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

The Lady's Slipper orchid was once thought to be extinct in the UK

Believed to be extinct

New rare wild orchid seen in UK for first time in 100 years

Charting a new course

Luxembourg in space: a small country with big ambitions

The evacuation of around 1,200 members of the Indigenous Guna community to a new life on the mainland was one of the first planned migrations in Latin America due to climate change

Year after exodus, silence fills Panama island threatened by sea

The particle accelerator inside the carbon-dating lab of France's Atomic Energy Commission outside Paris

Turning back the clock

Time machine: How carbon dating brings the past back to life

A patient is pictured before a mammography in France in 2017

Oncology conference

New hope for patients with less common breast cancer

The robot made by Impossible Metals prepares to enter the water in Collingwood, Canada

Limiting ecological disruption

In Canada lake, robot learns to mine without disrupting marine life

Colombia is the world's top producer of cocaine, a drug derived from the coca leaf

Pacific approach

Aiming a blow at narcos, Colombia pays farmers to uproot coca

Smoke rises from the crater of Mount Etna

Europe's largest active volcano

Italy's Mount Etna erupts, spewing ash, gas and rock

The Birch Glacier collapsed, throwing tons of rock, ice and scree down the mountainside into the Lotschental valley

Unprecedented disaster

Swiss glacier collapse could cost huge sums: insurers

Two galaxies merging with each other -- a cataclysmic fate that could await our home Milky Way

'The fate of our galaxy is still completely open'

Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all

It was the driest spring in more than 50 years for Britain

Driest in more than 50 years

UK registers warmest spring on record: weather service

Temperatures exceeded 40C in parts of southern region of Andalusia

Driven by human activity

Spain records highest May temperature on record

This aerial view shows a man inspecting dead fish during a mass die-off at the Ibn Najm marsh

Latest string of such events

Iraq probes fish die-off in southern marshes

Conservation groups want to see no-fishing bans imposed over marine protected areas

Little progress ensured

World coming up short on promised marine sanctuaries

A sea turtle swims over dead coral on a reef in Baa Atoll in Maldives

Alarming symptoms of stress

Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollution

Corals bleach in warm ocean waters, making them particularly vulnerable as global temperatures rise due to climate change

In a hotter future, what comes after coral reefs die?

The third UN Ocean Conference takes place in Nice, southern France, from June 9 to 13

Need more than rhetoric

Nations urged to make UN summit a 'turning point' for oceans

More than 3,000 people have been displaced after torrential rains caused deadly flooding in Mokwa, Nigeria

Witness account

As toll rises, Nigeria flood victims recall worst disaster in memory

The airline industry's goal of decarbonising by 2050 is in peril due to climate-sceptic policies, the International Air Transport Association has warned

Policies put 2050 goal at risk

Key climate target of airline decarbonisation 'in peril': IATA

The installations offer visitors a much-needed mental break from the war

Kyiv exhibition helps relieve stress of war

Topsoil was collected as part of large-scale decontamination efforts after the devastating meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

Large-scale efforts

Recycling contaminated soil from Fukushima: Japan's dilemma

Takuya Haraguchi is hoping to revitalise agriculture in the Fukushima area by growing kiwi fruit

Bringing life back

'Moving forward': the Gen-Z farmer growing Fukushima kiwis

Hailstones covered the ground and battered seafront businesses during the storm in Egypt's Alexandria

'Erratic weather'

Sudden hailstorm lashes Egypt's Alexandria

Residents wade through a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Guwahati, in India's state of Assam on May 30

Landslides and floods

India monsoon floods kill five in northeast

The Birch Glacier collapsed into the Lotschental valley, destroying the village of Blatten

Many factors at play

How Switzerland's Birch glacier collapsed

An artificial lake has formed near the village of Blatten, destroyed in the glacier collapse

Catastrophe averted?

Flood fears recede after Swiss glacier collapse

France's minister for ecological transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher (L) met several Chinese officials during her visit, including Environment Minister Huang Runqiu (R)

After visit to Beijing

France says it has common ground with China on environment

'No permit, no hajj': Saudi intensifies crackdown after heat deaths

Response to 2024 pilgramage tragedy

No permit, no hajj: Saudi intensifies crackdown after heat deaths

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