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Science & Environment

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

'How Do We Know?' and 'Cosmic Myth Buster'

Two new RTL Today columns put cosmic claims to the test

North Atlantic right whales would be one of the main species threatened by new changes to the Endangered Species Act

To 'cut the heart out of the ESA'

Trump admin makes major cut to endangered species protections

An artist’s rendering of a rover on the lunar surface.

Space exploration

Luxembourg-led MAGPIE set to become Europe's first rover on the Moon

Urinal researchers wore yellow raincoats to collect their award for studying splashback

Stranger than fiction

Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

An American weighs magic mushrooms at a 'psychedelic church' in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Natural psychedelic

US study tests psilocybin to fight cancer side effects

Scientists agree that global warming increases the risk of extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts and floods.

First-of-its-kind assessment

World must prepare for 'reality' of missing 1.5C goal: UN

Scientists say that global warming is accelerating the loss of mountain glaciers, which can trigger devastating events.

Devastating events

Melting glaciers an 'immediate' climate risk: author of UN report

A man takes a break in midtown Manhattan during a heat wave in New York City on July 3, 2026

What you need to know

What's next after judge strikes down New York's landmark climate fund law

This year's El Nino weather phenomenon has been blamed for warming sea surface temperatures

Sparking unemployment crisis

El Nino hammering Peru anchovy fishing: industry officials

Built to survey the universe

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope explained

Darkness returns

The September night sky in Luxembourg

Revolutionary process

US scientists bake edible biscuits from plastic waste

The flooding has killed at least 584 people and left more than 2,400 missing

What the scientists say

Does the Nepal glacier collapse signal a new climate risk?

Global warming has hit salmon and trout in chalk streams like the Itchen in southern England

Ecological balance threatened

Climate change hits trout and salmon in UK's prized chalk streams

A rich collection of living and fossilized corals is present in the Galapagos Islands, the volcanic archipelago off the west coast of Ecuador, right at the heart of the eastern Pacific El Nino zone.

Major implications

Corals show El Nino intensifying as planet warms: study

Fading in the dawn

A deep lunar eclipse is coming to Luxembourg

Eng partiell Mounddäischtert ass e Freideg z'observéieren

Weather-permitting

Partial lunar eclipse over Europe set for Friday morning

Indonesia's long, intense dry season has fed wildfires that have burned hundreds of thousands of hectares -- extreme weather around the world could intensify, with El Nino on track to be the strongest on record in 2026

Extreme weather risk

What a record-breaking El Nino could mean for the world

Climate change could triple area hit by European wildfires: study

The Total Culzean platform in the North Sea, about 45 miles (70 kilometres) east of the Aberdeen, pictured on Scotland's northeast coast in April 2019

Labour Party divided

North Sea drilling tests UK govt climate pledge

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope was launched in 2004, and was originally designed for a two-year mission

$30 million assignment

NASA satellite rescue mission fails

Lake Geneva, seen here during a bike race, has been maintained by glacier melt

Lake Zurich sees water level hit record low amid drought

When satellites fill the sky

Who owns the night?

Blue crabs arrived in the Mediterranean decades ago to wreak havoc in Italy's clam-producing northeast

'A formidable predator'

Italian scientists bet on octopus to fight crab invasion

Narwhals have nature's only straight tusk, which grows through their upper lip

Up to three meters long

Scientists discover how narwhals grow nature's only straight tusk

Conservationists warn AI visuals of wild animals make it harder for people to discern what is real

Feel-good fiction or dangerous misinformation?

'People could get hurt': Conservationists decry AI wildlife visuals

Lyme disease is the most common illness transmitted by ticks

World's most common tick-borne illness

EU to study potential vaccine for Lyme disease: companies

The mystery affliction has killed at least 19 elephants, mostly females or young males, since June in Kenya

At least 19 dead

'How many will die?': the mysterious ailment killing Kenyan elephants

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