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

The man known as the father of the abortion pill, Etienne-Emile Baulieu, has slammed it being banned in Wyoming

Era-defining scientist

Abortion pill inventor Etienne-Emile Baulieu dies aged 98

Dubai's skyline seen shrouded in haze in December 2023

Hailed by Greenpeace

Oil-rich UAE orders emissions monitoring in new climate law

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

Authorities remain 'vigilant'

Swiss officials halt further evacuations after glacier collapse

Heavy floods in Romania have threatened the Praid salt mine in the country's north

Region's biggest attraction

Severe floods threaten historic Romanian salt mine

Cash crop cause for optimism

New to South Africa, saffron holds promise

Croatia has become a haven for tourists due its rugged coastline, islands and inlets

Huge environmental impact

Booming tourism takes its toll on Croatia's coast

Swiss authorities say huge amounts of rock and ice from a glacier that collapsed in the Alps are hampering emergency services

Video: State of emergency declared

Rock and ice prevent rescue work after Swiss glacier collapse

Manitoba declared a province-wide state of emergency in response to the wildfires which have prompted over 17,000 evacuations

Canadian wildfire emergency spreads to second province

A tourist explores the Ritacuba Blanco glacier at the Natural National Park Nevado El Cocuy in Boyaca Department, Colombia, on April 19, 2024

Climate action could save half of world's vanishing glaciers, says study

US President Donald Trump (L) and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the release of the MAHA report at the White House on May 22, 2025

RFK Jr's agenda

'Make America Healthy Again' report cites nonexistent studies: authors

A partially logged section of a forest in the Grove of Giants in Huon Valley, Tasmania, where cutting down native trees is legal, despite its impact on wildlife and the environment

Loggers fell old, native forests on Australian island

Does our solar system have a mysterious ninth planet? The discovery of a new dwarf world suggests not

New kid on the block

The hunt for mysterious 'Planet Nine' offers up a surprise

Earlier this month, two residents of the small community of Lac du Bonnet died after being trapped in a major wildfire northeast of Winnipeg

22 active wildfires

Thousands to evacuate as Canada's Manitoba province declares wildfire emergency

Swiss glaciers melted as much in 2022 and 2023 as between 1960 and 1990

One missing as village largely destroyed in Swiss glacier collapse

Saul Luciano Lliuya claimed that electricity producer RWE should pay towards the cost of protecting his hometown of Huaraz

David vs Goliath

German court sets climate precedent but rejects Peruvian farmer's claim

A person swims in the Sky Pool, a transparent acrylic swimming pool bridge in London, as the Met Office reports the UK has had its sunniest spring since records began with 630 hours of sunshine between March 1 and May 27

Not that rainy after all

UK records sunniest spring in over a century

Saiga antelopes graze on a prairie outside Almaty

Aiming to cull 20%

Kazakhstan to allow hunting once endangered antelopes

A policemen looks on as workers remove a fallen tower after a violent storm in Multan, Pakistan on May 28

Homes destroyed

Violent Pakistan storms trigger floods, landslides killing 10

The EU expects climate emissions to fall by 54 percent by 2030 compared to 1990, very close to the 55 percent target

EU says 'well on track' to reach 2030 climate targets

Australian energy company Woodside Woodside is one of the world's largest producers of liquified natural gas

Offshore rigs, processing factories

Australia approves 40-year extension for contentious gas plant

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L) gestures as he speaks as US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon looks on during a MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) Commission Event in the White House

US no longer recommends Covid shots for children, pregnant women

The lush jungle of Halmahera Island in Indonesia has been eaten away by the world's largest nickel mine

'This is our land'

Nickel rush for stainless steel, EVs guts Indonesia tribe's forest home

The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on May 27, 2025

Starship megarocket blows up over Indian Ocean in latest bumpy test

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April to expand permitting for deep-sea mining in both domestic and international waters using an obscure 1980 US law

International waters

Trump's drive for ocean bed mining threatens law of the sea

Employees at the Halk Ekmek bakery mix and cut dough for Kulluoba bread, recreating a 5,000-year-old loaf

Discovered during excavations

Ancient bread rises again as Turkey recreates 5,000-year-old loaf

The new image uses a massive galaxy cluster as a magnifying glass to spy on ancient galaxies in the distance universe

Webb telescope captures deep view of ancient galaxies

The prehistoric humans lugged the massive bones kilometres inland

Dated over 20,000 years ago

Earliest proof of humans using whale bone tools discovered

The previous two launch tests of SpaceX's Starship ended with the upper stage erupting into fiery cascades that sent debris raining down over the Caribbean

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SpaceX set for next Starship launch after fiery failures

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