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Palau's president wants US leader Donald Trump to come snorkelling with him to understand climate change

Archipelago off coast of Philippines

Snorkel with me to understand climate change, Palau president tells Trump

'Deceptive allegations'

Morocco fights measles outbreak amid vaccine misinformation

Located in a basin surrounded by mountains, Ulaanbaatar traps smoke and fumes from both coal-guzzling power stations and homes

Grim statistics

Mongolia's children choke in toxic pollution

US Space Force Colonel Bree Fram poses at her home in Reston, Virginia on March 9, 2025

'Unfit' to serve

Once accepted, trans troops face dismissal from US military

Colombia is the world's main producer of cocaine, which is extracted from the coca leaf

Unleashing full potential

Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list

An undated handout photo released by the University of Queensland shows an image of the boulder using 3D imaging and light filters showing the dinosaur footprints

Unnoticed for 20 years

Trove of dinosaur footprints found at Australian school

'Reduction in force'

NASA fires chief scientist, more Trump cuts to come

Investigations have already started into what led the cargo ship to strike the tanker carrying jet fuel

Toxic materials ablaze

UK makes manslaughter arrest of ship captain over North Sea crash

Demonstrators protest against the Ceraweek by S&P Global energy conference, near the hotel where the conference is being attended, in Houston, Texas, on March 10, 2025

'Realistic' approach

Oil companies greet Trump return, muted on tariffs

Scientists protest in Washington square park in New York City on March 7, 2025

Scientists say Trump cuts threaten climate research, public safety

A rescued two-month-old male wild Sumatran elephant, separated from its mother in a palm oil plantation, sleeps

On the brink of extinction

Baby elephant separated from mother rescued in Indonesia

A general view of the marshes of Donana National Park, in Almonte, Huelva, on February 28, 2025

Following abundant rainfall

Spain near end of four-year drought: weather agency

Pakistan regularly ranks among the world's most polluted countries

20 times above safe levels

'Really suffocating': Pakistan emerges from record smog season

Guatemala's Fuego volcano is located 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the capital Guatemala City

Families seek refuge

Guatemala volcanic eruption deemed over after spewing lava, evacuations

Energex crews clear a fallen tree following the passage of tropical cyclone Alfred in Brisbane on March 8, 2025.

120,000 properties still blacked out in storm-hit Australia

View of the North Sea between the turrets of the entrance to the old pier in Withernsea, on the east coast of England near where a collision between a tanker and a cargo ship caused multiple explosions

Rescue mission has ended

What we know about the North Sea tanker collision

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright addresses attendees of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates conference in Houston, Texas

To favor fossil fuels

Trump's energy chief vows reversal of Biden climate policies

Veteran climate diplomat Andre Correa do Lago of Brazil has been appointed president of the next UN climate summit, being hosted in the South American nation

Limitations of global negotiations

UN climate summits must deliver on promises: COP30 head

Raifall dumped by Cyclone Alfred on Australia's east coast led to flash flood warnings and power outages

Floods hit eastern Australia, 190,000 properties blacked out

Industry experts are skeptical that oil companies will significantly ramp up drilling in spite of Donald Trump's calls for more production

Championing fossil fuels

Energy industry meets after Trump tears up US green agenda

Scientists protested in New York City against funding cuts

French research groups urged to welcome scientists fleeing US

Floodwaters reach the levee walls protecting the city of Lismore on Australia's eastern coast

Millions without power

Floods, mass power cuts as wild weather bashes eastern Australia

Rescuers wade through floodwaters following a heavy storm that hit the Argentinian port city of Bahia Blanca

Argentina port city 'destroyed' by massive rainstorm, 13 dead

An aerial view of the flooding in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, on March 7, 2025

Devastating rain and floods

'We have to rebuild a city,' Argentine official says after storm kills 10

The skyline of Qatar's capital Doha, which like other Gulf Arab states is in an arid desert region

Following US threats

Attack on Iran nuclear plant would leave Gulf without water, Qatar PM warns

A pro-abortion rights activist holds a box of mifepristone during a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in March 2024 -- the use of such pills is the next front for the anti-abortion movement in the United States

US states prepare for battle over abortion pills

Current Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent decades falsely linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism -- a claim thoroughly debunked by scientific research

Travel warning issued

Two dead, nearly 230 sick in US measles outbreak: authorities

Torrential rain killed at least six people and left much of the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca under water

Ten dead, hundreds evacuated in Argentina floods

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