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

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed an agreement with the energy-producing province of Alberta to advance a new oil pipeline

To boost oil exports to Asia

Carney advances new Canada oil pipeline, raising climate concerns

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva suffered a major political blow after Congress rejected his vetoes of an environmental licensing bill

'Contradicts the government's environmental and climate efforts'

In blow to Lula, Brazil Congress revives controversial environmental bill

The European Space Agency's ministerial meeting was held in the German city of Bremen

€22.1 billion

Europe secures record space budget to boost independence

African forest elephants are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins

Higher than expected

Survey raises estimate of African forest elephant numbers

The critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark won new protections effectively banning international trade

Widely consumed in Japan

New protections for oceanic whitetip sharks, but not eels

Denigrating comments

Campbell's responds to 'absurd' charge it uses 3D-printed chicken

Bull sharks are the only one of the cartilaginous fishes that are able to move between fresh and salt water, allowing them to swim vast distances

Second person seriously injured

Bull shark kills woman off Australia beach

Bears have killed a record 13 people this year in Japan

Amid real sightings

Japan town retracts latest AI bear image

The new research could raise about the status of the famous Australopithecus afarensis skeleton 'Lucy'

Australopithecus deyiremeda

Mystery foot belongs to ancient human relative: scientists

The October 2024 floods killed more than 200 people and caused severe damage in the eastern region of Valencia

Resilience required

Climate change 'increasingly threatens' dynamic Spanish economy: OECD

Britain's centre-left Labour government had promised to halt issuing licences for new production in the North Sea

Despite promise to halt licences

UK allows new oil, gas drilling in existing North Sea fields

The rover, which is named after British scientist Rosalind Franklin, is planned to touch down on the Martian surface in 2030

Launch scheduled for 2028

NASA confirms support for delayed European Mars rover: ESA

Stegra's finances have come under increased scrutiny in recent months

Swedish steel startup Stegra gets more state aid

The death toll from days of widespread flooding in southern Thailand rose to 33, with tens of thousands displaced in the country and neighbouring Malaysia

State of emergency declared

Floods in Thailand, Malaysia kill over 30, displace thousands

China has poured hundreds of millions of dollars of investment into the Central Asian country

Environmental damage accusations

Kyrgyzstan arrests Chinese CEO of gold mining firm

High prices of cocoa have spurred a surge in Liberia's cocoa exportation

Hershey, Nestle, Unilever, Mars

NGO links major chocolate brands to Liberia deforestation

Yuan Zi and his partner are to retire in China

Soft-power ambassadors

France bids farewell to beloved pandas bound for China

Experts say climate change has intensified extreme weather, making conditions increasingly unpredictable

State of emergency declared

Thailand floods kill 13, leaving people stranded and roads submerged

The tiny critters that love to lurk in mattresses and pillows can help pinpoint suspects at crime scenes

Six-legged forensics

Malaysian scientists recruit bed bugs as crime scene sleuths

Researchers found that even tiny chihuahuas carry wolf DNA

Points to interbreeding

Scientists say most dogs have some wolf DNA - even chihuahuas

An effective trade ban on the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark will be discussed at the CITES meeting

More than 180 nations to join

Rhino horn sales, shark protection on wildlife talks agenda

A bunkering barge (R) supplies bio-methanol fuel to a container ship in Singapore. Three firms have been licensed to start supplying methanol in the port city from next year to help cut shipping carbon emissions

Set to issue bunkering licences

Singapore sets course for 'green' methanol ship fuel supplies

Recent referendums

European countries that allow assisted dying

Earth-shattering win

Scotland's World Cup victory over Denmark registered on richter scale

People wade through floodwaters in Vietnam's coastal Nha Trang city

At least 12 missing

Vietnam flooding kills at least 90

Northern Australia cleans up after cyclone

Andre Correa do Lago suspended the talks to consider Colombia's procedural objection

Boos, blowups and last-minute pause as a chaotic COP30 closes out

Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of climate negotiations on the fringes of the rainforest

Disappointing outcome

Amazon climate deal a 'win' for global unity but fossil fuels untouched

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