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Helicopters have played a key role in the battle against wildfires in Spain

Spain's deadly wildfires ignite political blame game

Drones are forcing military medics to find new ways to retrieve wounded to field hospitals

'I couldn't do anything'

Under a drone canopy, Ukraine army medics rely on robots and luck

Seatbelts on: Climate change is making turbulence more common during flights, research shows

Sorry, anxious fliers

Bumpy skies: How climate change increases air turbulence

Bear necessities: The big animal climbed on the ice cream shop's counter looking for a treat

Craving a sweet treat

Got the scoop: Bear takes over California ice cream shop

A person looks out at the ocean as large waves from Hurricane Erin keep swimmers away on August 21, 2025, in Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Hurricane Erin brings coastal flooding to N. Carolina, Virginia

'We want to ensure European sovereignty in energy supply,' says Voltfang chief David Oudsandji

German firm gives 'second life' to used EV batteries

The ECDC recommended mosquito repellent, long sleeves and trousers, window screens and bed nets for protection

Due to climate change

Record number of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in Europe: health agency

The white continent is melting: Researchers are sounding the alarm about the threats to Antarctica

Surging tourism is polluting Antarctica, scientists warn

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Erin forming in the Atlantic Ocean on August 20, 2025

Evacuation orders

North Carolina braces for flooding from Hurricane Erin

Shifts in different facets of Antarctica's climate system amplify each other and accelerate the pace of warming globally as well

Reaping what we sow

Antarctic climate shifts threaten 'catastrophic' impacts globally

India's Agni-5 missile, displayed during a rehersal in 2013 for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi

India test-fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile

A wildfire burns on Mount Underwood near Port Alberni, Canada on August 12, 2025

No longer life-threatening

Threat from massive western Canada wildfire eases

Aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest near the northern Brazilian city of Labrea on September 4, 2024

Due to intense rainy season

Brazil records 65 percent drop in Amazon area burned by fire

High winds have hampered efforts to contain wildfires in Spain that have already scorched a record stretch of land

Winds complicate wildfire battle in Spain

'We are currently exploring how to apply this innovation at a larger scale,' a Nestle researcher says

Nestle unveils method to boost cocoa yields as climate change hits

More than 20 people have died on Wednesday in a fresh spell of monsoon rain in Pakistan

Schools shut, houses damaged

Torrential Pakistan monsoon rains kill more than 20

A plume of smoke rises as a worker operates a bulldozer to convey heaps of raw coal on the outskirts of Dhanbad, in India's Jharkhand state

Years ahead of 2030 targets

India celebrates clean energy milestone but coal still king

Borneo island is home to orangutans, long-nosed monkeys, clouded leopards, pig-tailed macaques, flying fox-bats and the smallest rhinos on the planet

New investigation

US demand for RVs fuels deforestation on Indonesia's Borneo: NGOs

Volunteers clean up the contents of containers from the MSC Zoe spilled near Terschelling Island off the Netherlands

800 tons of waste

Dutch divers still haul up debris six years after container spill

New Yorkers and visitors to the megacity of eight million people are bombarded with blaring sirens, loud locals, raucous bars and car horns almost constantly

750,000 complaints in 2024

Sounds serious: NYC noise pollution takes a toll

Lower temperatures gave firefighters an edge in their battles agaisnt wildfires raging for days in Spain

As temperatures cool down

Spanish PM says 'difficult hours' left in wildfire fight

John Hume owned the largest rhino farm in the world until 2023

International horn trading

Ex-owner of world's largest rhino farm arrested for trafficking

Rescuers resumed searching for survivors as the death toll from monsoon floods in northern Pakistan rose to almost 400

Ongoing searches

Death toll from northern Pakistan monsoon floods hits almost 400

The problem was particularly acute during the summer, when thousands of visitors swim and play watersports in the lake

Due to bacteria and phosphorus

Pollution hotspots at England's most famous lake need 'urgent' action

Nestled among the boughs of a decades-old cotton tree in Hong Kong is a nest box designed for the yellow-crested cockatoo, of which only 1,200 to 2,000 remain in the world

Largest remaining wild population

HK scientist puts hope in nest boxes to save endangered cockatoos

Rescue workers and residents search for victims in the debris of collapsed houses after a cloudburst in Dolari village, in northern Pakistan

By glow of their mobile phones

Survivors claw through rubble after deadly Pakistan cloudburst

A house is seen partially flooded after Hurricane Erin battered the region in Guayama, Puerto Rico

Category four storm

Hurricane Erin douses Caribbean, menaces US coast

Pizza boxes, yoghurt lids, or aluminium foil – tips for correct waste separation

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