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Science & Environment

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

People bask in the record heat at London's Wimbledon Common

Following sunniest April

UK records hottest ever May Day

Double crested cormorants perch on pilings at the Mallows Bay Park in Maryland

Birding app and machine learning

New research reveals where N. American bird populations are crashing

Accelerated erosion

Booming tourism and climate change threaten Albania's coast

A periodical Brood X cicada climbs up an oak tree in Washington, DC on May 20, 2021

Periodical insects

Seventeen years later, Brood XIV cicadas emerge in US

One of the proposed sites for a nuclear power station in Australia -- the shuttered Liddell Power Station on the east coast

Zero carbon emissions

Nuclear power sparks Australian election battle

Global leaders and environmentalists are pushing back against US President Donald's Trump's order to fast-track deep-sea mining to protect the marine habitat and its residents, like this mother humpback whale and calf seen off the coast of Brazil

Outside American waters

UN body warns over Trump's deep-sea mining order

Vast swaths of South Korea's southeast were burned in a series of blazes in March, which killed 31 people and destroyed historic sites

Deadliest wildfire

Climate change made fire conditions twice as likely in South Korea blazes: study

A massive power outage in Spain has sparked debate about the reliability of renewable energy such as wind and solar

Fierce criticism

Renewable energy in the dock in Spain after blackout

Scientists fear the numbers of insects in the UK are falling, after drivers record fewer bug splats on their vehicles

'Alarming fall'

UK scientists fear insect loss as car bug splats fall

Olivier Nsengimana won the Whitley Fund for Nature Gold Award for his work to save the crane

Extraordinary comeback

Rwandan awarded for saving grey crowned cranes

After the explosion

The ghostly traces of supernovae

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after six months on the country's space station

After six months

China's Shenzhou-19 astronauts return to Earth

The waste has been traced to a hospital, businesses, an airline and an upmarket restaurant

Mounds of waste dumped near Athens's main river: NGO

Kenya is short by an estimated 100,000 vials of antivenom per year

Life-saving responses

Kenya's desperate need for more snake antivenom

The rapid thaw of the permafrost is cracking houses and releasing greenhouse gases

Changing landscape

Thawing permafrost dots Siberia with rash of mounds

Activists rally against deep sea mining outside the European Parliament in March 2023

Environmentalists alarmed

Canadian firm makes first bid for international seabed mining license

Plumes of smoke from wildfires, including the Bridge Fire, are seen in the mountains behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline at sunset as seen from Kenneth Hahn Park in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California, on September 10, 2024

'Without cause or a plan'

US climate assessment in doubt as Trump dismisses authors

The tree at Sycamore Gap had stood for nearly 200 years in a dramatic dip in the landscape in northern England

Nature destroyers

Two men in court charged with 'moronic' felling of famed UK tree

Researchers at Chile's gricultural Research Institute's (INIA) Rice Breeding Program have developed a new, less-thirsty strain they call Jaspe

Far from tropical conditions

Less-thirsty rice offers hope in drought-stricken Chile

BP and other oil majors have been hit by a recent slump in crude prices

BP profit drops 70% amid pivot back to oil and gas

A team of scientists believe many of the echidna's unusual traits were first developed millions of years ago when its ancestors splashed through the water

Egg-laying mammals

Study sheds light on origin of Australia's odd echidna

Salmon pens belonging to the Tassal company located off Charlotte Cove, in the d'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania.

Dead salmon create election stink on Australian island

An Atlas V rocket of United Launch Alliance is seen fueling at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 9, 2025

Amazon launches first Starlink-rival internet satellites

A decades-old supply treaty obliges Mexico to provide the United States with water from the Rio Grande river

Diplomatic spat

Mexico agrees to send water to US after Trump threatens tariffs

The US is pushing ahead with efforts to mine the seafloor for valuable minerals, despite ecological and regulatory concerns

France accuses US of violating international law

Trump's deep-sea mining order violates global norms: France

Devastation centred on the second most populous city of Mandalay

Strongest since 1912

Myanmar marks month of misery since historic quake

Sperm shaped confetti rests on the floor after a Sperm Racing competition in Los Angeles, California

US students 'race' sperm in reproductive health stunt

Only a few European laboratories run DNA analysis to test honey

Beekeepers' livelihoods threatened

Austria trials DNA testing to uncover honey fraud

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