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

An engineer works on a sample at the Pasteur institute's biological emergency response cell in April 2024

Hoping to boost readiness

UK officials publish 'priority pathogen' watch list

Gum gets some of its chewiness from polymers similar to those used in car tyres

Rubber-based sweet

Chewing gum releases microplastics into mouth: researchers

The regions of Nuble, Biobio, Araucania and Los Rios were affected by the fires

Several regions affected

Dozens of fires rage in southern Chile

On Sunday, 38-year-old Yoko was flown to Brazil to finally join others of his kind at a sanctuary there

From drug lord to freedom

Colombia's lonely chimp Yoko finds new home in Brazil

The US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland

Coveted territory

Greenland PM denounces US 'foreign interference' ahead of visit

UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima said the withdrawal of US support was having a 'devastating impact'

Global AIDS pandemic

Sudden US aid withdrawal risking millions of lives: UNAIDS chief

Officials have warned that high winds and rising temperatures were hindering efforts to put out the blazes

Four people killed

S. Korea authorities deploy choppers, troops to battle wildfire

Mapuche Indigenous leaders conducted an ancestral ceremony of the Anasazi culture

Santiago, Chile

Indigenous leaders end world voyage with prayer for nature

Demonstrators on boats protested the planned textile factory and the reopening of a copper mine

Environmental risks

'Surf and turf' protest in Spain against factory, mine

An employee inspects heavy machinery that sits unused at the Cobre Panama copper mine

Approved for export

Prospect of copper mine reopening revives tensions in Panama

Five of the past six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, the UN's World Meteorological Organization says

Third consecutive year

World's glacier mass shrank again in 2024, UN says

The European grey wolf is making a comeback in some countries

'Massive stroke of luck'

Unlikely wolf pair sparks row in rural France

Japan's Mount Fuji, known for its perfectly cone-shaped volcano, last erupted in 1707

Disaster awareness

Japan panel drafts response plan for Mount Fuji eruption

Satellite images of polar ice sheets taken in August 2000 (L) and September 2006 show the retreating glacier terminus of the South Cascade Glacier, in photos provided by the US Geological Survey

Probing, measuring, drilling

In US Northwest, South Cascade is where glacier science grew up

Greenpeace has vowed to continue its environmental work despite the ruling

'A dangerous message'

Greenpeace $660mn damages ruling shocks global NGOs

A US Border Patrol officer deploys on the Rio Grande on the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas on January 24, 2025

US refuses water request for Mexico in new battleline

A girl plays in a day care centre in Recklinghausen, western Germany on February 24, 2021

Brain imaging sheds new insight

Infants remember more than you think, new study reveals

The site formerly known as Ilva is one of Europe's biggest steelworks

Azeri company takeover

Italy says Baku Steel submits 'best offer' for ex-Ilva plant

Mount Kenya's Lewis Glacier is rapidly shrinking

Africa's second highest mountain

'It was beautiful': Mount Kenya's glaciers melting away

Grey wolves were virtually exterminated in Europe 100 years ago but their numbers have rebounded since then to the current population of 20,300

Culling 'may be justified'

Spain reverses ban on hunting wolves in north

A Native American protestors holds up his arms as he and other protestors are threatened by private security guards and guard dogs, at a work site for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) oil pipeline, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, September 3, 2016

Nearly a decade on

Greenpeace hit with $660 mn in damages in US pipeline suit

The record-breaking JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant - and therefore oldest - galaxy ever discovered

Over 13.4 billion light years away

Oxygen detected in most distant galaxy: 'astonished' astronomers

Self-proclaimed misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate was banned on Instagram and TikTok for his tirades, but his X account was restored by Elon Musk when the billionaire bought the platform

Return of the alpha male

Why toxic masculinity is gaining prominence

The truth is out there: Scientists hope to crack the case of dark energy in the next few years

Makes up 70% of universe

What is dark energy? One of science's great mysteries, explained

The Gossan reservoir at the Rio Tinto mines in Minas de Riotinto, near Huelva, on September 30, 2022

Unexplored resources

Spain eyes boom in 'neglected' strategic mining sector

Musky rat-kangaroos are a distant ancestor of the larger kangaroo species that famously roam the country's outback

'Musky' marsupial could solve hopping kangaroo mystery

Jen Brinkley has been coming to Ouray to climb in the ice park for three decades

Unlikely savior

Ice park threatened by climate change finds an ally in US silver mine

What if dark energy is not what we thought it was? This strange force could be weakening over time, observations suggest

Rewriting science

Dark energy seems to be changing, rattling our view of universe

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