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

Indian-born UAE estate agent Muhammed Sajjad, leads a convoy of fIndian expats nostalgic for the monsoon season, on a

Driven by nostalgia

Monsoon-loving Indian expats chase rain in UAE desert

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is a physician and health economist who left a professorship at Stanford University to join the Trump administration

Gender, Alzheimer's, cancer

US restores some medical research grants, says top Trump official

The Thai government has proposed building a dam to prevent contaminated water from entering the country

Toxic Thailand rivers pinned on Myanmar mines

Cultivated peatlands account for some five percent of greenhouse gas emissions

20% of the land cover

Mapping Ireland's peatlands to help cut carbon emissions

More than 220 wildfires are burning across Canada, with 3.3 million hectares (12,700 square miles) already consumed so far this year

Violent and early

Experts warn Canada's wildfire season likely to be massive again

Countries have been negotiating a global treaty to address a torrent of plastic entering the environment, including the oceans.

UN Ocean Conference

Nations call for strong plastics treaty as difficult talks loom

The din created by shipping and other human activities is rising at an alarming rate, marine conservation groups say

Nations call for 'quieter' ocean to help marine life

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government has promised to deliver 'the biggest nuclear rollout program for a generation'

Sizewell C power station

UK pumps £14 bn into nuclear plant on path to net zero

NASA image released on December 11, 2018, shows sea ice forming in the Bellingshausen Sea

Satellite monitoring

Emperor penguin populations declining faster than expected

Greenpeace said nickel exploitation on the islands of Gag, Kawe and Manuran had led to the destruction of more than 500 hectares of forest and vegetation

Nickel extraction

Indonesia revokes most mining permits in dive hotspot after outcry

US President Donald Trump speaks as US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (C), and US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon look on during a MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) Commission Event

Controversial move

RFK Jr ousts entire US vaccine panel over alleged conflicts

So-called polymetallic nodules like those seen in this 2016 photograph from Japan are at the heart of the race to mine ocean floors for valuable minerals and metals

Hungry for crucial resources

China carefully assembling a deep-sea mining strategy

A handout satellite picture of wildfires in York Factory First Nation in Canada's Manitoba province from May 30

Indigenous community at risk

Military aids evacuations as Canada wildfires expand eastward

Officials in Sri Lanka said they were withholding the results of a survey of crop-destroying wildlife because monkey business appeared to have distorted some of the data

Data appeared unrealistic

Monkey business delays Sri Lanka's wildlife survey

Image grab taken from video footage provided by whale rescue group Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA) on June 9, 2025 shows a distressed humpback whale tangled in a rope swimming south of Sydney Harbou

Distressed animal

Tangled humpback whale sparks rescue mission off Australia

South Africa is one of the largest polluters in the world and generates about 80 percent of its electricity through coal

Losing billions

SAfrica's coal dependency puts economy at risk: report

Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself

Climate change heightens risk of Indian farmer suicides

Farmed salmon -- like the ones grown in pens here in the Australian island state of Tasmania -- are easier to grow than some other fish species

Important source for diets

Farmed production of some fish - and seaweed - is soaring

Nations gathering at the UN Ocean Conference are under pressure to deliver more to restore the health of the seas

No US delegation expected

World leaders urged to step up for overexploited oceans

The team has just minutes after a rhino is tranquilised

Two-tonne operation

How to move a rhino

Tim Friede has allowed himself to be bitten by snakes more than 200 times

'I know what it feels like to die'

Man who let snakes bite him 200 times spurs new antivenom hope

France is hosting the third edition of the UN Ocean Conference in the Riviera city of Nice

Money, mining and marine parks: The big issues at UN ocean summit

Kimberly Price, 53, takes care of baby oysters at her home in Maryland

US oyster gardeners rebuild nature's own water-cleaning system

Local Ocean Conservation helpers and fishermen carry a Loggerhead sea turtle saved from a net

Fighting poachers and polution

Kenya NGO saves turtles from nets, plastic and rising tides

Elon Musk gives a tour to then President-elect Donald Trump and lawmakers of the control room before the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024

Private power, public risk

Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans

Chilean fisherman Rodrigo Gallardo used to fill his trawler with hake but these days he reels in few of the country's favorite catch

Missing merluza

Missing merluza: Chile's battle to save its favorite catch

The Metals Company CEO Gerard Barron says the Canadian company will

Submarine mining pioneer

'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO

SpaceX's Crew Dragon -- a gumdrop-shaped capsule that flies atop a Falcon 9 rocket and splashes down in the ocean -- is currently the only US spacecraft certified to carry crew to the ISS under a contact worth more than $4.9 billion

SpaceX's 'Dragon'

In row with Trump, Musk says will end critical US spaceship program

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