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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.

Thermal image of triangular aircraft spotted over Area 51 on January 14 2026

On January 14, 2026, a “triangle” without lights is captured over Area 51, and the shadow matches the mysterious sightings of 2014

By Adrian Villellas
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March 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Exterior of a Wendy’s restaurant in the United States amid plans to close hundreds of underperforming locations.

Wendy’s plans to close between 200 and 350 restaurants in the US

By ECONEWS
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March 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
F-35 fighter jet in flight as the United States pressures Canada over its 88 aircraft purchase and the future of NORAD.

US ambassador Pete Hoekstra warns NORAD “would have to be altered” if Canada drops its purchase of 88 F-35s

By ECONEWS
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February 27, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency radar facility under the northern lights in the Arctic

The United States grew tired of the northern lights “blinding” its radars and in 2026 launched FROSTY, a DARPA plan to turn that Arctic noise into its new surveillance weapon

By ECONEWS
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February 26, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Ukrainian technicians inspect the wreckage of a Geran-5 drone, revealing foreign electronic components inside

A Geran-5 is shot down, and what Ukraine finds inside looks like a kind of military globalization: a Chinese TELEFLY turbojet engine, carbon fiber, and foreign chips in a drone carrying a 90 kg payload

By ECONEWS
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February 26, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Construction work at Rota Naval Base as Spain prepares facilities for the new F-110 frigates.

“They’re not ships, they’re floating brains”: why the Spanish Navy is redesigning an entire naval base so that the F-110s, valued at more than 4.3 billion, can operate without limits from 2026 onwards

By ECONEWS
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February 25, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Excavation site in Riyadh where Saudi Arabia halted construction of the Mukaab mega cube project in New Murabba.

Saudi Arabia suspends the Mukaab, the 400-meter cube planned for Riyadh’s New Murabba district

By ECONEWS
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February 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Bowl of plain yogurt topped with fruit and granola on a breakfast table

Thousands of people do it without thinking twice, but eating yogurt every day has real effects on health, and not all of them are positive, according to experts

By ECONEWS
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February 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Handwritten note showing mixed uppercase and lowercase letters within the same word

Mixing capital and lowercase letters in handwriting: what psychologists and handwriting experts say it can reflect

By ECONEWS
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February 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A newborn baby is held in a hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, shortly after birth.

Colombia has just broken all traditional family patterns with a statistic that surprises even Europe: 87% of babies are born outside of marriage, and this is only the beginning

By ECONEWS
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February 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Portrait of a famous theoretical physicist in a wheelchair, warning humanity must expand into space to survive 1,000 years

Stephen Hawking, scientist: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”

By Adrian Villellas
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February 17, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Interior of a private VIP bunker with a living area, seating, dining table, and kitchenette designed for emergency shelter.

Private bunker demand jumps in Spain, with VIP shelters costing up to $415,000

By ECONEWS
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February 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Moai statues standing along an ancient road on Rapa Nui, where researchers say the figures were moved upright

For centuries, we believed that the moai statues were dragged until they destroyed the island… now science says that they walked, and history changes completely

By Adrian Villellas
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February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Satellite image showing Russian Tor M2 air defense system at the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus

Satellite images show what Belarus is doing near the border

By Adrian Villellas
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February 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Red fox and hedgehog eating from a bowl of cat food in a garden at night in Dietlikon, Switzerland.

A neighbor installs cameras in his garden in Dietlikon and films a red fox and a hedgehog sharing the same bowl of cat food in a garden while fireworks explode

By ECONEWS
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February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Researchers stand on a rocky slope in northeast Greenland after a fossil field expedition on Ymer Island near Mount Celsius.

A Pole reveals what Greenland has to offer. “Our legs literally buckled with excitement”

By ECONEWS
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February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Close-up of an ancient coin edge held between fingers from the Anglesey Iron Age gold hoard, later declared treasure.

A metal detectorist found two gold coins in a quiet field in Anglesey, returned another day and then another, until the field began to tell a story that no one in Wales had seen before

By Adrian Villellas
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February 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier sails at sea with fighter jets on deck during an extended deployment.

More than 200 days at sea since June 2025, and the admiral admits that the USS Gerald R. Ford is under more pressure than ever before

By ECONEWS
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February 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Gold coins arranged in rows on a white background.

The Traveller Collection: 15,000 coins hidden from the Nazis go to auction, insured for more than $100 million

By Adrian Villellas
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January 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Multi-level treehouse built around a tall tree in a forest, with a wooden spiral staircase and shingled, cabin-like exterior.

A man spent months in silence in the forest and built a multi-level tree house with his own hands, complete with a spiral staircase, tin roofs, and finishes worthy of a luxury cabin… without anyone’s help

By Adrian Villellas
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January 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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