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Excavator dumping a large pile of recycled oyster shells used for coastal restoration projects.

A marine scientist in Southern California has turned restaurant waste into coastal restoration by collecting more than 24,000 pounds of discarded oyster shells, curing them in the sun, and using them to rebuild reefs that protect shorelines and filter water

By ECONEWS
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June 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Deep sea coral with long hair like branches floating in the dark ocean, resembling the Chewbacca inspired species.

Scientists discover a new deep-ocean coral nicknamed “Chewbacca,” and Iridogorgia thrives where sunlight never reaches and life seems impossible

By Adrian Villellas
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June 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Aerial view of a large crack in Antarctic sea ice exposing dark ocean water between ice sheets.

Warm water in the Amundsen Sea is eroding the base of key West Antarctic glaciers, and Thwaites and Pine Island are becoming the ice’s most unsettling thermometer

By ECONEWS
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June 1, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Large 3D printer building clay dome structures for the TECLA house using local soil in Italy.

Italian architects 3D-print a house from local clay— without using traditional bricks — by sourcing soil from the site itself. The question is no longer if it works but how much it can cut costs?

By Adrian Villellas
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June 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Cranes lifting prefabricated apartment modules into place during construction of a modular building in China.

A crew of around 100 workers and two cranes turned what looked like oversized shipping containers into a 26-story tower in five days. The real takeaway is that the slowest parts of construction – wiring, ductwork, and finishes – were done before anything arrived on site

By ECONEWS
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June 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Archaeologist inspects entrance of a rock-cut underground tunnel discovered near Ramat Rachel in Jerusalem.

Archaeologists find a 164-foot underground tunnel in Jerusalem, and the massive build has no clear answer, putting the city under its own history once again

By ECONEWS
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May 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Hydrogen-powered turboprop aircraft taxiing on runway during AEP100 test in China.

While the world fights over oil, China just flew a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo plane powered by a megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop, climbing to 984 feet, covering 22.4 miles at 137 mph, and landing 16 minutes later with the engine running smoothly the whole way

By ECONEWS
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May 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
California farmers preparing to remove clingstone peach trees following the permanent closure of the Del Monte cannery in Modesto.

Del Monte’s bankruptcy leaves California peach farmers removing orchards, with $9 million in USDA aid

By ECONEWS
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May 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Industrial pyrolysis unit used by Petgas to convert plastic waste into fuel products in Boca del Río, Mexico.

Plastic headed for landfills is being turned into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel in Mexico, and Petgas is sparking an uncomfortable debate about what “recycling” really means

By ECONEWS
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May 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Raw sheep wool spread as protective mulch around the base of a young olive tree to retain soil moisture.

Farmers find an unexpected ally: sheep wool improves olive grove soils and could help them withstand drought without chemicals or major construction

By ECONEWS
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May 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A close-up view of a tiny, reddish-orange kyawthuite crystal, the only confirmed natural specimen of this mineral species in existence.

The rarest mineral recognized by science weighs about 0.011 ounces, exists as a single known natural specimen, and its discovery exposes how fragile Earth’s catalog still is

By Adrian Villellas
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May 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A pressure cooker on a stovetop with steam escaping from the pressure valve during a cooking experiment.

Inside a pressure cooker, a simple experiment shows how steam raises temperature and speeds up beans, and it also explains why that whistle is pure physics

By ECONEWS
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May 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
The expansive oval-shaped roof and architectural interior of the massive Xiong’an Railway Station in China.

China built Asia’s largest rail station in just two years, with about 5.1 million square feet, solar power, and welding robots, and the scale shows who’s setting the infrastructure pace

By ECONEWS
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May 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The Petralona cranium, an ancient hominin skull discovered in northern Greece, featuring a distinct, primitive morphology.

A 286,000-year-old hominin skull found in Petralona Cave in Greece still has no clear identity, and the gap reopens the puzzle of who lived in Europe before Neanderthals

By ECONEWS
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May 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Weathered decontamination canisters found abandoned in a remote, rocky ravine near Dixon, New Mexico.

A 70-year-old hiker says someone chose a spot “real hard to get to” near Rinconada and Dixon to dump decontamination canisters from the 1980s, and the state still cannot say what risks, if any, are sitting in that remote ravine

By ECONEWS
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May 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A massive center cutterhead section for a tunnel boring machine being transported on a 152-wheel specialized trailer through city streets.

It took a truck with 152 wheels to move a 302,000-pound tunnel-boring cutterhead, and the transport logistics look like an engineering project inside another engineering project

By ECONEWS
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May 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A deepwater drilling rig operating in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil at the Bumerangue exploration site.

BP finds oil and gas nearly 20,000 feet deep in Brazil’s Santos Basin, its largest discovery in 25 years

By Adrian Villellas
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May 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Large mesh fog harvesting nets mounted on a mountain ridge in Morocco's Anti-Atlas region to collect water from atmospheric mist.

For generations women in southwest Morocco spent up to 4 hours a day hauling five-gallon barrels that weighed nearly 50 pounds, and now giant polymer fog nets mounted above 4,000 feet pull Atlantic mist out of the air and send drinking water to taps about 6.2 miles away

By ECONEWS
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May 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A well-preserved heavy iron anchor recovered from the seabed during construction of the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm.

Buried under North Sea sand for nearly 2,000 years, a Roman iron-and-wood anchor more than 6.6 feet long and weighing about 220 pounds was lifted off the Suffolk coast so intact it looks impossible, and archaeologists say it may have held a merchant ship of 500 to 600 tons in place

By ECONEWS
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May 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Historical illustration of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption showing massive ash plumes and atmospheric shock waves radiating outward.

Nuclear blasts can go unnoticed from 1,000 km away, but the loudest sound ever recorded was heard 4,800 km away and circled the planet four times, a physics oddity that still stuns

By ECONEWS
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May 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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