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

Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey says that the best part of COP is meeting other activists - and ignoring the policymakers

Young people are rising up

Top Nigerian environmentalist sees little coming out of COP30

Commuters drive amid heavy smog in New Delhi on October 21, 2025, as haze engulfed the city skyline after Diwali celebrations

Ahead of planned rollout

India trials Delhi cloud seeding to combat deadly smog

Tensions between the EU's desire to play a starring role in the fight against global warming and to boost its sluggish economy have come to a head

Charting a way forward

EU leaders lay out conditions for emissions target deal

Pump jacks operate at dusk near Loco Hills on April 23, 2020 in Eddy County, New Mexico

Due to subsidies

US oil giants produce mainly at home but send more tax dollars overseas

This handout picture provided by Shedd Aquarium shows a dying thicket of Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral) in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, on 11 September, 2023, with some branches completely bleached and others having already died

Declining since the '70s

'Functionally extinct': Heat wave left Florida coral species on brink

The company changed its name from Total to TotalEnergies to emphasise its clean energy investments

Potential legal precedent

French court convicts TotalEnergies over misleading climate claims

A worker holds a plastic nurdle which washed up at Vilar beach in Corrubedo, northwestern Spain, in 2024

Building blocks of plastic products

EU parliament adopts curbs on plastic pellet pollution

The Airbus site in Toulouse, France, where the merged European satellite group will be based

Leading aerospace groups combine

Europe plans satellite powerhouse to rival Musk's Starlink

A vendor cuts meat at a pork stall at a local traditional market in Keelung. Taiwan has culled dozens of pigs after detecting its first cases of African swine fever

Measures imposed swiftly

Taiwan detects first cases of swine fever

Fossil fuel companies have been criticised for their environmental claims

Under legal attack

Oil and gas majors stick to their guns on climate advertising

Some endangered species

S.Africa seeks to save birds from wind turbine risks

Malaysian experts and officials admit that resources fall far short of what is needed to protect the country's famed big cat, listed as critically endangered

National animal

Tigers in trouble as Malaysian big cat numbers dwindle

Antonio Guterres said overshooting the 1.5C target was now inevitable

Antonio Guterres

Overshooting 1.5C climate target 'inevitable': UN chief

The Los Angeles wildfires were likely the costliest in history, with insured losses reaching an estimated $60 billion, according to a climate disasters database

Billions in damages

Scrapped by Trump, revived US climate-disaster database reveals record losses

UN chief Antonio Guterres and US President Donald Trump are on opposite sides of the global climate debate

UN chief calls for 'fight' against climate disinformation

Tunisian city on general strike over factory pollution

The vets took sperm from Baruto, an Amur leopard, to inseminate Khala

Breeding programme

Artificial insemination raises hopes for world's rarest big cat

NGOs argue that airlines should have emission warnings on ads, like the health warnings for tobacco and alcohol

Amid greenwashing trials

European airlines drop vague promises on carbon offsets

Since the project began, roughly 340,000 images have passed through the lab.

Fragile reminders

After deadly floods, Spaniards fight to save photos

Total rebranded to TotalEnergies in 2021 to emphasise its diversification into wind turbines and solar panels

Overstating climate pledges

Paris verdict due in TotalEnergies 'greenwashing' case

Industrial plastic pellets washed up on a Catalonian beach in 2024

Light, buoyant, and insoluble

EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup

French mountaineers Benjamin Vedrines and Nicolas Jean make their way to the summit of Jannu East in Nepal

Sidewards, not upwards

Nepal's 'hidden' mountains draw new wave of climbers

Borneo island is home to orangutans, long-nosed monkeys, clouded leopards, pig-tailed macaques, flying fox-bats and the smallest rhinos on the planet

Amid legislation postponement

EU timber imports linked to deforestation on Indonesia's Borneo: NGOs

No snow, no problem: Biathletes on rollerskates compete in the

Athletes swap skis for skates in a glimpse of winter sport's future

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has come under fire from conservationists who argue his oil expansion plans clash with his image as a global leader on climate change

'Massive biodiversity loss'

Brazil greenlights oil drilling in sensitive Amazon region

The Valencia floods killed 237 people, making them Spain's worst natural disaster in a generation

Rain as a painful reminder

One year on, Spain's flood survivors rebuild and remember

New Delhi and its sprawling metropolitan region are regularly ranked among the world's most polluted capitals

16 times recommended pollution limit

Toxic haze chokes Indian capital

Ruth Deidree Boelan prays for her relatives who went missing in recent flooding when their home on a riverbank collapsed

Worst in a decade

Flood reckoning for Bali on overdevelopment, waste

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