar cells that challenge the flat panel design used since 1883

By ECONEWS
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January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
North Korean leader stands inside an indoor shipyard beside a large submarine hull shown in newly released state media photos.

North Korea shows what it claims to be its nuclear submarine for the first time, and the images raise more questions than answers

By ECONEWS
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January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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
Artist illustration of the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy, showing multiple bright star-forming clumps inside a young rotating galaxy in the early universe.

It looked like a quiet galaxy from afar, but upon closer inspection, a “cluster” of stars appeared that should not have existed so soon after the Big Bang

By Adrian Villellas
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January 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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