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

An American Bison, also called Buffalo, grazes in the Yellowstone National Park July 09, 2020

Scientists call for free roaming

Bison herds 'reawaken' Yellowstone's prairies

A digital reconstruction of 'Spicomellus afer', an ankylosaur dinosaur with bone spikes fused to each rib

'Strangest' dinosaur covered in spiked armoury: scientists

Japan's Kodai Naraoka tosses up a shuttlecock at the badminton world championships in Paris on August 28

Never mind the shuttlecocks

Badminton federation smoothes feathers ruffled by shuttlecock shortage

Norway, western Europe's biggest oil and gas producer, is regularly criticised for its huge fossil fuel output

Appeal underway

Norway, environmentalists back in court over oil field permits

Wind turbines on Nikkawahama Beach in Kamisu city, Ibaraki prefecture. Japan declared in its updated energy plan this year that offshore wind power was a

Offshore wind projects in doubt

Japan confident on wind power after Mitsubishi blow

Susan Monarez has been dismissed as head of the CDC after less than a month into the job

Clashing with RFK Jr

White House fires US health agency head after she refused to quit

A wildfire burns on Mount Underwood near Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on August 12, 2025

Air Quality Life Index

Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study

Fisherman Chris Kelly, 32, shows octopus caught aboard his vessel in Plymouth Harbour, southwest England

Unwelcome surprises

'Perfect storm': UK fishermen reel from octopus invasion

A white-bellied pangolin rescued from local animal traffickers in Uganda. All eight known pangolin species remain at high risk of extinction

High risk of extinction

Conservationists call for more data to help protect pangolins

Pakistan authorities blew up an embankment next to a flood-swollen dam during a brutal monsoon season, with a holy Sikh site submerged by floodwater

Holy Sikh sites

Pakistan blows up dam embankment as it braces for flood surge

Four people have died and thousands have been evacuated because of this month's fires

Corruption allegations

Wildfires pile pressure on Spanish PM

Intense monsoon rainstorm in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has caused widespread chaos

Record-breaking rain fuels deadly floods in India's Jammu region

People shield themselves from the hot sun with umbrellas in Tokyo on August 27, 2025

Hottest summer on record

Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35C or more

SpaceX's Starship rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on August 26, 2025, for its tenth test flight

Demonstrating capabilities

SpaceX answers critics with successful Starship test flight

This handout photo provided by the City of Phoenix shows a large cloud of dust at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on August 25, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona

Sci-fi skies: 'Haboob' plunges Phoenix into darkness

As of Tuesday, there were still 15 active wildfires burning in Spain

Swept the country

Spain calls wildfires one of its worst disasters in years

Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain

Despite heart condition

Japanese climber, 102, sets Mount Fuji record

Typhoon Kajiki downed trees and tore roofs off thousands of homes in Vietnam

Widespread flooding

Typhoon death toll rises in Vietnam as downed trees hamper rescuers

Years of drought have reduced southern Iraq's mythical marshes to a barren land

Persistent drought

'The marshes are dead': Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water

Portugal counts the cost of its biggest ever forest fire

The National Museum of Prague already has hyperrealistic artistic reconstructions of human ancestors

Revolutionised understanding of humanity's ancestors

Human ancestor Lucy gets first European showing in Prague

SpaceX's Starship on the launchpad in Starbase in Texas as its tenth test flight was called off

SpaceX delays Starship megarocket launch in latest setback

The August heatwave exacerbated tinderbox conditions that have fuelled deadly wildfires

Amid forest fires

Spain heatwave was 'most intense on record'

A psychologist speaks with a couple in a shelter in Benavente, who fled their village threatened by forest fires

'Everything they own could burn'

Fires ravage an ageing rural Spain

Pre-sunrise spectacle

Last chance to see rare six-planet parade on Monday morning

Firefighters have been risking their lives to contain the wildfires

Deadly injuries

Portugal suffers new wildfire death as Spain beats back blazes

The Trump administration has ordered work to stop on the Revolution Wind project off the US coast of Rhode Island, built by Danish firm Orsted

US halts work on huge, nearly complete offshore wind farm

Sarah Ezekiel's son Eric grew up never knowing how his mother had once spoken

Groundbreaking tech

AI helps UK woman rediscover lost voice after 25 years

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