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

An aerial photo shows flooded buildings in Rongjiang, in China's southwest Guizhou province on June 24, 2025

Summer of extreme weather

Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest China

Wind turbines at an onshore wind farm in Wales

Climate Change Committee

UK carbon emissions cut by half since 1990: experts

The new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices includes scientist Robert Malone, widely known for spreading false claims during the Covid-19 pandemic, including promoting ivermectin, a deworming drug

Measles, mumps, and rubella

RFK Jr's medical panel to revisit debunked vaccine claims

A landslide triggered by heavy rains has killed at least 10 people in the Colombian municipality of Bello, near the city of Medellin

At least 10 dead in Colombia landslide

People brave extreme temeratures in New York City, as a scorching heat wave blankets much of the eastern United States

Record temperatures expected

Nearly half the US population face scorching heat wave

Green algae releases hydrogen sulphide gas as it rots which can prove deadly at high concentrations

Environmental negligence

France ordered to compensate family of jogger killed by toxic algae

Brazil experienced historic fires last year, particularly in the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet

Satellite imagery

Brazil records 62% jump in area burned by forest fires: monitor

Indian labourers pluck tea leaves at a plantation

Enhanced Rock Weathering

Rock on: how crushed stone could help fight climate change

New York mayor Eric Adams has warned residents that the heatwave could be 'brutal and dangerous if you do not treat it with the understanding'

Expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius

Millions in US sweat out first extreme heat wave of year

Two southern resident killer whales rubbing a piece of seaweed between their bodies, in what researchers believe is a form of grooming

Making their own tools

Killer whales spotted grooming each other with seaweed

The mummified remains of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, at the Cairo Museum in 2007

Queen Hatshepsut's legacy

Gender not main factor in attacks on Egyptian woman pharaoh: study

The Trifid Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula -- stellar nurseries within our Milky Way -- are seen in unprecedented detail

Vera Rubin observatory reveals stunning first images

Paracetamol can be made by combining the bacteria E.coli and plastic waste, scientists have discovered

'Practical considerations remain'

E.coli can turn plastic into painkillers, chemists discover

Some 190 firefighters, 38 vehicles, 12 helicopters and four water-bombers have been deployed

Raging since the weekend

Greece declares emergency on Chios over wildfires

Scientists estimate there is a 4.3-percent chance this asteroid will hit the Moon in 2032

Researchers warn

Earth's satellites at risk if asteroid smashes into Moon: study

To reach the remote Bjornoya (Bear Island), meteorologists have to fly in by helicopter for their six-month stay

Weather observation

In Norway's Arctic, meteorologists have a first-row seat to climate change

The Trifid Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula -- stellar nurseries within our Milky Way -- are seen in unprecedented detail

Breathtaking views

Groundbreaking Vera Rubin Observatory reveals first images

A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type

'Gwada negative'

French scientists find new blood type in Guadeloupe woman

The freshwater Meso-American slider turtles are protected in Mexico

Found in cardboard boxes

Mexican authorities rescue 3,400 trafficked baby turtles

Developing nations will need substantial outside investment to transition to renewable energy and build climate resiliance

Retreating from commitments

World Bank and IMF climate snub 'worrying', says COP29 presidency

A chef takes a break to check his phone in a sliver of shade outside Union Station on August 12, 2016 in Washington,DC

Extreme temperatures

US enters first major heat wave of 2025

The European space industry is struggling to remain competitive in the face of Elon Musk's SpaceX

Calling for more investment

Macron says Europe must become 'space power' again

A hard-fought law requiring companies to ensure their global supply chains are free of ethical and environmental abuses has had its rollout pushed back to 2028

Cutting down on Green Deal?

EU plans to scrap anti-greenwashing rules after pushback

Drinks in glass bottles had five to 50 times more microplastic fragments than in plastic bottles

Released by France's food safety agency

More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic: study

The Thai government and WWF have been breeding sambar deer and releasing them into the wild to provide tigers with prey

Near fivefold increase in 15 years

Thailand credits prey releases for 'extraordinary' tiger recovery

Workers crush burnt agricultural waste at a 'green coal' production plant in Chad

More than 90% of forest cover lost since 1970s

Chad hopes 'green charcoal' can save vanishing forests

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Fuelled by social media

New Zealand coroner raises alarm over 'perilous' collision sport

Peruvian gas workers discovered the mummy of a boy believed to be over 1,000 years old while installing pipes in Lima

Pre-Hispanic tomb

Peru gas workers find thousand-year-old mummy

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