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

An Australian couple have criticised Qatar Airways after a blanket-draped corpse was seated next to them during a long-haul flight

Australian says 'wasn't nice' sitting with corpse on long-haul flight

Nauru was once one of the wealthiest places on the planet but lucrative supplies of phosphate deposits have long dried up

Pacific microstate

Nauru sells citizenship to fund climate change mitigation

An Employee of ViaMobilidade - a company that manages subway and train lines in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area - takes the temperature of railway tracks in Osasco, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on February 24, 2025

Paint them white: how Brazil is keeping trains on track

Previous global talks on protecting nature broke up without agreement last year

'Matter of survival': Nations spar over nature funding at UN talks

This asteroid now has just a 0.001 percent chance of hitting Earth a few days before Christmas in 2032

Chance huge asteroid will hit Earth down to 0.001 percent

The UAE's population is concentrated in the coastal cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah

Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rain

Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, the disease sickened an estimated three to four million Americans annually and killed hundreds

Growing distrust

Fears of US public health crises grow amid falling vaccination rates

Pipes are stacked at the southern site of the Keystone XL pipeline in Cushing, Oklahoma in March 2012

Reversing course

Trump calls for revival of Keystone XL Pipeline project axed by Biden

The Canadian Arctic is seen near Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories

Rich in resources

'All eyes on Arctic': Canada boosts its northern force

In this handout image courtesy of Greg Blee, debris from the SpaceX Starship is seen in the sky near Providenciales, Turks and Caicos on January 16, 2025

Pending regulatory approval

SpaceX targeting Friday for next test of Starship megarocket

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) confront bulldozers working on the new oil pipeline in an effort to make them stop on September 3, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota

US oil pipeline operator

Greenpeace trial begins in North Dakota in key free speech case

CEO Tim Cook, seen here in 2023, said Apple is 'bullish on the future of American innovation'

'Largest-ever spend commitment'

Apple says to invest $500 bn in US as Trump tariffs bite

Major emerging economies are seeing rising carbon emissions

Nearly 200 nations present

US shuns climate science meeting as UN warns 'time is not on our side'

Record snowfall for February

Japan warns of avalanches, icy roads ahead of more snow

Clothing workshops in southern China have seen orders surge in recent years as e-commerce platforms Shein and Temu take the United States by storm

Straining businesses

Trump tariffs shake up China's factory heartland

French farmers are feeling unloved

France's agriculture show, an outlet for angry farmers

New Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vocal vaccine skeptic, has repeatedly and falsely linked the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism, a claim widely debunked by scientific research

Figure expected to rise

Texas measles outbreak reaches 90, mostly unvaccinated

Cook Islands leader Mark Brown (L), pictured in 2024, says a deal with China supports a broader pact on cooperation in trade, investment and the seabed minerals sector

No mining licence however

Cook Islands strikes deal with China on seabed minerals

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House

AP sues White House officials over denial of access

Los Angeles city fire chief Kristen Crowley has been sacked by the city's mayor, Karen Bass, over apparent leadership failures during deadly blazes that swept through the city

Leadership failure

LA mayor sacks fire chief over handling of deadly blazes

Cuba has inaugurated a new solar energy park in the capital Havana

Cuba opens solar park hoping to stave off blackouts

Seeping lava and gleaming white snow has proven irresistible to tourists at Mt. Etna.

Sicily's most famous volcano

Ill-prepared trekkers swarm Mt Etna for high-altitude selfies

A brown bear on the loose after injuring four people in Sapporo, Hokkaido prefecture, in 2021

Sightings hit record levels

Japan cabinet approves 'emergency' urban bear shootings

A file photo taken 27 August 2003 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Mars snapped within minutes of the planet's closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years

Aiming for the stars

Moon or Mars? NASA's future at a crossroads under Trump

USAID has since 2012 committed a $66 million grant to uplift Sindh's municipal services, including the flagship renovation of a water purifying and pumping plant

Surpassing 50°C temperatures

Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in scorching Pakistan city

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen speaks at the Kennedy Space Center in August 2023

Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over 'abandoned' ISS crew

Najin is one of only two northern rhinos left on Earth -- for now at least

'We will save them': The quest to rescue nearly extinct rhino

Six elephants died after a train hit them on the tracks and then derailed at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka

Six animals killed

Sri Lanka train derailed after smashing into elephants

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