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Group of Andean rheas walking across a dry highland landscape in Peru, a critically endangered bird species in the Andes

The largest running bird in the Peruvian Andes can reach speeds of about 37 miles per hour, but it now faces a threat from which it cannot escape: a lack of funding

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM

Barcelona urban street selected for biochar asphalt test using olive waste to cut emissions

Barcelona wants to turn a random street into a climate laboratory by 2027 using asphalt made from olive pits and pine waste, which could reduce CO2 emissions from the top layer by up to 75%

By Kevin Montien

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July 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM

Yaguara the jaguar wearing a tracking collar as she leaves her transport crate in Bolivia

Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle

By ECONEWS

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July 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Dania Yasaret Saldaña Martínez presenting her HidroAC+ system that reuses air conditioner water for crops

A student from Nuevo Laredo noticed something that we all see but that almost no one pays attention to: the water dripping from the air conditioner. She turned it into HidroAC+, a system for growing plants in a city where temperatures can exceed 104 °F for months on end

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Diego Saldanha removing plastic waste from floating ecobarrier in Brazil’s Atuba River

For years, he watched as bottles, furniture, and plastic floated past the back of his house, as if the river were a floating landfill, until this Brazilian father built a homemade barrier that has already removed more than 40 metric tons of trash

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Artificial water canal in Ceará, Brazil, part of a large-scale drought mitigation project

Brazil is nearing completion of an “artificial river” nearly 145 kilometers long in Ceará, a large-scale project that is already 92% complete and promises to bring water to communities where drought has been a constant for generations

By Kevin Montien

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July 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Researchers working inside underground tunnel studying microbes for carbon capture

At 4,100 feet underground, in an old gold mine in South Dakota, some extremely rare microbes could do something amazing: turn CO2 from factories into solid rock

By Adrian Villellas

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July 14, 2026 at 4:36 AM

Cracks in a house wall caused by small earthquakes in Surrey village

A town in Surrey experienced more than 100 small earthquakes between 2018 and 2019, and scientists are now investigating whether an oil well just 3 or 6 miles away might have had something to do with it

By Adrian Villellas

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July 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM

Female Edwards's pheasant born at Bioparc Fuengirola before joining an international conservation program to restore the species in Vietnam.

A pheasant born in Málaga has just traveled thousands of kilometers to Vietnam in an effort to restore a species that has not been reliably sighted in its forests since 2000

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Compact 2.24 kWh balcony solar battery sold by Lidl in Germany for storing electricity generated by residential solar panels.

What appears to be a simple supermarket product could be hiding a small energy revolution: a 2.24-kWh battery that costs about $350 and is already attracting attention across Europe

By Kevin Montien

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July 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM

European eel in shallow freshwater river with low water levels during summer drought.

It isn’t the Iberian lynx or the polar bear closest to extinction in Spain, but a fish you can still legally catch as summer dries its rivers to stagnant pools

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Portable home battery plugged into a wall outlet inside an apartment.

Across Australia, people are quietly plugging illegal batteries into their apartment walls, and the underground rush to power balconies with the sun is forcing a change few saw coming

By Kevin Montien

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July 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Large solar farm installed near residential homes in rural Italy highlighting land use conflict.

A quiet town in northern Italy could wake to find 14,000 solar panels planted on a field wedged between their homes, and the residents’ revolt exposed something no one expected

By Adrian Villellas

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July 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM

Aerial view of the Darlington SMR nuclear construction site in Ontario, Canada.

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

By Kevin Montien

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July 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Offshore wind turbine platform being transported for installation at sea.

While data centers strain power grids, consume water, and are a source of complaints on land, a San Francisco based company wants to move part of the artificial intelligence boom out to sea, inside floating wind turbines

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM

Person holding used coffee grounds in a paper filter after brewing.

It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM

Scattered invasive pine trees spreading across a dry hillside in New Zealand.

What appeared to be a simple tree growing on a hillside can turn into a dense stand of invasive pine trees capable of depleting watersheds, displacing native plants, and altering an entire landscape

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Aerial view of coastal flooding with seawater covering roads and land due to rising sea levels.

Sea levels are not rising solely because Greenland and Antarctica are melting, but because the ocean is expanding from within, and that invisible factor alone accounts for 43% of the rise recorded since 1960

By Kevin Montien

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July 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Chinantec Indigenous women monitoring wildlife in tropical forest as part of conservation programs in Oaxaca.

In Oaxaca, some women walk up to 10 hours through the jungle to check camera traps that have captured images of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and 24 other species of mammals

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Fisherman holding toxic invasive pufferfish caught in Mediterranean waters Greece

For years, fishermen had watched this strange fish destroy their nets; now Greece has decided to pay for each one caught, in an effort to curb its spread

By Adrian Villellas

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July 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM

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The largest running bird in the Peruvian Andes can reach speeds of about 37 miles per hour, but it now faces a threat from which it cannot escape: a lack of funding

Barcelona wants to turn a random street into a climate laboratory by 2027 using asphalt made from olive pits and pine waste, which could reduce CO2 emissions from the top layer by up to 75%

Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle

A student from Nuevo Laredo noticed something that we all see but that almost no one pays attention to: the water dripping from the air conditioner. She turned it into HidroAC+, a system for growing plants in a city where temperatures can exceed 104 °F for months on end

For years, he watched as bottles, furniture, and plastic floated past the back of his house, as if the river were a floating landfill, until this Brazilian father built a homemade barrier that has already removed more than 40 metric tons of trash

Brazil is nearing completion of an “artificial river” nearly 145 kilometers long in Ceará, a large-scale project that is already 92% complete and promises to bring water to communities where drought has been a constant for generations

At 4,100 feet underground, in an old gold mine in South Dakota, some extremely rare microbes could do something amazing: turn CO2 from factories into solid rock

A town in Surrey experienced more than 100 small earthquakes between 2018 and 2019, and scientists are now investigating whether an oil well just 3 or 6 miles away might have had something to do with it

A pheasant born in Málaga has just traveled thousands of kilometers to Vietnam in an effort to restore a species that has not been reliably sighted in its forests since 2000

What appears to be a simple supermarket product could be hiding a small energy revolution: a 2.24-kWh battery that costs about $350 and is already attracting attention across Europe

It isn’t the Iberian lynx or the polar bear closest to extinction in Spain, but a fish you can still legally catch as summer dries its rivers to stagnant pools

Across Australia, people are quietly plugging illegal batteries into their apartment walls, and the underground rush to power balconies with the sun is forcing a change few saw coming

A quiet town in northern Italy could wake to find 14,000 solar panels planted on a field wedged between their homes, and the residents’ revolt exposed something no one expected

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

While data centers strain power grids, consume water, and are a source of complaints on land, a San Francisco based company wants to move part of the artificial intelligence boom out to sea, inside floating wind turbines

It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds

What appeared to be a simple tree growing on a hillside can turn into a dense stand of invasive pine trees capable of depleting watersheds, displacing native plants, and altering an entire landscape

Sea levels are not rising solely because Greenland and Antarctica are melting, but because the ocean is expanding from within, and that invisible factor alone accounts for 43% of the rise recorded since 1960

In Oaxaca, some women walk up to 10 hours through the jungle to check camera traps that have captured images of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and 24 other species of mammals

For years, fishermen had watched this strange fish destroy their nets; now Greece has decided to pay for each one caught, in an effort to curb its spread

Archaeologists have uncovered two tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany dating back about 40,000 years

A zircon grain found in Western Australia’s Jack Hills is 4.4 billion years old, making it the oldest known terrestrial mineral grain

A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift

A new diabetes pill lowered blood sugar and body weight more than oral semaglutide, but the convenience came with a harder trade-off

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

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