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

Primatologist Jane Goodall, who has spent her life researching and fighting for the conservation of chimpanzees, pictured in Entebbe in 2018

Jane Goodall: crusader for chimpanzees and the planet

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Imelda looming off the southeastern United States

Damaging waves and flooding

Hurricane Imelda bound for Bermuda as a Cat 2 storm

This former fracking site in northwest Lancashire run by energy firm Cuadrilla Resources to extract shale gas from deep underground rock was pictured in 2018, but has been shut down since a moratorium in 2019 and is to be restored to farmland

Environmental impact

UK's Labour govt plans permanent fracking ban

'Terminator' star Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) joked that Pope Leo XIV (L) was an 'action hero' despite his less muscular frame

No indifference or resignation

Schwarzenegger's 'action hero' pope says don't give up on climate change

Severe rains in Ukraine's Odesa opened a sink hole in a road in which a bus and car can be seen

Torrential downpours kill nine in Ukraine's Odesa

A picture of Saturn's moon Enceladus taken by the Cassini space probe in 2006

Life, but not as we know it

More ingredients for life discovered in ocean on Saturn moon

Like others in the Swiss Alps, the Rhone Glacier is melting as the climate warms

Concerns over accelerated melting

Swiss glaciers shrank by a quarter in past decade: study

Action hero-turned-environmental campaigner Schwarzenegger hails the Catholic Church's climate mission

Climate conference

Pope, Schwarzenegger to rally Catholics to 'terminate' climate change

People walk along a flooded street in Ibiza on September 30, 2025

Wettest day since 1952

Beaches shut on Spain's Ibiza as downpours spark floods

Ice floating on the surface of the sea in the western Antarctic peninsula in 2016

Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record

Could scientists creating human egg cells in the lab end infertility as we know it?

Human skin cells turned into fertilisable eggs for first time

A wolf at the Arcturos sanctuary in Nymfaio, Greece, in 2018

'Multiplying in wild'

Wolf attack in Greece prompts calls for hunting rights

Typhoon Bualoi ripped roofs from buildings and uprooted electrical poles along Vietnam's coast, killing at least 11 people

Ripped roofs from buildings

Typhoon Bualoi kills dozens in Vietnam and Philippines

Extreme weather is a growing challege for Europe, the report said

Unable to agree on proposals

Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: report

Zurich's residents have banned petrol-fuelled leaf blowers. But electric ones can still be used -- just between October and December

Loud and spreading dust

Zurich votes to ban petrol leaf blowers

The Etosha National Park is home to 114 species, including the endangered black rhino

One of Africa's largest game reserves

Namibia deploys 500 soldiers to fight Etosha fire

The Triangulum Galaxy and the Autumn Sky

The ammonia-powered Green Pioneer is an emblem of Fortescue's climate ambitions

An Aussie tycoon bets billions on cleaning up iron ore giant

The classic monsoon weather pattern

South Asia monsoon: climate change's dangerous impact on lifeline rains

Researchers believe the reconstructed million-year-old skull belonged to the Homo longi species discovered in 2021

Digital reconstruction

Million-year-old skull could change human evolution timeline

Footage captured by a submersible of starfish on the exposed TNT of an unexploded Nazi bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Sea life thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs, sub discovers

Rescuers in Taiwan's Hualien are racing against time to locate dozens of people still missing in the aftermath of a barrier lake burst brought on by Super Typhoon Ragasa

Taiwan races to rescue two dozen missing after barrier lake burst

An autonomous robot guides shared cars inside Toyota's new

Myriad inventions

Toyota opens high-tech village in Japan to road test the future

Coastal businesses in Hong Kong areas such as Tseung Kwan O suffered extensive damage during Super Typhoon Ragasa

Trail of destruction

Hong Kong's coastal businesses pick up pieces after typhoon

This photo taken on January 23,2025 shows a worker holding a part of photovoltaic (PV) modules for solar panels in a factory in Suqian, in east China's Jiangsu province

Number one polluter

Under promise, over deliver? China unveils new climate goals

The batteries weigh 30 tonnes

30-tonne battery

Dutch lead charge on electric inland vessels

An aerial shot shows damage to an industrial estate in southern China's Guangdong province after Typhoon Ragasa ripped through

Amid power outages

South China cleans up after powerful Typhoon Ragasa

Watchdogs warned that nickel mining in Indonesia threatened coral reef hoptspots

'Domino effect'

Nickel mining threatens Indonesia coral haven, NGOs warn

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