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

Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme

'Silent killer'

Stressed out: how to measure dangerous heat

Ancient spectacle

Perseids meteor shower set to peak

The record attempt is being done from Sion airport in the Rhone river valley in southwestern Switzerland

Modern-day Icarus?

Swiss pilot takes big step closer to solar plane altitude record

Countries are trying to negotiate a groundbreaking international treaty on combating plastic pollution

Indigenous communities plead for action at plastic pollution talks

Hot, dry winds and a heatwave make for challenging conditions

Conditions may worsen situation

'Challenging day' for firefighters battling huge blaze in France

NASA astronaut Anne McClain gives a thumbs up after returning from a tour on the International Space Station

Five-month mission

Four astronauts home from space station after splashdown

An Afghan worker loads plastic bottles into a sack at a recycling yard in Kabul

Growing problem

Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks

Experts say heatwaves are likely to become more frequent across Europe

Powder keg waiting to blow

Overcrowded French prison swelters in 'unbearable' heat

The Crew-10 astronauts pictured in March before they blasted off for the space station

Four astronauts leave space station for trip back to Earth

The death toll from flash floods and mudslides in China's northwestern Gansu has risen to 13, with 30 people missing, state media said

Death toll from northwest China floods rises to 13

The fire erupted in the rural region of Keratea, some 43 kilometres (27 miles) southeast of Athens

Greeks count cost of wildfire 'tragedy' near Athens

About 2,000 people evacuated were allowed to return home

One dead and several injured

Massive French wildfire contained but 'not under control'

New York City is testing out an arsenal of different tools in Harlem, in the northern part of the city, to try and find new products and methods to tackle the rats

'It can be done'

New York declares total war on prolific rat population

Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva says President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's objective is to ensure that 'the economy does not compete with ecology, but rather they are part of the same equation'

In run-up to annual UN climate summit

Brazil's Lula vetoes parts of environmental 'devastation bill'

Astronaut Jim Lovell reads the news after his crew returned safely to Earth from a failed Moon mission in 1970

NASA announced Friday

US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97

The fire ravaged a large area in just 48 hours

More favourable weather conditions

French firefighters optimistic after controlling vast wildfire

Egusi soup with pounded yam is a Nigerian staple

Nigerian scientists await return of Egusi seeds sent to space

The SolarStratos plane has 22 square metres of solar panels on its wings

Pioneer spirit drives Swiss solar-powered plane altitude attempt

Conservationists searching for new species in a cave in Phnom Proek district in Battambang province, Cambodia

New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst

Delegates are meeting in the main assembly hall at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva

Raising concerns

Oil industry presence surges at UN plastic talks: NGOs

The fire killed a woman in her 60s

Biggest in decades

France's huge wildfire will burn for days: authorities

A view of solar panels atop the roof of a home on February 25, 2025 in Pasadena, California

Huge blow for low-income households

Trump moves to kill $7 billion in solar panel grants

SpaceX has agreed to carry Italian experiments to Mars on on its Starship megarocket

New deal announced

SpaceX agrees to take Italian experiments to Mars

A student-led petition against the bill garnered more than two million signatures

Top constitutional authority

France strikes down return of banned bee-killing pesticide

US President Donald Trump tours the migrant detention center dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Friends of the Everglades

US judge orders temporary halt to new 'Alligator Alcatraz' construction

The trend of 'sleepmaxxing,' featuring mouth taping, eye masks and other bedroom practices with unproven health effects, is being promoted on social media by online influencers

Dangerous dreams

Inside internet's 'sleepmaxxing' craze

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 4: Joey Chestnut wins the men's competition at Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025 in New York City

Calorie counting

Americans eating (slightly) less ultra-processed food

Wildfires burn in the Canadian province of British Columbia in June

Hundreds forced to evacuate

Canada sends troops to eastern province as fire damage grows

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