Economy

Rows of residential rooftop solar panels installed in a dense urban neighborhood in the Philippines to combat rising utility costs.

The Philippines has become the world’s largest buyer of solar panels since the start of the conflict involving Iran, and the reason is not just the climate, but also fear of the next bill

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July 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A section of industrial pipeline traversing the Alaskan landscape, representing the scale of the proposed $50 billion Alaska LNG project.

A confidential document just revealed the real terms behind one of the world’s largest planned gas pipelines in Alaska

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July 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
An aerial view of a Canadian nuclear power facility, highlighting the scale of reactor infrastructure needed for the grid expansion.

Canada wants up to 10 new nuclear reactors in 15 years, betting on an old design to reshape its grid

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July 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A high-speed rail construction site in California's Central Valley showing completed guideway and ongoing infrastructure development.

California’s bullet train is no longer the project voters approved in 2008, and the gap keeps getting wider

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July 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Federal agents and local law enforcement monitor airspace near the FIFA World Cup fan festival in downtown Miami to enforce no-fly zones.

The FBI and Homeland Security visited two Miami creators after a drone flight over a FIFA no-fly zone

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July 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A panoramic aerial view of the Tanbreez rare earth mining site in southern Greenland, highlighting the region's rugged Arctic landscape.

The rare-earth race is moving to Greenland, and the minerals that matter most are still the ones China controls

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June 28, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Massive concrete blocks being positioned by cranes along the Faroz Port breakwater to shield fishing vessels from Black Sea storm surges.

Turkey is placing 5,000 concrete blocks weighing 21 metric tons each in the Black Sea to build a breakwater capable of withstanding five-meter waves following the latest historic floods

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June 28, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A student demonstrating a hydroponic garden system that collects and treats condensation from an air conditioning unit to water plants.

A Mexican student turned air-conditioner runoff into water for crops, linking extreme heat to food production in a simple system

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June 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A wide shot of a hydroelectric dam facility in British Columbia, symbolizing the province's reliance on clean power.

BC Hydro is quietly looking for gas contracts, and the move exposes the harder side of the clean-power shortage

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June 26, 2026 at 9:30 AM
An aerial view of the Three Gorges Dam facility with construction equipment visible for the new five-tier ship lock expansion project.

China has started building the world’s largest river lock on the Yangtze, a 10-year project meant to break the Three Gorges cargo bottleneck

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June 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A sleek, foldable two-story modular steel container house being assembled on a residential plot.

Goodbye to rent: Chinese steel prefab homes with six rooms are selling online ready to live in for less than $14,000

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June 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A diagram illustrating the solution mining process used to create underground salt caverns for storing crude oil in the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

America keeps emergency oil inside underground salt caverns, and the hidden reserve really matters when markets panic

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June 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM
An undersea data center module being submerged off the coast of Shanghai to utilize natural seawater cooling.

China put a 24-MW data center under the sea, and the reason is not storage, but keeping AI servers cool without burning more power

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June 22, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A digital rendering of the Arklow Bank Wind Park 2 layout off the coast of Ireland, showing the proposed offshore turbine distribution.

Arklow Bank Wind Park 2 is changing its offshore design, and the redesign shows how wind farms keep moving after approval battles

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June 21, 2026 at 6:45 PM
An aerial view of the Tanbreez project site in southern Greenland, representing a strategic shift in global rare earth supply chains.

The rare-earth race is moving to Greenland, and the minerals that matter most are still the ones China controls

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June 20, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A Royal Navy Astute-class submarine moored at a naval facility during a period of maintenance and repair.

A British attack submarine enters repairs, and the timing exposes how fragile underwater readiness has become for NATO navies

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June 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The experimental U.S. Navy stealth vessel Sea Shadow (IX-529) docked in the Hughes Mining Barge (HMB-1).

Eighteen Sea Shadow stealth ships could have protected the US carrier fleet, and the abandoned idea now looks strangely modern

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June 18, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A U.S. Navy Virginia-class attack submarine conducting sea trials.

Australia walked away from French submarines for a US deal, but the first boats it may get are older than the promise itself

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June 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The Super Heavy booster during the Starship Flight 12 launch mission as it approaches the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX’s Raptor 3 was meant to fix Starship’s reliability problem, but several engines quit less than 20 seconds into boostback

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June 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A massive steel anchor cage assembly being prepared for transport to the Uungula Wind Farm site.

Wind farm breathes life into local manufacturing as last of 69 massive steel cages are sent to site, and the consequence is bigger than the first headline suggests 

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June 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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