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Artist's impression of the rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b orbiting its red dwarf star with an extended atmosphere.

Astronomers found helium in the atmosphere of LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years from Earth, the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet orbiting another star

By Adrian Villellas
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August 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
A reef cube is loaded onto a vessel before deployment for a native oyster restoration project in northeast England.

Britain is dropping 20 concrete reef cubes and 44 tons of scallop shells into the sea, and the goal is to bring back oysters down more than 95% since the 1800s

By ECONEWS
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August 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Black2Green's 15-tonne-per-day plastics-to-energy facility in Whangārei, New Zealand.

A New Zealand plastic-to-fuel plant can keep operating after an Environment Court ruling, and Zero Waste Aotearoa says the missing emissions evidence is the real alarm

By ECONEWS
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August 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Modern Australian home with rooftop solar panels and a residential battery energy storage system.

Australia’s home battery installations fell more than 70% in a single month, from 80,000 in April to just over 20,000 in May, after the rebate rules changed

By ECONEWS
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August 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Colombian Navy personnel board a fishing boat during an operation near the Malpelo Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean.

Colombia intercepted a boat with 1,764 pounds of marine animals near Malpelo, and the catch may have come from one of the Pacific’s most protected sanctuaries

By ECONEWS
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August 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Wild Iberian rabbit (Oryctolagus algirus) in its natural habitat on the Iberian Peninsula.

Scientists split the Iberian rabbit from the European rabbit after 2 million years apart, and the newly named Oryctolagus algirus is already vanishing from western Iberia

By Adrian Villellas
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August 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Mixed forest in France undergoing reforestation as part of national forest renewal efforts.

France promised a billion trees in ten years, and its Council of State has now struck down the decree that paid for it, for skipping public consultation

By Adrian Villellas
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August 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
President Donald Trump in front of the Bears Ears landscape after signing proclamations that dramatically reduced the Utah national monument.

Trump cut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 2.93 million acres, leaving barely a tenth protected and reopening the Utah desert to mining and oil

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
High-voltage transmission lines and an electrical substation supplying power to a large AI data center in the United States.

Power lines for AI data centers could cross private land by force, and the legal tool behind it is raising a new climate fight

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Computer rendering of the JetZero Z4 blended-wing aircraft in Japan Airlines livery flying above clouds.

The aircraft, designed to replace the traditional tube-and-wing configuration, will seat 250 passengers and have a range of nearly 5,800 miles, though it still faces several major uncertainties

By Adrian Villellas
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August 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Wind turbines standing near a military radar installation in the United States.

The Pentagon has put 155 wind projects on hold, and the reason is not the turbines but what military radars may fail to see

By Adrian Villellas
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August 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Aerial view of the protected River Lugg after a British farmer used heavy machinery to reshape the riverbank

A British farmer drove a 20-metric-ton excavator into a protected river, uprooted 71 mature trees, and the damage he caused in just a few days could take 50 years to disappear

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Worker unloads recycled oyster shells collected from restaurants for coastal reef restoration.

Florida is turning the shells left behind by restaurant patrons into living reefs, but the figure of 500,000 metric tons does not appear in official records

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Empress cicada with transparent wings used to develop an ultrasensitive optical sensor

Scientists have transformed a simple fragment of a cicada’s wing into an optical platform capable of detecting molecular signals that, under normal conditions, would be virtually impossible to detect

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
polymetallic-nodules-deep-sea-minerals

The U.S. wants to auction deep waters around American Samoa, and the minerals lying up to 20,000 feet down could open a new ocean fight

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Low water levels expose sandbanks along the Rhine River during Europe's 2026 summer drought.

Europe’s great rivers are shrinking under heat and drought, and the Danube, Rhine and Loire are showing how fast summer can redraw the continent

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Illegal agricultural plastic waste dump near greenhouses in Boqueras Altas, Almería, Spain.

One plastic-covered plot in Almería is exposing the hidden cost of Europe’s greenhouse vegetables, and the waste has been piling up for more than a decade

By Adrian Villellas
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August 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Global CADI map showing projected climate-driven gains and losses in agricultural productivity across the world's croplands.

A new climate map can forecast farm decline almost six miles at a time, and the warning is already visible in one in six croplands

By ECONEWS
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August 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of an Adélie penguin colony surrounded by guano stains in Antarctica used to study diet changes from satellite imagery.

Satellite images are reading penguin droppings across Antarctica, and the color of the stains is revealing how climate change is reshaping their food web

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Semi-pelagic trawl doors being tested off Spain to reduce seabed contact during commercial fishing.

Scientists are testing “flying doors” that keep trawls above the seabed, and the result could change how fishing scars the ocean floor

By ECONEWS
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July 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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