Bringing you; the weekly, positive, and Green related articles and more. Happy Summer. Hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and well. https://ecofriend.com/why-green-spaces-matter-more-than-ever-in-cities.html German scientists have managed to convert up to 31.3% of sunlight directly into hydrogen, a number that puts the race for clean fuel from nothing but sun and chemistry on a whole new level – ECOticias.com An agricultural town in Australia has jobs, factories, and a desire to grow, but it lacks the most basic necessity: Housing for its employees, and now it wants to solve this problem with 3D-printed homes – ECOticias.com A new study says linking solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with direct current could save up to 16.7% on electricity, and the trick is avoiding invisible conversions happening inside the home – ECOticias.com Pilot hits new EV milestone with 300th DC fast charging location This 6 passenger, 780-mile PHEV from GM is ready for America LiuGong brings electric heavy equipment options to North America Honda goes all-in on EVs in a multibillion dollar market Portable Power Station vs Generator: Which to Buy in 2026 5 Laptop Backpack Deals Worth Carrying This July - The Gadgeteer Best Ergonomic Mice for Wrist Pain (From $19 to $60) The Bike Tool That Handles Everything Except a Flat
Part 2 Texas engineers created a jacket capable of extracting up to 900 milliliters of drinking water per day directly from the air, an invention that sounds like science fiction for surviving a drier future – ECOticias.com Erin Brockovich is once again tied to an environmental fight against a utility company, and the case inevitably recalls the battle that turned her into a symbol of citizen resistance – ECOticias.com In Patagonia, researchers found three petrified forests about 50 million years old, a stunning window into an ancient landscape that was much greener, wetter, and stranger than southern Argentina today – ECOticias.com Perseverance looked at Mars again with a panorama built from dozens of images, and the result leaves a strange feeling: the Red Planet looks empty, but every rock may be saying something – ECOticias.com Toyota offers $3,000 to trade in your old EV for its new electric SUV In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany Mick Murray's hybrid haulers move more freight with fewer fumes Kia EV2 Long Range goes on sale with 281 miles of range California Approves Up to $3,500 Rebate for First-Time EV Buyers | PCMag This is the first site I visit when my tech breaks | PCWorld Don’t Watch the Clock When You Can’t Sleep (and Focus on This Instead) | Lifehacker How Long Can You Actually Go Without Sleep? | Lifehacker
Part 3 A 5.3-million-year-old whale cemetery appeared 7,000 meters deep in the Indian Ocean, an almost impossible scene that seems to tell a marine tragedy from the deep past – ECOticias.com The mystery of Mars’ missing water just got stranger: scientists think part of its ancient atmosphere and moisture may have been trapped for 3 billion years inside minerals on the Red Planet – ECOticias.com Archaeologists discovered an Inca citadel four times larger than Machu Picchu’s urban core, with hundreds of structures and thousands of artifacts that could rewrite a huge part of the Andean map – ECOticias.com In Santa Cruz, scientists found a 150-million-year-old fossil plant with such rare preservation that it seems to freeze a piece of the plant world that existed when dinosaurs ruled Earth – ECOticias.com Volvo delivers first EX60 EVs, a game changer with 500+ mi range Range Rover Sport Electric makes first public appearance [Images] CATL's 30-year sodium-ion battery takes over grid storage | Electrek Solar just became Europe's biggest source of electricity – here's the milestone it hit | Electrek Watch a Mad Scientist YouTuber Make Lightning in a Bottle From Mercury and Neon Anker Solix S2000 Review: The Little 2kWh Battery That Could This New Process Turns Plastic Trash Into Clean Fuel Instead of Pollution Scientists Detect First Atmosphere on Rocky Habitable-Zone Planet, Boosting Hopes for Alien Life
Part 4 Beneath Hagia Sophia, a tunnel more than 160 meters long appeared alongside ancient water channels, an underground clue showing that Istanbul still keeps hidden chapters below one of its most famous monuments – ECOticias.com At El Tigre in Petén, a unique and well-preserved circular structure has emerged: a Maya discovery with a ritual feel that reminds us how much mystery is still hidden beneath the Guatemalan jungle – ECOticias.com Italian teenagers followed a rumor that something was hidden beneath their school gym and ended up helping reveal a 1,800-year-old luxury Roman house near the Colosseum – ECOticias.com Perseverance has driven 42.195 kilometers across Mars, a marathon distance on another planet, and with that record it keeps searching for signs of ancient life among rocks that have stayed silent for billions of years – ECOticias.com Hyundai IONIQ 5 N EV gets a $6,300 price cut and new features Hyundai opens $5B battery plant in push for America's #2 EV brand Volkswagen's new affordable EV SUV debuts with 265 miles range Electric thunder down under: Volvo FH Electric gets to work https://www.extremetech.com/science/amateur-astronomer-thinks-fast-preserves-meteorite-with-evidence-of-early https://www.extremetech.com/science/bioprinting-in-space-could-finally-allow-the-synthesis-of-complex-tissues NASA Shares Beautiful Timelapse Of The Psyche Spacecraft's View Over Mars Chinese Solar Company Says Its New Cell Has An Efficiency Of 35.5 Percent
Part 5 After decades of dams, diversions, and drought, the Colorado River will once again flow into the Sea of Cortez—a scene many believed was lost and that is seen almost as a historic return of the water. – ECOticias.com The Chattahoochee River has gone from smelling like sewage and mud to featuring parks, trails, and kayaks, but the death of more than 44,000 fish has served as a reminder that its recovery remains fragile – ECOticias.com Artificial intelligence has just read a papyrus scroll carbonized by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, without opening or destroying it, and every recovered word feels like a secret doorway into a Roman library trapped by fire – ECOticias.com Tlaxcala surprised everyone with its own solar-powered electric car, priced at less than 100,000 pesos: a locally manufactured vehicle that promises up to 250 kilometers of range and a rather outlandish idea—partially recharging using sunlight. – ECOticias.com ChargePoint is bringing ultra-fast EV chargers to 12 busy highway travel plazas | Electrek Aptera announces nationwide repair network for its upcoming solar electric car Toyota now ranks among the top 5 EV sellers in the US US EV fast charging has entered 'Charging 2.0' – here's what that means | Electrek Astronomers Found the First Atmosphere on a Planet in Another Star's Habitable Zone - CNET Siri AI vs. Old Siri on Apple Watch: It Wasn't Even Close - CNET 3D-Printed, Customized Contact Lenses Are Possible, and Can Be Made in 20 Minutes - CNET We Don’t Have a Clean Indoor Air Act. Are Air Purifiers the Answer? - CNET
Part 6 Scientists have just discovered a new mammal in Argentina, and the most interesting thing is that it wasn’t lost in a remote jungle, but less than 81 miles from Córdoba – ECOticias.com Costa Rica has just added a “ghost shark” to its biodiversity, but this one doesn’t live on beaches or reefs: it was hiding at depths of between 1,280 and 2,580 feet in the Pacific Ocean – ECOticias.com Barcelona wants to turn a random street into a climate laboratory by 2027 using asphalt made from olive pits and pine waste, which could reduce CO2 emissions from the top layer by up to 75% – ECOticias.com Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle – ECOticias.com EV sales are normalizing in the US – and HUGE everywhere else California's new $3,500 EV rebate favors Rivian and Lucid over Tesla | Electrek Tesla Semi adds another fleet as Paper Transport starts Chicago pilot | Electrek Hyundai's EV hatch starts at $30K, and interest is already sky-high MIT's 250-Gram Puffin Robot Swims Underwater, Then Flies Ultra-Thin Power Banks: Best Slim Magnetic Chargers What The Leaf Icon On Google Maps Really Means (And Why It Confuses So Many Users) California's MyFirstEV Provides A $3,500 Instant Rebate To First-Time Buyers
Part 7 A student from Nuevo Laredo noticed something that we all see but that almost no one pays attention to: the water dripping from the air conditioner. She turned it into HidroAC+, a system for growing plants in a city where temperatures can exceed 104 °F for months on end – ECOticias.com For years, he watched as bottles, furniture, and plastic floated past the back of his house, as if the river were a floating landfill, until this Brazilian father built a homemade barrier that has already removed more than 40 metric tons of trash – ECOticias.com Brazil is nearing completion of an “artificial river” nearly 145 kilometers long in Ceará, a large-scale project that is already 92% complete and promises to bring water to communities where drought has been a constant for generations – ECOticias.com At 4,100 feet underground, in an old gold mine in South Dakota, some extremely rare microbes could do something amazing: turn CO2 from factories into solid rock – ECOticias.com Do Walking Pads Do Anything for Your Fitness? I Tested 2 to Find Out - CNET Vanlife: Vantrack promises a Kia PV5 camper you can actually buy Drive Faster Than the Speed Limit? You'll Want to Read This Princesses in Ancient Egypt Weren’t Just Royalty—They Were Trained Archers 11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto A Missing Black Hole Was Found Hiding in a Giant Star Cluster. Astronomers Think There Could Be Thousands More The Most Expensive Dinosaur Fossil in History Is Now a T. Rex Named Gus Weird Mountains on Pluto's Largest Moon Charon Reveal a Surprising Past
Part 8 It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds – ECOticias.com These Look Like Ordinary X-Rays. They're Not Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas These Fire-Spotting Satellites Could Find Wildfires Before They Become Disasters Astronomers Detect Sugar in Interstellar Space for the First Time That Thing You've Heard About Baby Rattlesnakes? It's Wrong China’s Tianwen-2 Reaches Earth’s Quasi-Moon and Prepares to Grab a Sample
