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Hydrothermal formations at the Lost City field deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

Scientists drilled 4,160 feet into the Atlantic seafloor and found water with a chemical fingerprint of 572°F heating, a clue to how Lost City’s rare alkaline vents survive

By ECONEWS
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August 17, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Cindy Mora and her son Fabrizio outside their recycled-plastic block house in Costa Rica.

A Costa Rican mother saved for nine years to buy land, and 850 blocks of recycled plastic became the walls of the house 800 volunteers are wrongly credited with building

By Adrian Villellas
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August 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Caretaker with a rescued pig at Selah’s Pig Sanctuary in Hawaii.

Hawaii’s feral pigs damage ecosystems across the islands, and a Big Island sanctuary now recruits live-in interns to rescue and care for them in exchange for housing

By Adrian Villellas
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August 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Lear's macaw chick being hand-fed by a keeper at Pairi Daiza.

A Belgian park has now bred all three blue macaw species, and the two chicks that completed the record needed twelve hand feedings a day to survive their first week

By ECONEWS
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August 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Rescued female saltwater crocodile from Magalang, Pampanga, Philippines

Saltwater crocodiles vanished from Philippine coasts decades ago, and a 10-foot female’s rescue this August revealed more about captive wildlife than a comeback

By ECONEWS
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August 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Large piles of discarded wind turbine blades cut into sections for disposal.

Wyoming’s landfill holds 1,124 wind turbine blades, but a Missouri cement plant has already found a second life for 7,000 more

By ECONEWS
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August 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of a dam and fish passage infrastructure on the St. Croix River in Maine.

A fish elevator on a Maine dam could reopen 600 miles of river to a small fish, and the whales people keep mentioning are not part of the story yet

By Adrian Villellas
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August 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Compact SAXON Q diamond-based quantum computing systems designed to operate at room temperature.

A German startup sells a quantum computer that runs at room temperature in an ordinary server rack, but the qubit count on the label is not the one that matters

By ECONEWS
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August 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wood-based foam mixture being poured into molds during development at the University of Maine.

A graduate student in Maine turned wood into a foam that keeps a cooler almost as cold as plastic does, and the part that still fails is not the temperature

By ECONEWS
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August 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
King cobra with its hood raised on the leaf-covered floor of a forest.

Mushroom gatherers walked into a Nepalese forest and found a nest built by the only snake known to make one, and officials have now restricted access to the site

By ECONEWS
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August 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
People planting young trees together during a Green Legacy tree-planting event in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia put 805 million seedlings in the ground in twelve hours with 26 million people helping, and the number that will actually decide whether it worked is still years away

By ECONEWS
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August 15, 2026 at 8:49 AM
PNNL chemist Chinmayee Subban demonstrates technology developed to extract magnesium from seawater.

Scientists say one thousandth of the ocean holds enough lithium and magnesium to last 50,000 years, but an Olympic pool of seawater shows why almost nobody can get it out

By ECONEWS
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August 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Map of Europe showing extreme summer heat across western and southern Europe with a thermometer in the foreground.

NASA satellite images show France, Spain and Italy turning brown within weeks, and the measurement behind the color change is one Europe has never recorded in a summer before

By ECONEWS
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August 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Mervin Raudabaugh standing on his Pennsylvania farm, which he chose to preserve instead of selling to data center developers.

An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer turned down more than $15 million from data center developers and took $1.9 million instead, for a reason that had almost nothing to do with money

By Adrian Villellas
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August 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Roy Kim, a 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge finalist who developed a water-from-air irrigation system for plants.

A 13-year-old in Oregon built a chamber that pulls drinking water out of the air for dry farms, and the amount it produced in two hours explains the real problem

By ECONEWS
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August 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Crane loads a rock-filled barge on a river, similar to the barges used to redirect Danube flow in Romania

Romania sank four rock-filled barges into the Danube to keep a nuclear reactor running, and the river rose an inch and a half when forecasters had expected a drop

By ECONEWS
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August 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
GPS collars reveal snow leopards roam far larger territories than previously recorded, crossing international borders.

Four snow leopards wearing GPS collars in Nepal sent back 4,707 signals, and three of them crossed into China and India so often that the conservation map no longer fits

By ECONEWS
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August 14, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Agricultural sprayer applying herbicide across a large crop field.

Syngenta is leaving Australia’s paraquat market after an 80 percent spraying cut, but the weed killer linked in studies to Parkinson’s concerns will remain

By ECONEWS
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August 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Several moose gathered in open habitat in Newfoundland.

Newfoundland introduced moose in 1878 and released four more in 1904, and today about 110,000 descendants are reshaping the island’s forests

By Adrian Villellas
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August 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
An invasive black rat on a tropical island where introduced rodents have reduced seabird populations and altered nearby coral reef food webs.

Rats never touch the coral, yet on islands where they wiped out the seabirds the whole underwater food chain took another route, and crabs gained the ground the fish lost

By Adrian Villellas
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August 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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