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

Water scarcity in Luxembourg

'As a society, we need to understand just how precious water really is'

Partial Solar Eclipse over Eislek

Solar Eclipse Day 2026

Get ready to watch it safely

Heat-linked mortality

Heatwaves cause spike in deaths across Luxembourg and Europe

US' single largest emission source?

Amazon behind massive private gas plant for new data centers

Wildfires like this blaze on Vancouver Island in 2025 are an increasing threat in Canada, where plaintiffs in a lawsuit argue the window for climate action is closing

'We're going to have to live with this'

Canada tries to adapt to a future of wildfires

Controversial breakthrough

US researchers use AI to design working viruses for the first time

Celestial events

Mr Science explains the upcoming solar eclipse

Experts at Chilbolton Observatory monitor UK-licenced satellites and ever-growing fragments of space debris swirling around them

'The whole environment is changing'

UK observatory nervously watches growing space junk threat

Butterflies are adapting to climate change by adjusting the geographic range where they live and breed.

In search of cooler conditions

Butterflies seek new habitats as climate changes: study

People walk on a dirt track between dry fields, turned brown from the heat of the sun near Guildford, southwest of London

'Sunniest month ever observed'

England, Wales had driest July on record: Met Office

Greece grapples with a succession of wildfires that have scorched thousands of hectares of forest, scrubland and farmland

Succession of massive wildfires

Greece wildfire expert says season 'one of the worst' in a decade

South Korea introduced a new warning system for high temperatures in July

New temperature records around

South Korea baseball league cancels two games over heatwave

Moon and Milky Way in Hosingen

A month between shadows

The August night sky in Luxembourg

One fire raged through forestland near the southern resort of Fethiye

Battling strong winds

High winds hamper firefighting efforts in western Turkey

The partially dried-up river bed of the Rhine pictured in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on July 28, 2026, following exceptionally hot weather

Consequences for Germany's industries

Alarm over climate-linked low level of German waterways

A volunteer rests amid operations to tackle a wildfire in Fethiye, southwest Turkey

Gathering strength

Turkey battles wind-fuelled wildfires on tourist coasts

Italy's northern regions of Piedmont and Lombardy already face water supply difficulties

Home of country's longest river

Italy's Po River valley on drought alert

Fire ravaged forests near Villa del Prado in Spain

'Difficult days'

France, Spain eye wildfire reprieve as other blazes start up in Europe

The fire south of the city of Rethymno had forced officials to evacuate some 8,000 people overnight

Thousands of evacuations

Firefighters battle to contain deadly Crete blaze in Greece

Nature and Forest Agency

Luxembourg's forests at risk due to drought and high temperatures

The blaze has since Wednesday last week ravaged 42,000 hectares of pine forest -- an area larger than Detroit

Driven by climate change

Southern Europe 'becoming more flammable' in hotter climate, experts say

Ferry services between Romania and Bulgaria are temporarily suspended in two areas

River dropped to record low

Mammoth bones found on parched bed of Danube in Bulgaria

Fourth heatwave

Is summer 2026 a foretaste of things to come?

The image is the first ever captured of an elusive companion star orbiting Betelgeuse

'Conclusion of a century-long quest'

First image taken of Betelgeuse's elusive companion star

One million animals -- including antelopes -- migrate through the South Sudanese site each year, leaving scars visible from the sky

First such listing

UN lists South Sudan antelope route as heritage in danger

France has evacuated thousands from tourist areas

Human-caused climate change

What are 'fire clouds', the ominous phenomenon seen in France?

Pallas's cat kittens, a species considered to be the world's oldest living feline, are seen in their enclosure at Kobe Animal Kingdom

One of the oldest living cat species

'Grumpy' Pallas kittens on display at Japan zoo

A juvenile humpback whale washed ashore after dying from domoic acid poisoning in Monterey Bay -- a sign of the ill effects of a marine heat wave in California

Negative changes to marine ecosystem

Whales at risk, hungry pelicans: Marine heat wave hits California

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