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

The latest cuts at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reduce its workforce by nearly a quarter

US environment agency axes nearly a quarter of workforce

Canada has counted some 3,000 wildfires in 2025

Human-induced climate change

Canada wildfires burn area the size of Croatia

At least three wild elephants were found dead across Sri Lanka, a day after six rescued young elephants were returned to the jungle

Three Sri Lankan elephants killed in blow to conservation efforts

A firefighting airplane releases water over burnt areas following a wildfire which started in the municipality of Mentrida

3,100 hectares burned

Spain taming fire that belched smoke cloud over Madrid

Hunza is known fort its natural beauty and attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year

Environmental concerns

Pakistan bans new hotel construction around tourist lakes

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is an independent entity established under a UN convention that is working on developing a code to regulate deep-sea mining

Following two weeks of negotiations

New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure

Antarctic ice holds clues to earth's changing climate

Parka-wearing scientists

From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old ice

Sri Lankan authorities returned six orphaned or injured elephants back into the wild after nursing them back to health

Conservation project

Sri Lanka returns orphaned elephants to the jungle

Heavy rains have been linked to 54 deaths in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, taking the toll to about 180 since the arrival of the monsoon in late June

54 people killed in 24-hours of heavy monsoon rain in Pakistan

Rescue workers search for missing people after a 10-metre-high (33-foot) retaining wall from an overpass collapsed onto the road during a heavy rain in Osan

Thousands evacuated

Three dead as South Korean region hit by most rain in 120 years

Chinese farmer Zhang Shengwu sits in his homemade submarine in a river in Hanshan county, in China’s eastern Anhui province

'Big Black Fish'

Chinese farmer makes splash with homemade submarine

Villager Rumyana Tsoneva says every year the water shortages get worse

War-time infrastructure

Leaking pipes as climate warms: Bulgaria faces water crisis

A new IVF technique using DNA from three people successfully reduced the risk that eight babies inherited genetic diseases from their mothers

Mitochondrial DNA

World-first IVF trial reduces risk of babies inheriting diseases

The FBI has warned of an 'alarming number of suicides' associated with blackmail using AI-powered 'nudify' apps

Sextortion scams

AI-powered 'nudify' apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmail

Snow provides glaciers with protection from the sun

'Everything has dried up'

Heat melts Alps snow and glaciers, leaving water shortage

The weather agency day reported that the main fissure was estimated to be 2.4 kilometres (1.5 miles) long

Reykjanes peninsula

Iceland volcano erupts for ninth time since 2023

Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels

Boom in rooftop panels

Pakistan's quiet solar rush puts pressure on national grid

This photo provided by NASA on July 15, 2025, was taken by Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, showing the solar wind racing out from the Sun's corona, or outer atmosphere

A scientist's gold mine

Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats

US President Donald Trump attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

Massive infrastructure updates needed

Trump unveils investments to power AI boom

Flash flooding

Causing travel chaos

Two dead in New Jersey as soaked US northeast braces for more rain

The tree at Sycamore Gap had stood for nearly 200 years in northern England

'Deliberate and mindless'

Two men who chopped down iconic UK tree handed jail sentences

This screen grab from a NASA+ broadcast on June 26, 2025, shows the Axiom Mission 4 crew inside the International Space Station's Harmony module

22-hour journey

Astronauts from US, India, Poland, Hungary on SpaceX capsule return to Earth

Plaintiffs Pabai Pabai (L) and Paul Kabai (R) said they were devastated by the Federal Court's decision

Lacklustre emission targets

Indigenous Australians lose landmark climate court case against government

Raspberry pickers scour the fields for fruit that have not withered in the heat

Drought-hit Serbian raspberry farmers fear 'catastrophic' future

(L/R) Food and Drug Administration Commissioner (FDA) Martin Makary and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., eat ice cream at the end of a news conference at the USDA headquarters building in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2025

Petroleum-derived synthetic colouring

US ice cream makers to scoop out synthetic dyes under RFK Jr. push

Volunteers hand out anti-data center signs at a public meeting in Canaan Valley, West Virginia, June 30, 2025

Rapidly rising needs

W. Virginia villagers take on AI-driven power plant boom

A huge column of smoke rises from the Grand Canyon

Popular tourist site

Spreading Grand Canyon fire destroys historic lodge

Speaking during a visit to Beijing ahead of a major EU-China summit in the city this month, Teresa Ribera dismissed China's claims that the bloc was engaging in

Deep frictions exist

EU climate VP seeks 'fair competition' with China on green energy

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