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Plastic waste has been found from the bottom of the seas to the tops of mountains

Aiming to forge a global treaty

Plastic pollution treaty talks deadlocked

Shocked at plastic waste on a once pristine beach, Simon Bernard launched what he called a 'plastic odyssey'

Fighting pollution

A French sailor's personal 'Plastic Odyssey'

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

France to rule on controversial bee-killing pesticide bill

Experts said the deadly flood that swept away an Indian Himalayan town was likely caused by a rapidly melting glacier fuelled by the effects of climate change

Rapidly melting

Deadly Indian Himalayan flood likely caused by glacier collapse, experts say

Heavy rains flooded parts of South Asia

Floods, wildfires, drought

Third-hottest July on record wreaks climate havoc

This general view shows the Civic Center in Aiwo on the island of Nauru.

Fears that the scheme could be exploited

Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action

Many Australians regard cockatoos as something of a nuisance, a reputation owed in part to the parrots' cacophonous, screeching cries

Source of fascination to scientists

Cockatoos can bust a move: Australian research

A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023

Influential paper

Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge

The collapse of a mountain of waste in the Ugandan capital on August 9, 2024, killed 35 people

'We are living a miserable life'

A year on, Ugandans still suffering from deadly garbage collapse

Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has repeatedly set climate targets campaigners describe as unclear and unambitious

World's fourth-largest emitter

Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions

The Los Angeles blazes in January constitute the largest-ever insured wildfire loss event by far, reaching an estimated $40 billion, said Swiss Re

Natural disasters caused $135 bn in economic losses in first half of 2025: Swiss Re

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, the transmitter of dengue, Zika and chikungunya, is seen through a microscope

Passed on by mosquitoes

Chikungunya in China: What you need to know

Smoke billows from a forest fire in southern France

First casualty reported

One dead, nine injured in wildfire in southern France

A handout photograph released by the Indian Army shows residential buildings partially submerged in sludge after the mudslide in Uttarakhand

Four people killed

Indian army searches for scores missing after deadly Himalayan flood

Effects of climate change

Why climbing the Alps is riskier than ever before

Environmental activist hold a banner reading

Fearing river pollution

'Not backing down': activists block hydro plants in N.Macedonia

Signed by acting administrator Sean Duffy, the July 31 memo is the latest sign of the agency's shift towards prioritizing human space exploration over scientific research under President Donald Trump's second term

NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars

Higher temperatures increase evaporation, so that more water is stored in the atmosphere, in turn increasing the risk of heavy rainfall and flooding

Destructive and deadly weather

Summer 2025 already a cavalcade of climate extremes

Rescue teams deployed to India's Uttarakhand state where flash flooding washed out a town in the tourist region of Dharali

Rescue teams deployed

100 missing after flash flood washes out Indian Himalayan town

Nations are trying to secure the world's first treaty on plastic pollution

Landmark treaty

Plastic pollution treaty talks open with 'global crisis' warning

Scientists documented the

Great Barrier Reef suffers most widespread bleaching on record

With the return of wolves in Europe, sheep are in more danger

Predators targeting flocks

'Human presence': French volunteers protect sheep from wolves

BP has launched a major pivot back to its more profitable oil and gas business, shelving its once industry-leading targets on reducing carbon emissions and slashing clean energy investment

Pivot away from green energy

Oil giant BP surprises with better than expected earnings

BP has launched a major pivot back to its more profitable oil and gas business, shelving its once industry-leading targets on reducing carbon emissions and slashing clean energy investment

In contrast to rivals

Oil giant BP returns to profit in second quarter

A resident seated on a couch checks her mobile phone while cleaning her house following deadly flooding in Taishitun village, Miyun district, Beijing on August 5, 2025

Risk of natural disasters

Beijing lifts rain alert after tens of thousands evacuated

Seawater intrusion into the delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in Pakistan, has triggered the collapse of farming and fishing communities

Ecological collapse

Death of a delta: Pakistan's Indus sinks and shrinks

Northern Vietnam is sweltering under a blistering heatwave, with 17 places across seven provinces reporting record highs for the month of August

Record heatwave blasts northern Vietnam

Archaeologist Richard Oslisly leads a dig at Youmbidi Cave in eastern Gabon where unearthed vestiges of prehistoric human activity offer insight into central Africa's past

Ancient secrets

Gabon forest cave reveals clues about prehistoric central Africa

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