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

A protester holds up his arms in front of private security guards and guard dogs at a work site for the Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota in September 2016

Targeting Greenpeace

Jury deliberates US pipeline case with free speech implications

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) said its own technical analysis has revealed 'alarming' consequences for the telescopes that form part of its Paranal Observatory from a green energy project billed for the Atacama desert

European star-gazing agency says Chile green power plant will ruin its view

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

Call for caution

Talks on divisive deep-sea mining resume in Jamaica

A tugboat accompanies the stricken Solong cargo ship following a devastating crash in the North Sea

Recovery efforts underway

Plastic pellets spotted in water after North Sea ship crash

The buildings sector consumes 32% of the world's energy and contributes 34% of CO2 emissions

'More and faster': UN calls to shrink buildings' carbon footprint

Lliuya wants RWE to share the cost of protecting his hometown from flood risks

David v Goliath battle

Peruvian farmer demands 'climate justice' from German energy giant

The Webb telescope as it left Earth in 2021

130 light years away

Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO2 for first time

NASA duo Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck aboard the ISS since June

Stuck for nine months

Stranded US astronauts to return to Earth on Tuesday: NASA

A handout image released by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on March 15 shows a damaged marina on Clearwater Lake near Piedmont, Missouri

Overwhelming damage

Toll from US weekend tornadoes rises to at least 40

Miliband is the third minister in Starmer's cabinet to visit China

Forced labour in supply chains

UK energy minister in Beijing seeks to press China on emissions

A record influx of foreign tourists to Japan has sparked alarm about overcrowding on the nation's highest mountain

From this summer

Mount Fuji hikers to be charged $27 on all trails

Brilliant minds

Young scientists shine at 54th annual national competition in Luxembourg

Polymetallic nodules and an abyssal urchin

In the lightless abyss

'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists

A carnivorous sponge near the nodule-strewn seabed of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Strange and rare animals

Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows

The experimental sail uses wind to help power the cargo ship to reduce fuel use

Across the Atlantic

Wind-powered mast to cut emissions sets sail to Canada

Hungry for zircon: The world's biggest mining dredger rig is so big it moves by being floated on its own lake

Acre after acre

Giant mine machine swallowing up Senegal's fertile coast

Gian Paolo Daguer is nicknamed Colombia's 'Lord of the Fruit' for his efforts to protect natural delicacies such as the lucuma from disappearing

Environmental engineer

Colombia's 'Lord of the Fruit' fighting for native species

Infographic showing exploration areas licensed by the International Seabed Authority

International waters

Why are proposed deep-sea mining rules so contentious?

Unusually high winter temperatures across Greece are about to plunge to freezing, dealing a blow to agriculture

Greece rides a weather 'rollercoaster'

Violent storms destroyed homes including here in Missouri

At least 33 dead as tornadoes ravage central US

SpaceX Crew Dragon docked with the International Space Station to reach astronauts that have been stranded for more than nine months

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with ISS to reach stranded astronauts

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub has championed the use of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery

Protecting US policies

Carbon capture industry tweaks message for the Trump era

This handout picture from the Ecuadoran municipality of Esmeraldas shows the effects of the oil spill in the Esmeraldas River

Rationing drinking water

Oil spill in Ecuador river brings emergency declaration

Severe weather damage near Bakersfield, Missouri after a major storm

Further tornadoes forecast

Major storm in central US leaves at least 18 dead

Starship (pictured during a test flight) -- the world's largest and most powerful rocket -- is key to Elon Musk's long-term vision of colonizing Mars

With humanoid robots onboard

Musk says Starship to depart for Mars at end of 2026

Official estimates suggest that about a third of all crops in Sri Lanka are eaten or destroyed by wild animals

Nationwide census

Sri Lanka counts nuisance wildlife in bid to protect crops

This screengrab image from NASA's live broadcast shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida bound for the International Space Station

One step closer

Crew launch to ISS paves way for 'stranded' astronauts' return

Floodgates and expansion tanks have been opened to ease the pressure on the Arno, the river that runs through Florence and Pisa

Dozens evacuated in Italy's flood-hit Tuscany

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