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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.

Mark Rothko abstract painting with color fields shown in the Rothko in Florence exhibition

Mark Rothko’s famous rectangles make more sense after a visit to Florence, where a Michelangelo staircase and Fra Angelico’s monastery frescoes showed him how a painting could make viewers feel enclosed

By Adrian Villellas
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September 17, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Brown and white husky standing on top of a shelter kennel at Richmond Animal Care and Control

They thought this husky was inside her cage until they looked up and discovered her “escape plan”

By ECONEWS
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September 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
A tan pug mother lying on a pink paw-print blanket while her two black-and-white spotted puppies nurse beside her

A Modesto porch hid a pug mother and two cow-spotted puppies, but California heat made the rescue urgent

By ECONEWS
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September 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Video frames showing a man entering a Dutch canal to rescue a gull trapped in a plastic bag

A man saw a gull struggling to fly from a Dutch canal with a blue plastic bag tangled around its legs, jumped into the water as dozens watched and freed the bird, but not before getting bitten and nearly becoming trapped in underwater plants himself

By ECONEWS
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September 14, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Older haenyeo woman freediving underwater off Jeju Island without an air tank.

Off Jeju Island, older women vanish beneath the waves on one breath, and science is finally measuring what their bodies learned

By Adrian Villellas
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September 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Campers rescue a young fawn from the Ohio River after the animal struggled against the current.

A fawn fought the Ohio River current for nearly an hour, and her rescue shows when wildlife really needs human help

By ECONEWS
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September 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
2026 Native American $1 Coin depicting Polly Cooper sharing the Oneida gift of corn with George Washington.

A new U.S. dollar coin carries a quiet clue from 1778, and it points to the people who helped America survive

By Adrian Villellas
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September 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Four kittens found confined inside a taped grocery basket outside a BC SPCA shelter.

Four kittens survived inside a taped grocery basket outside a British Columbia shelter, but their rescue shows why drop-offs can turn dangerous

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Mother opossum tangled in a soccer net with her joeys hidden underneath during the Florida rescue

A Florida opossum looked aggressive in a soccer net, but rescuers soon realized she was protecting her babies

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Never the dog stepping through the glass balcony door into Mauro Tutzo's apartment

A dog named Never crossed onto a neighbor’s balcony, and one unexpected visit turned into a daily friendship neither saw coming

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Truman Lowe's monumental Ottawa sculpture made from pine and peeled willow saplings.

Willow branches became rivers and canoes in Truman Lowe’s hands, and a Washington exhibition shows why his art still feels alive

By ECONEWS
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September 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Haze reunited with her owner Ana after nearly a year apart in San Diego.

A dog waited nearly a year in a San Diego shelter after her owner fell into a coma, and one familiar face online changed everything

By Adrian Villellas
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September 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Aerial image of Tracy Gartenmann's Austin home used by Travelers Insurance to flag tree branches near the roof.

An aerial photo warned an Austin homeowner her insurance could vanish, and the tree branches it spotted cost her $3,000

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Miami-Dade firefighter comforting Jack after finding the black dog inside a dumpster.

Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made an unexpected new friend

By ECONEWS
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September 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Vertical solar fence with photovoltaic panels installed along the boundary of a residential property.

It had been standing beside a backyard fence for years looking like an ordinary part of the property, but when someone finally investigated what it was doing there the answer turned out to be far stranger than expected

By ECONEWS
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August 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Asa, a white rabbit, inside the small cage where he was found in Indonesia.

A surfer spotted a rabbit living inside a hanging cage and initially thought he could keep walking, but one closer look at the animal changed what happened next and turned an ordinary day into a rescue

By ECONEWS
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August 28, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Zendaya wearing earrings incorporating two ancient Iranian gold plaques at The Odyssey photocall in London.

Zendaya wore Iranian plaques from the first millennium BC at a London premiere, raising questions about documentation as heritage researchers demand complete ownership histories for ancient objects in celebrity circulation

By ECONEWS
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August 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Person holding a blue NIVEA Creme tin

Millions of people have been using NIVEA’s blue container for years, but experts warn that it may not have the effects many people think it does

By ECONEWS
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August 18, 2026 at 4:17 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
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
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