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Science & Environment

Coverage of scientific research and breakthroughs, environmental issues, and health.

Delegates cheered as the crucial texts were approved in overtime

Nations commit to get nature goals back on track

Workers lay coconut-fibre bags next to oyster shells on a breakwater at Pamarawan Island in Malolos City, in the Philippines Bulacan province

Weakening waves

Philippine island fights rising seas with nature, not concrete

The UN biodiversity negotiations have entered their final week in Yerevan, Armenia

EU pushes for more nations to pay to protect nature

The UN biodiversity summit in Armenia is taking stock of progress toward a global pledge for nature made in 2022.

Historic nature pact

Nations far from a deal as UN nature talks enter final stretch

The Sibang botanical garden acts a museum for Gabon's rich plant life

Earth's 'green lung'

Botanists comb Gabon's rich rainforests with nature on the line

Smallest bird in Europe

Goldcrest voted Luxembourg's bird of the year for 2027

Artist impression of a spacecraft closely approaching an asteroid.

After the impact

Luxembourg’s role in ESA’s Hera mission

Maine's lobster operations -- trap hauling, boat transport, food processing and restaurant sales -- comprise a billion-dollar industry that has come under threat from high fuel prices, shifting tariffs and climate change Lobstermen arrive in the harbor after a morning at sea in Portland, Maine on October 12, 2026.

Trapped: Soaring fuel costs hurt Maine lobster industry before midterms

Ursula von der Leyen la présidente de la Commission européenne est accompagnée du chef du gouvernement groenlandais Jens-Frederik Nielsen et de la Première ministre danoise Mette Frederiksen au Groenland le 6 septembre 2026

'Strong and reliable partner'

EU unveils new Arctic strategy in face of US, Russia threats

This photo taken on October 9, 2026 shows an aerial view of a house fitted with solar panels in Rukurukulevu village on the coast of Fiji's Nadroga-Navosa province. As fuel prices rise, some in the village are turning to solar to move away from dependence on the national grid.

Rush for renewables

Middle East fuel crunch drives solar push in tiny Fiji

At a cattle market in El Salvador, malnourished animals are mere skin and bones due to a drought fueled by El Nino

Devastating effects

El Nino Watch: the impacts around the world this week

Commercial deep-sea mining seeks to harvest potato-sized "polymetallic nodules" containing cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese

First in United States' history

US to auction deep sea mining leases off American Samoa

Armenia is hosting the UN COP17 biodiversity talks in its capital Yerevan.

Nations urged to curb harmful subsidies at UN nature summit

Cosmic Myth Buster

Do our zodiac signs really decide who we are?

Toxic haze has covered parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for weeks as Jakarta struggles to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Borneo and Sumatra

Regional pollution crisis

In Malaysia, frustration grows over Indonesia haze

UN chief Antonio Guterres says the world must redouble efforts to meet its nature pledges.

Falling short of biodiversity commitments

UN chief urges nations to end 'war on nature'

Shell's Brazil subsidiary was sued by independent federal prosecutors and an NGO over its alleged responsbility for devastating 2024 floods in Brazil

A look at the details

Why is Shell facing lawsuits over climate disasters in Brazil and the Philippines?

A new lab study by scientists at Stanford University finds that simply placing healthy, colorful coral in contact with their bleached counterparts is enough to bring the dying ones back from the brink

'Helping hands'

Healthy corals help bleached neighbors regain color: study

D'Nordliichter e Samschdegowend vum Rébierg a Richtung Kooler.

Colourful night skies

Northern lights unlikely to return to Luxembourg soon

Conceptual illustration of Saturn and the icy particles that make up its rings.

Secrets in the ice

What Saturn’s rings are hiding

FIRST Global Challenge

Luxembourg students win historic silver at robotics 'Olympics' in South Korea

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai solved a century-old chemical mystery

French-Japanese duo wins chemistry Nobel for solving molecular 'mystery'

This undated handout photograph released by The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on 11 July 2019 shows Margaret Hamilton, a member of Draper Laboratory Staff at work during the Apollo missions.

'Computing pioneer'

Margaret Hamilton, scientist who worked on NASA's Apollo program, dead at 90

Renewables are growing but fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy

Tempered expectations

Fossil fuels off COP31 agenda as global output keeps rising

Green turtles have made the rare jump from endangered to 'least concern' in global conservation rankings

Wildlife preservation

As species decline, green turtles offer glimmer of hope

The chinstrap penguin population of a volcanic island near Antarctica has fallen by two thirds.

Two-thirds decimated

Climate change strips island's title of largest penguin colony: study

Japanese Nobel laureate Kenso Soai spoke to reporters in Tokyo

Series of advances

From 1800s to modern pharma: a Nobel-winning chemistry quest

Francis Halzen said AI helped researchers 'see the Milky Way' in their data on neutrinos

Dispruptive technology

Nobel physics winner's pride at pioneering AI role

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