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

The claims were brought on behalf of 1.6 million motorists against 14 carmakers

Rocked auto industry for a decade

Massive UK dieselgate lawsuit reaches court

Death toll risen sharply

At least 64 dead, 65 missing in Mexico floods

Scientists camped out high on a glacier in Tajikistan to take the ice core samples

'Karakoram anomaly'

Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistance

At least 44 people have died due to floods and landslides in Mexico in October 2025

Caused by seasonal shift & cloud formation

In minutes, Mexico's rains swept away homes and people

Belem in northern Brazil is known as the gateway to the Amazon rainforest

A decade since the Paris Agreement

Trees, targets and trillions: what's on the agenda at COP30?

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

50,000 attendees expected

Brazil hopes COP30 in Amazon can unite world for climate action

The US soybean harvest is underway but a strong yield won't guarantee a good income for farmer Travis Hutchison

China halting orders

US soybean farmers battered by trade row with China

Coral reefs are highly sensitive to changing conditions in the oceans and global warming poses the greatest threat to these vibrant ecosystems.

Point of no return

World's coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts

128 new moons: Advances in technology change our view of the solar system

The RRS Sir David Attenborough is set to depart to undertake research in the Antarctic as part of the British Antarctic Survey

UK spearheads polar climate change research as US draws back

Seychelles' opposition leader Patrick Herminie won the presidential run-off

Environmental concerns

Seychelles opposition leader wins presidential run-off

Covid-19 infection causes changes to sperm in mice that may increase anxiety in their offspring, according to Australian researchers

Concerns for future generations

Covid virus changes sperm in mice, may raise anxiety in offspring: study

Albania experienced a summer of devastating forest fires

Climate disaster

Questions loom over Albania's forests after devastating fires

The newly identified reptile is about the size of a dolphin

New species of Jurassic 'sword dragon' found in UK

European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher is calling on Europe to pay up to compete in a booming space economy

'On the right path'

Europe needs reusable rockets to catch Musk's SpaceX: ESA chief

Countries were unable to find common ground on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution

Despite imploding talks

Plastic pollution treaty not dead in the water: UN environment chief

In a visit to a charity in Oxford, southern England, Princess Catherine spoke to volunteers and families about the importance of connection

Speaking against smartphone overuse

Princess Kate hails role of 'human connection' in children's development

Corals and amphibians are among the species hit hardest, with more than 40 percent of each group under threat in the IUCN's last update

Top conservation group meets in UAE on growing threats to nature

Offshore wind giant Orsted said its global workforce would fall from 8,000 today to 6,000 by the end of 2027

Amid US struggles

Danish wind giant Orsted to cut workforce by a quarter

Atxu Marima was born into one of Brazil's uncontacted Indigenous groups

Intrusive 'civilization'

'Let them live in peace': survivor's fight for uncontacted Amazon people

Renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall died at the age of 91

Netflix interview

Jane Goodall's final wish: blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space

Smart people are everywhere, if only they can be given opportunity, says Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi

Born into a family of Palestinian

From refugee to Nobel: Yaghi hails science's 'equalizing force'

A demonstration of the holey nature of metal-organic frameworks, a revolutionary discovery that has earned three scientists the chemistry Nobel

'Revolutionary'

'Solids full of holes': Nobel-winning materials explained

Although first announced in 2011, work has yet to start on the waterway itself

Planned project

Canal Istanbul stirs fear and uncertainty in nearby villages

The floods followed heavy rain from Typhoon Matmo which hit northern Vietnam hard

Just north of Hanoi

Thousands stranded as record floods submerge Vietnam streets

The Nobel chemistry prize was awarded to trio for work on metal-organic frameworks

Developed metal–organic frameworks

Trio wins chemistry Nobel for new form of molecular architecture

India's rhino population has almost tripled in the past four decades thanks to conservation and anti-poaching efforts, from 1,500 to more than 4,000 today

Wildlife flee as floods swamp Indian parks

Record floods submerged streets in several communities in Vietnam on Wednesday, with at least eight people killed this week

Record flooding hits Vietnam city, eight killed in north

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