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Just Stop Oil climate activists marched for the last time

Amid change of focus

Just Stop Oil activist group holds final march

The 2025 United Nations (UN) Oceans Conference, seen here with Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivering a speech at the 2022 edition, serves as a nexus for ratifying a 2023 High Seas pact by member nations

UN Oceans Conference

On the horizon? Wave of momentum for high seas treaty

COP30 CEO Ana Toni has urged the EU to remain climate leaders as the 27-nation bloc haggles over its emission reduction targets

Don't make 'disappointing' retreat on climate, COP30 CEO urges EU

China's wind and solar energy capacity has surpassed that of mostly coal-powered thermal for the first time

China says wind and solar energy capacity exceeds thermal for first time

Iraqi farmer Hadi Saheb says he is cultivating 20 times more land than before in the Najaf desert thanks to groundwater and a government initiative

Iraq farmers turn to groundwater to boost desert yield

The initiative marks the 20th International Nomads Festival in M'Hamid El Ghizlane in southeast Morocco

Gateway to desert

Morocco volunteers on Sahara clean-up mission

President Donald Trump seeks to boost US deep-sea mining in part to counter China's dominance in the burgeoning industry

Disrupting ocean floor ecosystems

Trump signs order to ramp up US deep-sea mining

An ancient artifact found in a recently discovered burial site at the Aspero archaeological complex, belonging to the Caral civilization, during a press presentation at the Ministry of Culture in Lima on April 24, 2025

Oldest centre of civilisation in Americas

Remains of 5,000-year-old noblewoman found in Peru dig

The Cobre Panama mine was closed by the courts in 2023 following weeks of crippling protests over its environmental impact

Central America's biggest copper mine

Panama president says moving toward reopening contested mine

The future of renewable energy is causing international disagreements

Amid economic turmoil

US opposes 'dangerous' anti-fossil fuel policies at global summit

Three Chinese astronauts blasted off from a remote desert launch site at the start of a six-month mission to China's space station

Boots on the moon

Three Chinese astronauts blast off for Tiangong space station

Areas affected by fires in the Brasilia National Forest region in Brazil

Gaming the system

Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts: report

Locals use poisoned rats to lure the birds then pounce when they are incapacitated

Protected birds

Ugandans kill migrating storks in desperation for food

China announced Wednesday that a veteran astronaut will lead two crew members this week on their first flight to the Tiangong space station

Mentoring next generation

Veteran Chinese astronaut to lead fresh crew to space station

Corals turn white under heat stress, which causes them to expel the algae which give them bright colours and nutrients

Essential ecosystems

Coral reefs pushed to brink as bleaching crisis worsens

Nguyen Thi Kim sitting on a pillar of a destroyed house at the original site of Lang Nu village in Lao Cai province, after part of it was wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi

Survivors relocated

Vietnam village starts over with climate defences after landslide

The US Supreme Court will decide whether parents have the right to prevent their kids from studying inclusive, LGBTQ-related texts in a case out of public schools in the eastern state of Maryland

Controversial coursework

Top US court leans toward parents in case on LGBTQ books in schools

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) is a documented vaccine skeptic

US official backs off promise to solve cause of autism by September

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says 'significant' jobs will be lost at the UN agency because of US spending cuts

WHO announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts

Khalaf Allah al-Talhi: 'I love roses and take care of them more than I care for my own children'

Signature scent

Saudi 'city of roses' offers fragrant reminder of desert's beauty

A protest against massive cuts in federal research funding takes place on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on April 8, 2025

'Rage against science'

Scientists sound alarm as Trump reshapes US research landscape

Ralph Keeling, whose father, Charles, began collecting data measuring atmospheric CO2 concentration almost seven decades ago

Climate watchers fret over Trump's cut to sciences

A snow leopard, seen here in India's northern Ladakh region in March

Offers a rare shot of hope

Landmark Nepal survey estimates nearly 400 elusive snow leopards

Since their return to power, the Taliban now claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan's millennia-old heritage, including pre-Islamic relics

Pre-Islamic relics

Taliban change tune towards Afghan heritage sites

Soldiers search wrecked cars after flooding in Valencia, Spain, on November 8, 2024

Strategic 'blind spot'

Global warming is a security threat and armies must adapt: experts

An aerial view of the city of Athens on April 18, 2025

Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering Athens

Pope Francis regularly discussed climate change at major events such as the 2023 world Youth Day event in Lisbon

Simplicity, courage, and empathy

Climate campaigners praise a cool pope

Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First party, said the bill would move the country away from

Condemning 'woke ideology'

Draft NZ law seeks 'biological' definition of man, woman

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