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Video frames showing a man entering a Dutch canal to rescue a gull trapped in a plastic bag

A man saw a gull struggling to fly from a Dutch canal with a blue plastic bag tangled around its legs, jumped into the water as dozens watched and freed the bird, but not before getting bitten and nearly becoming trapped in underwater plants himself

By ECONEWS
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September 14, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Thin dark Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer exposed beneath sandstone in a rock outcrop, with a rock hammer for scale

A rare metal has traced the dinosaur-killing asteroid beyond Jupiter, and the discovery narrows a 66-million-year-old mystery

By Adrian Villellas
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September 14, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Blue Wuppertal Schwebebahn trains suspended above the Wupper River in Germany

Germany built a “flying train” above a crowded river valley in 1901 because there was barely any room left on the ground, and 125 years later the eight-mile suspended railway still carries more than 80,000 passengers every day

By ECONEWS
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September 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Large wind turbine blade lying on the ground with its composite structure exposed.

Wind turbine blades are built to survive storms for decades, but Sweden is testing how to take them apart afterward

By Adrian Villellas
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September 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Aerial view of a forest-filled doline at Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam

Deep inside a mountain in Vietnam lies a cave passage at least 4 miles long and up to 655 feet high, where collapsed ceilings let sunlight pour underground and feed a 165-foot-tall forest while mist and clouds form above an underground river

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Aerial view of offshore wind turbines at the Global Tech I wind farm in the North Sea.

The wind changed before reaching a North Sea wind farm, and lasers caught the slowdown almost two miles away

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Wind-sculpted snow across the East Antarctic Plateau under a clear blue sky

Satellites scanned Antarctica between 2004 and 2016 and found about 100 shallow hollows where the snow plunged to roughly −144°F (−98°C), revealing how darkness, extraordinarily dry air and almost no wind can create the coldest surfaces measured on Earth

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Older haenyeo woman freediving underwater off Jeju Island without an air tank.

Off Jeju Island, older women vanish beneath the waves on one breath, and science is finally measuring what their bodies learned

By Adrian Villellas
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September 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Kansas rancher Pete Ferrell standing in a field with wind turbines behind him

A Kansas rancher let 50 wind turbines rise across his 7,000-acre cattle ranch in 2005, and 20 years later the cows still graze beneath them while wind royalties provide roughly half his income and help keep the land in the family

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Rocky seafloor illuminated by sunlight filtering through clear ocean water.

Old radioactive material from Oak Ridge could power the seafloor, but the underwater station still exists mostly in tests

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Researcher adjusting optical components on a laser table in a quantum physics laboratory lit in red and blue

Heat flowed from cold to hot in a quantum experiment, and the reason was not free energy but information

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Workers handle recycled glass sand during a coastal restoration project in Louisiana.

New Orleans is turning discarded bottles into coastal sand, and each crushed glass load can help rebuild a shrinking wetland

By ECONEWS
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September 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Two Argentine ant workers passing food mouth to mouth on a cactus

Argentine ants formed a supercolony across Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, linking nests across roughly 3,700 miles

By ECONEWS
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September 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Beekeeper in a safety vest lifting two frames covered in honeybees beside a hive, with solar panels behind

Black Bear Solar added 180,000 honeybees in Virginia, but the fence protects the hives, not the other way around

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Sea lion eating a salmon in the water below Bonneville Dam.

Sea lions learned to wait below Bonneville Dam, and the fish ladder meant to help salmon became a dinner bell

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Scientist in a safety vest surveying pollinators among yellow wildflowers planted beneath solar panels

Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Yellow tree-like coral colonies growing on a rocky outcrop beside pink corals in the deep sea

A golden coral forest off Costa Rica forced scientists to add an entirely new branch to the tree of life

By Adrian Villellas
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September 12, 2026 at 5:19 AM
The Solomon Siren sculpture taking a wave on the reef where Kale Island used to be

Where Kale Island vanished in the Solomon Islands, a silent sculpture now rises and disappears with the tide

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Semi-truck carrying an oversized concrete utility pole base beside damage to an Oklahoma Turnpike bridge.

One unpermitted truck load hit six Oklahoma bridges in a single trip, and the mistake cost nearly half a million dollars

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Campers rescue a young fawn from the Ohio River after the animal struggled against the current.

A fawn fought the Ohio River current for nearly an hour, and her rescue shows when wildlife really needs human help

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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