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

Some of Taft's 7,000 residents are anticipating a comeback for the petroleum industry in California

Make oil great again

California's oil capital hopes for a renaissance under Trump

China is installing solar and wind power at a rate that outstrips the rest of the world combined

Booming industries

China's power paradox: record renewables, continued coal

Chen Ning Yang,who won the Nobel Prize for physics, has died in China aged 103

Scientist and recipient of Physics Nobel Prize

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang dies aged 103: Chinese state media

Countries voted in April for a global pricing system to curb carbon emissions from shipping

After Trump threats

US sinks international deal on decarbonising ships

Parkinson’s experts gather at the University of Luxembourg

10 years of NCER-PD

Luxembourg research team advances Parkinson’s prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

The London-based IMO, which is the shipping body of the United Nations, voted in April for a global pricing system to help curb maritime carbon emissions

Global pricing system

US sinks international deal on decarbonising ships

An aerial view of the flooded town of Tlacotepec in Mexico's Hidalgo state

Areas remain disconnected

Mexican national Guard aids towns isolated by flood that killed 70

Sixteen brain organoids, connected to electrodes, inside an incubator at the lab of Swiss start-up FinalSpark

Cannot be rebooted

'Wetware': Scientists use human mini-brains to power computers

Brazilian sailor Tamara Klink poses on her sailboat 'Sardinha 2' as she completed her trip through the Northwest Passage

No icebreaker required

'Less and less sea ice': Brazil woman sails solo through Arctic

Wildfires fuelled by climate change have driven a rise in global greenhouse emissions

Climate change fans the flames

'Bigger, hotter, faster': extreme blazes drive rise in CO2 fire emissions

Last week an adult bear entered a supermarket in Numata, Gunma, north of Tokyo

'Largest toll since 2006'

Fatal bear attacks in Japan hit record number

The almost complete skeleton of the small long-necked reptile, named

Andes Mountains

One of world's oldest dinosaurs discovered in Argentina

Each winter, Delhi is blanketed in acrid smog, a toxic mix of crop-burning, factory emissions and choking traffic

India's pollution refugees fleeing Delhi's toxic air

Rainforests in Australia's northern tropics are no longer acting as net carbon sinks, according to new research.

'Very concerning' trend

Australian rainforests no longer a carbon sink: study

The implosion of the Titan submersible in 2023 killed all five passengers onboard

US agency blames faulty engineering for Titanic sub disaster

A court ruled that while youth plaintiffs had presented 'overwhelming' evidence the administration's actions would further destabilize the climate, their case 'must be made to the political branches or to the electorate'

Fossil fuel expansion

Judge 'reluctantly' tosses youth case challenging Trump climate policies

The jump in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year is the highest ever recorded, according to the UN

Biggest one-year jump

CO2 in the atmosphere up by record amount in 2024: UN

Quorn, in central England, was flooded after heavy snow and rain in January

Current efforts not enough

Climate advisers warn UK to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

India is home to the majority of the world's remaining wild Asian elephants, like this herd bathing in Assam

Already endangered

Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population

China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and will determine the planet's climate change trajectory

Prosecutors, not activists

In China, climate litigation starts with the state

Republicans are moving to block what they describe as 'lawfare against the energy industry'

'They have no shame'

US Republicans seek to shield oil giants as climate lawsuits advance

Brazil, India, Italy and Japan have vowed to dramatically increase production and consumption of renewable fuels ahead of the UN's planned climate summit in Belem, Brazil

Brazil, other nations agree to quadruple sustainable fuels

Washington has threatened to sanction countries supporting a UN plan to cut maritime emissions

Net Zero Framework

China, EU stand firm on shipping emission deal despite US threats

Anti-drone measures are being tested at a former Soviet airfield in eastern Germany

An increasing challenge

At secluded German airport, researchers tackle tricky drone defence

SpaceX's Starship rocket 38 launches during the 11th test flight on October 13, 2025 as seen from South Padre Island in Texas

Amid concerns of over-promises

SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on successful test flight

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) talks to Petrobras President Magda Chambriard

Can oil pay for its own demise?

Black gold, green promises: Brazil's climate paradox

Globally, deforestation is driven overwhelmingly by the expansion of agriculture.

Ahead of UN climate summit

Global goal to end deforestation nowhere near being met: experts

Brazil is expecting 50,000 people to attend the UN COP30 climate summit in Belem

Much-hyped summit

Brazil hopes Amazon summit can unite world for climate action

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