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

Cognitive and physical exercise

GERO project helps older people stay active

Such vast journeys by humpback whales -- which can grow up to 17 metres long -- are exceedingly rare

'Exceedingly rare'

Humpback whales make record swims between Australia and Brazil

Eels are a popular food in Japan but have proven stubbornly unwilling to breed in captivity without intervention

Easing pressure on endangered fish

Japan to sell eels bred in captivity in 'world first'

'Global solidarity remains extremely important', said Helen Clark

'Not there yet'

Ebola, hantavirus show world's risk preparedness lagging: pandemic expert

For some fishermen on the Congo River, selling the plastic they trawl from the water has become more profitable than fishing

More waste than fish

DR Congo fishermen resort to trawling plastic waste

Russia's 2022 invasion has wrought yet more suffering on Ukraine's birdlife

War-scarred landscapes

'Wiped out': Ukraine's bird lovers long for peaceful skies

The new 'bridges' are key to helping the monkeys navigate a fragmented habitat crisscrossed by busy roads where the animals are often killed

'We have to coexist'

Sky bridges, citizen science protect endangered Malaysia monkeys

The IPCC's latest report, finalised in 2023, estimates global temperatures rising by between 3.3C and 5.7C by 2100 compared to pre-industrial levels

New climate report

Lost in Trump's climate boast: best-case scenario abandoned

Argentine scientists have set traps to catch rodents that may be carriers of the hantavirus strain that killed three cruise ship passengers

Argentine researchers collect rodents for hantavirus tests

Ziel mir keng! – Science Check

Weight-loss jabs: game-changer or nonsense?

Alabatrosses and other seabirds would have to travel longer distances to find suitable homes in a warmer planet, a study said

Forced to fly further to survive

Seabird habitats shrink as ocean heats up: study

A Vega-C rocket launches with the SMILE spacecraft on a mission to study Earth's 'invisible armour'

Observations of Earth's magnetic field

Europe-China spacecraft launches to study Earth's 'invisible armour'

US beekeeper Roy Funkhouser (r) has a fraction of the beehives he should have due to catastrophic losses in recent years, not least by varroa mites

'Real struggle'

As bee population collapses, US apiarists fear research cuts

More than 40% of adults affected

Luxembourg scientists investigate growing impact of pollen and dust

File photo of a man with the Sentinelese tribe aiming his bow and arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter as it flies over North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands

'Eyes on, hands off'

Encroaching world threatens India's last 'uncontacted' tribe

Local residents sit o Old Shastri Nagaram Beach on the outskirts of Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island

Great Nicobar Island

India's strategic $9 bn megaport plan for pristine island

The first person to die from a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship had spent 48 hours in Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego, leading to speculation he contracted it there

In Tierra del Fuego, a hunt for the rodent carrier of hantavirus

The tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has taken the lead in pressing for climate change accountability

'Ultimately about survival'

UN General Assembly to take up climate change 'obligations' resolution

Villagers in the Ordu province protested plans to mine a verdant green area they use for farming

Resources dry-up

Mines 'draining Turkey's water sources', environmentalists warn

To protect critical infrastructure

University of Luxembourg researchers develop AI-controlled drone swarms

Shankar Balasubramanian (L) and David Klenerman pose ahead of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize award ceremony in Helsinki in 2021

Princess of Asturias award

British scientists among winners of top Spanish award

75,000 specimens

The fossil treasures kept behind the scenes in Luxembourg's Museum of Natural History

One mayor compared the local forests to a 'real powder keg'

'Real powder keg'

After winter storms, fires now threaten Portugal's forests

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking due to climate change

Amid climate change and tourism threats

Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctic talks start in Japan

Our greatest nemesis? By transmitting diseases, mosquitoes kill three quarters of a million people a year

Our greatest nemesis?

What if we killed all mosquitoes?

Mosquitoes are better known as bloodsuckers that spread malaria, dengue and other diseases, but at least some also play a little-known role as pollinators

Little-known pollinators

Mosquitoes: bloodsuckers and flower lovers

Antarctic treaty members meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima are set to focus discussions on climate change and tourism

Climate change and tourism threats

Antarctic talks in Japan: key things to know

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is among the companies named in climate lawsuit threatened by a legal change

'Creating uncertainty in business confidence'

New Zealand moves to halt lawsuits over climate damage

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