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

Une soigneuse nourrit des manchots à l'aquarium Sea Life de Londres, le 17 mai 2021

Welfare of 15 penguins in question

'It's un-British': lawmakers raise concerns about aquarium penguins

Fung-wong was the second major typhoon to hit the Philippines in days

Displaced 1.4M people

Philippines digs out from Typhoon Fung-wong as death toll climbs

SAD or just blue?

Experts explain why mental health declines in the darker months

Padraig Walsh, project manager of the Farm Zero C initiative, says farmers 'need more help'

Agriculture biggest greenhouse gas emitter

Ireland's climate battle is being fought in its fields

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said a few tech giants had amassed 'an immense amount of power'

In need of regulation

Concentration of corporate power a 'huge' concern: UN rights chief

A woman and her daughter take a bath in an improvised pool at Vila da Barca, a neighborhood of stilt houses on the banks of the Guama River in Belem

Paradoxical Belem

As COP30 opens, urban Amazon residents swelter

Brazil under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hosting the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference, which is taking place in Belem, a city in the country's Amazon region

Forests, methane, eco-fuels

Brazil's 'action agenda' at COP30 takes shape

A child receives an MMR vaccine

Spreading among unvaccinated groups

Deadly measles surge sees Canada lose eradicated status

Millions of plastic pellets washed up on the beach at Camber Sands in East Sussex, southern England

Blaming treatment facility failure

UK water firm says 'highly likely' behind plastic pellet pollution incident

Dressed in a loincloth made of tree leaves, Curupira has a peculiar trait that might go unnoticed if you don't look down: his feet are turned backward

COP30 has a mascot: the fiery-haired guardian of Brazil's forest

New research rejects Donald Trump's claims that paracetamol is linked to autism

Comprehensive review of existing evidence

No link between paracetamol and autism, major review finds

Entire towns in Cagayan province have been submerged after a river overflowed due to heavy rains brought by Typhoon Fung-wong

At least two killed

Typhoon Fung-wong floods Philippine towns, leaves 5 dead in its wake

The ship wrecked off Hoi An is believed to have been built between the 14th and 16th centuries according to preliminary findings

Narrow window to excavate it

Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port

Easy access to electricity is posing a big challenge to the race for AI dominance, says Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella

The AI revolution has a power problem

A cruise ship sails by Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which has scrubbed its launch for weather issues at the Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Bezos's Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather

New Delhi is regularly ranked among the world's most polluted capitals

'I miss breathing': Delhi protesters demand action on pollution

A Navy soldier patrols the Port of Outeiro, where cruise ships are docked to host delegations attending the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil

UN climate conference

All aboard! Cruise ships ease Belem's hotel dearth

Ahead of COP30 climate summit

'Big Carbon' floods social media with climate-related misinformation

Vantara holds tens of thousands of animals, including some of the world's most endangered species

Inconsistent numbers

India mega-zoo in spotlight again over animal acquisitions

Nereu Sabadini sits on the debris of his house that was destroyed by a tornado in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Brazil

Devastating twister

Tornado kills six, injures 750 as it wrecks southern Brazil town

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva has come to symbolize the tensions within Brazil's government over the uneasy coexistence between developmental pragmatism and protecting the environment

Four Brazilians to watch at COP30

Japan is scrambling to address a surge in bear attacks, but has less than half the number of 'Matagi' hunters it had in 1980

'Almost every day': Japan battles spike in bear attacks

Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, hopes Indigenous peoples will have a leading voice at COP30, which will take place in the Brazilian Amazon

COP30: Indigenous peoples vital to humanity's future, Brazilian minister tells AFP

The twister overturned cars and damaged homes in Rio Bonito do Iguacu, in Brazil's Parana state, according to the local weather service

Overturned cars and damaged homes

Tornado kills six, wrecks town in Brazil

'Correlation is not causation'

Mercury retrograde makes 9 November return

The World Health Organization considers mercury one of the top 10 chemicals of major public health concern, calling it

End of amalgams

Countries agree to end mercury tooth fillings by 2034

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed more than 200 people in the Philippines

Preemptive evacuations began

Philippines halts search for typhoon dead as huge new storm nears

Chinese research vessel Da Yang Hao arrives at Avatiu Harbour in the Cook Islands

'Scientific research cruise'

Chinese ship scouts deep-ocean floor in South Pacific

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