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

Un soignant prépare un vaccin contre la rougeole dans un centre de santé à Lubbock, au Texas, le 27 février 2025

Johns Hopkins University

US measles epidemic its worst of 21st century

A helicopter flies overhead looking for missing people in Kerrville, Texas

Texas flood toll passes 100 as more bodies recovered

A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on July 5, 2025

Human choices turned hazards

Texas floods: How geography, climate and policy failures collided

No alpha males here: A male black lemur pictured in the foreground, with a female behind him

More nuanced power dynamics

Alpha males are rare among our fellow primates: scientists

Several initial studies have highlighted the potential economic and environmental benefits of using rice blocks in construction

Alternative construction materials boom

Houses made from rice: Kyrgyzstan's eco-friendly revolution

Plastics and metal for recycling at a plant in Pahang state in June. Malaysian plastics recuclers prefer importing plastic waste because they sat it is

Recycling industry

NGOs laud tougher Malaysia plastic trash import laws

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki spewed an ash tower 18 kilometres high in a fresh eruption

Colossal ash tower

Bali flights nixed after huge Indonesia volcano eruption

The storm brought gusts of up to 222 kilometres (138 miles) per hour to southwest Taiwan, where it made landfall late Sunday

400,000 households affected

Typhoon Danas kills two, injures hundreds in Taiwan

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) speaks at the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025

'Indiscriminate'

BRICS nations slam Trump tariffs, condemn strikes on Iran

An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the restoration lab of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2020

Large collection

Egyptian conservators give King Tut's treasures new glow

The fires have hit Syria's coastal mountains, burning vast areas of forest

'Turned to ash'

Syria fights 'catastrophic' fires for fourth day

Aigen's solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding

Creating alternatives

AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands

Brazilian soldiers patrol Ipanema beach during security operations ahead of the 2025 BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro

BRICS nations to denounce Trump tariffs

A rare blanket of heavy snow fell on parts of northeastern Turkey on Friday

Heavy snow hits Turkey's northeast as wildfires rage

Firefighters have been battling a wildfire in Koropi, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) from Athens

Spreading east of the capital

Greece on high alert as heat and wind fuel fire outbreaks

'From now on all melt that occurs on glaciers until October is unsustainable,' says Huss

'Glacier Loss Day'

Meltdown: Swiss glaciers hit annual tipping point weeks early

After an intense night fighting the blaze in the western area of Cesme, the fire was brought under control, a minister said

600 fires countrywide

Firefighters master one Turkey wildfire as two others rage on

Fruit bats are known to carry Australian bat lyssavirus, but it is not known what species delivered the fatal bite

Rabies-like infection

Australian man dies from 'extremely rare' bat bite virus

The three South American countries have all recorded sharply below-zero temperatures as the polar air originated from Antarctica and swept across the region

Due to polar air mass

Record cold grips Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

'Frogging', or the hunt for the exotic amphibians that call the rainforest home, is taking off in Malaysia's Sarawak state in Borneo

Leap into the night

'Frogging' takes off in Borneo's jungle

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling means that around 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean must undertake legal reforms 'to reduce the risks arising... from the degradation of the global climate system'

Taking 'all necessary measures'

Inter-American court says states must protect people from climate change

Under Lee Zeldin's leadership, the EPA has sought to fulfill Trump’s campaign promises by rolling back environmental regulations, boosting fossil fuel production, and slashing funding for clean energy

139 staff affected

Trump environmental agency suspends employees over letter of dissent

An aerial image shows vehicles driving on the California 14 Highway as solar panels, part of an electricity generation plant, stand on June 18, 2021 in Kern County near Mojave, California

Breakdown of new legislation

How will Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' impact US climate policy?

Firefighters have been working to extinguish a wildfire in the western Turkish province of Izmir

Firefighters battling high winds

Two dead as wildfires rage near Turkish resort of Izmir

Protesters hold upside-down portraits of the president in 2019

Climate protest

Europe court says France allowed to fine president portrait snatchers

The fuel restriction was introduced Tuesday to reinforce an already-existing but widely disregarded ban on petrol cars older than 15 years, and diesel vehicles older than 10

Public 'discontent'

New Delhi says fuel ban on old vehicles not feasible

The Chikyu, pictured here in 2013, will drill around the remote island of Minami Torishima

Innovation programme

Japan plans 'world first' deep-sea mineral extraction

Fruit bats are known to carry Australian bat lyssavirus, but it is not known what species delivered the fatal bite

Rabies-like infection

Australian man dies from 'extremely rare' bat bite virus

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