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Viral stories about wildlife, animal rescues and curious finds

Trending brings together the viral environmental stories everyone is sharing: animal rescues, wildlife encounters, curious discoveries and people making a difference. Feel-good and surprising news from around the world.

At a fire lab at Brazil’s Unisinos University, Tetra Pak carton strips carried flames nearly 6 inches in 14 seconds, and the 17.6°F they took off a test roof’s surface shrank indoors

By ECONEWS

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October 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM

Kelvin Doe built a battery, a generator and an FM radio station from Freetown’s trash and reached MIT at 15, and 14 years later he is building a free youth makerspace in Toronto

By Adrian Villellas

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October 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM

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

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

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

A village of a few dozen winter residents on Stromboli reopened what Italian media call the smallest school in Europe for one 6-year-old girl, and her mother says the alternative was splitting the family

By Adrian Villellas

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October 11, 2026 at 8:44 AM

A Brazilian mechanic pushed a water-filled bottle through a roof tile during 2002 blackouts, and lab tests show his solar bottle bulb passes 50 to 70 percent of incoming light and spreads it more evenly

By Adrian Villellas

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October 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM

Brisk walking or jogging ranked high for bone density in a review of 124 trials

By ECONEWS

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October 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM

An abandoned village in Galicia with 12 stone houses was listed for 0 euros, but the broker says the deal is a 50-year concession and the town puts the bill for roads, water and power at up to €3 million

By Adrian Villellas

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October 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM

According to psychology, loneliness combined with social isolation may cost men about 5.8 years free of depression or anxiety after 50, and in a study of 277,489 adults healthy habits narrowed the gap for isolation but not for loneliness

By Adrian Villellas

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October 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM

A 16-year-old from Massachusetts built a desktop machine that turns failed 3D prints and old plastic bottles into new filament for 90% less than commercial recyclers, and it won him a $75,000 award

By ECONEWS

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October 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM

A California retiree started picking up litter on her pandemic walks, and the volunteer group she built in the San Fernando Valley says it has now hauled away nearly 750,000 pounds of trash

By ECONEWS

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October 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Sleeping with the bedroom door closed is being sold online as the sign of a confident personality, but the strongest evidence is about fire, where closed rooms in tests stayed below 100°F while open ones passed 1,000°F

By ECONEWS

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October 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM

A Rutgers study of nearly 1,700 people found fathers of daughters felt more committed to their child’s mother than fathers of sons, and in couples tracked from pregnancy the gap began after birth

By ECONEWS

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October 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM

Researchers sifting 8,173 insect remains from a burial cave on Gran Canaria found granary weevils revealing it first stored grain, and blowflies showing the dead were placed inside right after death

By Adrian Villellas

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October 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM

Archaeologists in Romania excavated a 6,000-year-old pottery kiln with an 81-square-foot floor and replaceable clay slabs, the largest of its kind, suggesting potters worked beyond household needs

By ECONEWS

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October 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM

A bear shoulder blade found in England in 1864 helped show that bear-baiting was established by the 12th century, about 400 years before Shakespeare’s London, as imports of live bears grew after 1066

By Adrian Villellas

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October 2, 2026 at 8:42 AM

Mineral layers in the Roman aqueduct that crosses the Pont du Gard show it stopped supplying Nîmes around AD 270, during the Plague of Cyprian, while water kept flowing to farms upstream for 140 years

By ECONEWS

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October 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM

Archaeologists working along Mexico’s Maya Train found ray barb fragments and a catfish spine in burials near the Usumacinta River and are studying whether the Maya used them to draw their own blood

By ECONEWS

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October 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Archaeologists checking a building plot in Italy found a 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb where a Greek wine vessel painted with horsemen and a siren held the cremated bones of a person of high rank

By Adrian Villellas

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October 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM

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