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Arsia Mons cloud stretching west from the volcano across Mars, seen by ESA's Mars Express

Mars’s Arsia Mons cloud stretches up to 1,100 miles from a 12-mile-high volcano every morning for months, and scientists think its ice forms without dust, a process never seen in a planetary atmosphere

By ECONEWS
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October 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Night view over the Jurapark Aargau hills, where towns switched off lights against light pollution

Switzerland’s Jurapark Aargau switched off streetlights in 29 towns for one night to launch a campaign against light pollution, which hurts hedgehogs and glow-worms, and a police chief says dimmer towns see no rise in burglaries

By Adrian Villellas
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October 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Bronze Age folding chair from Vamdrup, Denmark, on display

In a Danish burial mound in 1891, archaeologists found a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age folding chair, the only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe, and its finder wondered if it was a table

By ECONEWS
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October 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Olive trees at the organic olive oil farm near Tarragona, Spain, in a frame from Arnau Serrado's video

Juan, 29, chose an olive farm near Tarragona, Spain, over a Barcelona apartment costing more than $1,100 a month, and now he sells organic olive oil and grows 80 percent of his vegetables

By Adrian Villellas
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October 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
World map drawn in the Equal Earth projection, which shows countries at their true relative size

UN members voted 164 to 1 to encourage the Equal Earth projection, where Brazil looks nearly four times the size of Greenland, a shift Latin American geographers say gives their region new visibility

By ECONEWS
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October 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Burkina Faso farmer Yacouba Sawadogo standing in front of trees on his land

A Burkina Faso farmer filled zaï pits with manure and grew a nearly 100-acre forest on abandoned land, and a study found termite tunnels made rain soak in 2 to 4 times faster

By Adrian Villellas
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October 15, 2026 at 10:14 AM
NASA map of greening in China and India, showing the increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017

Scientists in Nanjing simulated greening in China and India, which together account for nearly one-third of Earth’s added leaf area, and the model shows it cooling western Eurasia while northern North America warms

By ECONEWS
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October 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Uceda castle hill above the Jarama valley, site of the Islamic medina dig in Spain

Uceda, a small town in central Spain, wants volunteers to excavate its hilltop castle and a buried 30-acre Islamic medina, and the archaeologists running the dig offer six weekly spots with breakfast until October 20

By Adrian Villellas
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October 15, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Wind turbine with two red stripes on one blade at the Umoya Energy Wind Farm near Hopefield, South Africa, with a bird flying close to the striped blade

A wind farm in Hopefield, South Africa, painted two red stripes on one blade of four turbines, and a preprint not yet peer reviewed estimates bird deaths at those turbines fell a median 83 percent

By ECONEWS
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October 15, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Cleanup crew of the Moab uranium tailings project posing in front of a rail shipping container with a 17 million tons banner

Moab uranium tailings have moved by train since 2009, and crews have now hauled 17 million tons from the banks of the Colorado River to a disposal cell 30 miles north at Crescent Junction

By Adrian Villellas
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October 15, 2026 at 4:06 AM
TVA's Mike Skaggs and the NRC's Jeremy Bowen hold the framed small modular reactor construction permit certificate for Clinch River Nuclear Unit 1

The Tennessee Valley Authority has an NRC permit to build the first U.S. commercial small modular reactor, a 300-megawatt unit at Clinch River in Oak Ridge, and it still needs a separate operating license

By ECONEWS
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October 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Hull of the Mithridates warship on the seabed off Phanagoria in the Black Sea

Scientists studying a 2,000-year-old Mithridates warship sunk off Phanagoria in the Black Sea tested 22 nails and a 34-pound bronze ram, and found builders paid for copper over cheaper iron to keep it sailing

By ECONEWS
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October 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Supplies for a soda bottle self-watering planter: bottle, cotton wick, soil and a seedling

Naples Botanical Garden shows how an empty 2-liter soda bottle becomes a self-watering planter with a cotton wick, and a University of Kentucky extension guide says capillary action can lift water about 4 inches

By Adrian Villellas
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October 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Shells of the new snail species Cochlostoma komarnica and C. dobrido from Montenegro

Volunteers and scientists found two new snail species in Montenegro with shells about a quarter inch long and a door on the tail, and one lives in a canyon a planned 561-foot dam would flood

By ECONEWS
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October 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
An ailing Iberian pear tree in the Doñana Biological Reserve, Spain

Spain’s Doñana National Park lost over 60 percent of adult Iberian pear trees at one site in two decades, and researchers point to deer, wild boar and falling groundwater

By Adrian Villellas
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October 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
The Pegasus drone launching from its catapult in Queensland

Pegasus, a 16-foot-wide drone built by three Australian companies, flew for almost 2 hours over Queensland on a single lithium-sulfur battery pack, and its makers now expect missions of 5 to 8 hours

By ECONEWS
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October 14, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Crane lowering a floating wind turbine with a tilting rotor onto a Dutch lake

TouchWind put a floating wind turbine with a 20-foot rotor that tilts back like a helicopter in storms on a Dutch lake, and the test asks whether wind farms can pack turbines closer together

By Adrian Villellas
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October 14, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Lionfish resting on an Early Bronze Age amphora at the Kekova wreck, which archaeologists call the oldest known shipwreck, as a diver works a suction hose behind it

Divers off Turkey’s Kekova Island found a shipwreck that archaeologists date to 4,400 to 4,700 years ago and call the oldest known shipwreck, and some of its jars still hold a glossy residue

By ECONEWS
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October 14, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The three masts of the SS Richard Montgomery wreck rising from the Thames Estuary off Sheerness at low tide, with a danger sign warning of unexploded ammunition

The SS Richard Montgomery, a U.S. Liberty ship that sank off Sheerness in 1944, still holds about 1,400 tons of explosives, and salvors have cut away the three masts that marked it for 82 years

By ECONEWS
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October 14, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Fossil skeleton of the four-winged dinosaur Norellraptor barsboldi with close-up panels

A farmer in China’s Liaoning province found a four-winged dinosaur whose lineage evolved 57 bird-like traits in a different order than birds did, a sign its flight gear was built independently

By ECONEWS
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October 14, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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