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Bottlenose dolphin mother and calf surfacing together in the Gulf of Mexico

Scientists filmed a bottlenose dolphin calf handling a seashell just three minutes after its mother used the same shell while hunting, offering a rare clue that this unusual fishing technique may be passed between generations, although researchers say the brief encounter does not yet prove the calf learned it from its mother

By ECONEWS
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September 28, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Cattle grazing in a green field beside rows of solar panels

A Tennessee solar farm is testing cattle beneath moving panels, using a special “grazing mode” to create safer clearance for cows and calves while still generating enough electricity for roughly 500 homes, a commercial test of whether farming and solar power can truly share the same land

By ECONEWS
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September 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Researcher holding a large stick insect

An Australian stick insect people had photographed for years only now received its own scientific name, and researchers also found a rainforest species whose eggs carry rings never seen before

By ECONEWS
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September 27, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Cluster of invasive zebra mussels attached to the shell of a native mussel

Three intake gates at South Dakota’s Gavins Point Dam emerged from the Missouri River carrying about 75,000 pounds of zebra mussels and debris, revealing how a tiny invasive species can clog cooling systems and threaten hydropower serving roughly 68,000 homes

By Adrian Villellas
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September 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Black and white photo of Marie Curie working in her Paris laboratory in 1912

More than 120 years after Marie Curie’s experiments, some of her laboratory notebooks remain radioactively contaminated, but France’s national library says visitors behind glass receive essentially no additional radiation while the originals require strict handling controls because radium-226 has a half-life of about 1,600 years

By ECONEWS
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September 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Golden eagle flying with its wings fully spread

At a 110-turbine Wyoming wind farm, AI-powered cameras can spot approaching eagles and automatically slow individual turbines, with one study estimating an 82% drop in fatalities, although later research found substantial uncertainty around exactly how much the system reduces deaths

By Adrian Villellas
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September 27, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Adult greater flamingo feeding a grey fluffy chick with crop milk

Nine flamingo chicks at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are revealing one of bird parenting’s strangest sacrifices: both mothers and fathers produce nutrient-rich red “crop milk” that can drain so much pigment from their bodies that the famously pink adults temporarily fade to nearly white

By Adrian Villellas
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September 27, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Large wind turbine blades lying on the ground showing their round root ends

Wind turbine blades are notoriously difficult to recycle, but Carbon Rivers demonstrated recovered glass fiber with 99.9% purity that could return to manufacturing, while recent cleanup concerns in Tennessee show that successful recycling depends on safely processing and actually selling the recovered material, not simply shredding old blades

By ECONEWS
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September 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Old mattresses dumped on a street pavement next to a wall

Americans throw away an estimated 50,000 mattresses every day even though more than 75% of their components can be reused, and Oregon’s first full year of statewide collection kept 134,000 mattresses and box springs out of the waste stream while recovering 5.9 million pounds of material

By Adrian Villellas
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September 27, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Green algal bloom along the shore of Lake Erie near Kelleys Island

Scientists found fish crowding along the edges of Lake Erie’s oxygen-starved “dead zones,” creating unusually large catches that can make populations look healthier than they really are and potentially distort estimates used to prevent overfishing

By ECONEWS
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September 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Solar panel canopies and battery units installed on a former landfill

New Haven turned a landfill that stopped accepting trash more than 20 years ago into a solar farm with over 1,900 panels, enough to generate the equivalent annual electricity use of about 200 homes while bringing the city $72,000 a year in rent

By Adrian Villellas
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September 26, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Autonomous underwater vehicle being prepared for launch at a test event

Anduril’s three-ton Dive-LD underwater robot lets seawater flood through its outer body to survive depths of 6,000 meters, can operate for up to 10 days and is now being developed for tasks ranging from military missions to inspecting offshore wind cables on the seafloor

By Adrian Villellas
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September 26, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Swirling cloud bands of Jupiter photographed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft

Carl Sagan imagined an ecosystem floating in Jupiter’s clouds with microscopic “sinkers,” kilometer-scale balloon-like “floaters” and roaming “hunters,” but nearly 50 years later scientists have found only that some atmospheric layers could meet limited conditions for life, not evidence that anything actually lives there

By ECONEWS
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September 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Alpine Muttsee reservoir surrounded by rocky mountains in summer

Nearly 5,000 solar panels were installed on a Swiss dam 8,200 feet above sea level, and despite deep snow and freezing temperatures the Alpine plant produced 3.8 times more winter electricity per unit of capacity than a lowland installation during its first measured year

By ECONEWS
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September 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Aerial view of Midway Atoll surrounded by turquoise lagoon water

Atolls can take up to 30 million years to form and now support about 1 million people and 31 million seabirds, but rising seas reveal a surprising paradox because some islands are still growing even as flooding and saltwater threaten to make them increasingly difficult places to live

By Adrian Villellas
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September 26, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Row of wooden beehives standing in a grassy apiary

A truck carrying 70,000 pounds of beehives overturned in Washington and released an estimated 14 million bees, but instead of destroying the colonies responders gave them up to 48 hours to regroup around their queens, inspiring a new 10-page emergency plan for future bee spills

By ECONEWS
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September 26, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Cultivated Sahel farmland with mature Faidherbia albida trees standing between the fields

An Australian agronomist watched almost every seedling he planted in Niger die, until he noticed that the shrubs growing in the fields were living stumps, and that single observation regenerated 5 million hectares before the Great Green Wall existed

By Adrian Villellas
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September 26, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Rows of vertical bifacial solar panels standing on a planted green roof

A Queens rooftop is combining a living green roof with roughly 100 kW of solar panels standing vertically like books, a design expected to generate about 120,000 kWh a year while leaving sunlight, rain, and maintenance access for the plants underneath

By Adrian Villellas
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September 25, 2026 at 6:27 PM
First newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence from July 1776

America’s Declaration of Independence was translated into German just days after July 4, 1776, but only two copies of that first broadside edition are known to survive, and Berlin can expose its 250-year-old sheet to just 50 lux for three months before returning it to darkness for at least three years

By ECONEWS
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September 25, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Entrance to the Escoural cave archaeological site in Portugal

Scientists sampled 120 surfaces inside caves in Portugal and Spain and recovered ancient human DNA from just five, including a red-pigment crust at Escoural, revealing that even apparently blank cave walls can preserve genetic traces of people who passed through thousands of years ago

By ECONEWS
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September 25, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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