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The Swedish academy commended Francis Halzen's work on high-energy neutrinos

Belgian physicist

Nobel physics prize hails 'ghostly messengers' from space

Neutrinos generate blue light that can be observed in ice, the Nobel committee explained

Won Nobel physics prize

Neutrinos: space particles that change our view of universe

The COP31 climate summit is being held in the Turkish city of Antalya in November.

Major progress not expected

COP31 eyes modest steps as climate disasters multiply

The Nobel committee announced the winners in Stockholm

Pioneering work

US-German trio wins medicine Nobel for illuminating the brain

Germany sets new record

Share of electric cars in new registrations rises to 34.5%

The heavy storms and floods washed away trees and vehicles

Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete

Sand berms have been built along beaches in Southern California in anticipation of storms hitting the area

By as much as a foot

Sea levels to rise in California as coastal wave surges up west coast

The Canadair CL415s are high-wing twin-engine turboprop water bombers amphibious aircraft, with a range of 2,427 km, a maximum speed of 376 km/h and a capacity of 6,137 liters of water.

Amphibious aircraft

Italy's firefighting planes return home after scorching summer

Bogong moths carpet the wall of an alpine cave in Australia, after completing an annual migration to beat the summer heat

Migratory spectacle

Return of swarming moth spectacle has Australia in a flutter

Artist's impression of Saturn and its rings.

Stargazing Guide: The Season of Saturn

The October night sky in Luxembourg

Members of the fishing community tying seagrass shoots onto jute twines for restoration work to protect Kariyachalli Island, off the coast of Thoothukudi in India's Tamil Nadu state

Kariyachalli island

India turns to corals and seagrass to shield against rising seas

Ziel mir keng! Science Check

How dangerous is alcohol?

Locals on the island of Principe are paid a financial dividend to preserve its natural beauty

Luxury tourism business

Cash for nature protection: hotelier's offer to Principe islanders

Swami Prem Parivartan, better known as "Peepal Baba" or "tree father", and his teams became one of India's largest grassroots planting movements

Nearly half-century mission

India's 'Tree Father' plants for a greener future

Addressing the General Assembly during its high-level week in sunglasses, Shah said a warming climate was 'destabilizing the fragile Himalayan ecology,' melting permafrost and glaciers and accelerating hazards

Urging countries to help

Nepal PM says floods 'a warning to the world' about climate change

Scientists suspect a bacterial infection to be behind the mystery deaths of hundreds of southern right whale calves washed up on beaches in Argentina's Patagonia region

Suspected 'natural cause'

Bacteria suspected in deaths of hundreds of baby whales off Argentina

Located some 500 miles (800 kilometres) west of the South China Sea and home to just 17,000 people, Palau is also earmarked to house a crisis-ready stockpile for US Marines

UN approves resolution on dealing with rising sea levels

Rescuers use an excavator to transport a flood survivor, following flash floods and a landslide disaster in Nepal's Nuwakot district; outgoing UN chief Antonio Guterres has lashed out at oil companies at his swansong speech to the general assembly

Withering attack

UN chief says 'Big Oil' treats atmosphere as open sewer

Speaking at the opening ceremony of Climate Week NYC, Ed Miliband argued that the "fossil fuel roller coaster" underlined "the energy independence imperative of clean energy"

UN General Assembly

Climate crisis a job for world leaders, not just activists: UK FM

Artist’s impression of a spacecraft against the Milky Way.

How Do We Know?

How far away are the stars?

'How Do We Know?' and 'Cosmic Myth Buster'

Two new RTL Today columns put cosmic claims to the test

North Atlantic right whales would be one of the main species threatened by new changes to the Endangered Species Act

To 'cut the heart out of the ESA'

Trump admin makes major cut to endangered species protections

An artist’s rendering of a rover on the lunar surface.

Space exploration

Luxembourg-led MAGPIE set to become Europe's first rover on the Moon

Urinal researchers wore yellow raincoats to collect their award for studying splashback

Stranger than fiction

Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

An American weighs magic mushrooms at a 'psychedelic church' in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Natural psychedelic

US study tests psilocybin to fight cancer side effects

Scientists agree that global warming increases the risk of extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts and floods.

First-of-its-kind assessment

World must prepare for 'reality' of missing 1.5C goal: UN

Scientists say that global warming is accelerating the loss of mountain glaciers, which can trigger devastating events.

Devastating events

Melting glaciers an 'immediate' climate risk: author of UN report

A man takes a break in midtown Manhattan during a heat wave in New York City on July 3, 2026

What you need to know

What's next after judge strikes down New York's landmark climate fund law

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