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Storm clouds over the Indonesian capital Jakarta in July last year. The country endured the hottest year on record in 2024

Indonesia says 2024 was hottest year on record

Turbines like these off the north coast of Wales are expected to help wind power become UK’s single-largest source of electricity in 2025

Low fossil fuel output

UK electricity cleanest on record in 2024: study

Thick smog blankets Hanoi, obscuring buildings and leaving nine million residents choking on toxic air

Vietnam's capital blanketed by toxic smog

A conservationist inspects a sapling planted at Chile's largest botanical gardens following a devastating fire

Disaster-hit Chilean park sows seeds of fire resistance

A handout photograph from Oxford University's Museum of Natural History shows the excavation team working on one of some 200 dinosaur footprints found at a quarry north of Oxford last summer

One big pile of prints

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site uncovered

A strontium atomic clock, pictured in a lab at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States

Unprecedented time measuring

Secret lab developing UK's first quantum clock: defence ministry

Thanks to government incentives, electric cars have surged in Oslo and across Norway

Close to full electric

Electric cars took 89% of Norway market in 2024

Persimmons are popular in Taiwan but changing weather and an ageing population are posing a threat to the century-old industry

Blooming hard: Taiwan's persimmon growers struggle

Thick plumes of smoke at times clouded major cities including Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo last year

42 percent more than 2023

Brazil's Amazon saw highest number of fires in 17 years: agency

The WHO has repeatedly called on China to offer more information on Covid-19's origins

Responding to allegations

China says shared Covid information 'without holding anything back'

Annual average of 24.9°C

Taiwan says 2024 was hottest year on record

A US man receives a coronavirus vaccine

No progress without transparency

Five years on, WHO urges China to share Covid origins data

Francois Bayrou said Mayotte should be rebuilt within two years

'Mayotte standing'

French premier promises concrete aid for cyclone-hit Mayotte

Massive waves are pummeling the coasts of Ecuador and Peru

'An extreme event'

Three dead as massive waves slam Peru, Ecuador and Chile

A colorized transmission electron micrograph of avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (blue), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells

Alarming experts

New bird flu mutation discovered in US as cat infections cause alarm

The disappearance of lush forests has made slums more visible

Scenes of desolation

Mayotte faces environment, biodiversity crisis after cyclone

Many countries were hit by record-breaking floods, cyclones and other climate-related disasters in 2024

Devastating effects

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024

Australian firefighters say they are fighting to control a bushfire racing through a national park that has consumed an area the size of Singapore

74,000 hectares

Australian bushfire burns area the size of Singapore

Brazilian officials say acid-filled chemical tankers that plunged into the river in a bridge collapse remain intact

Contaminated river

Acid risk contained in deadly Brazil bridge collapse

A picture released by the NGO Coast 2 Coast Movement shows workers cleaning up Peru's Las Capullanas beach after an oil spill

Northern coastline

Oil leak in Peru tourist zone triggers 'environmental emergency'

Mourners react as they gather at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh Province 20 years after the tsunami

From Indonesia to Somalia

Tears, prayers as Asia mourns tsunami dead 20 years on

Australian firefighters battle blaze in Grampians National Park west of Melbourne

Grampians National Park

Rural communities urged to flee east Australia bushfire

The tsunami devastated communities around the Indian Ocean

A lookback on deadly event

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: what to know 20 years on

The most devastating cyclone to hit Mayotte in 90 years caused colossal damage on December 14 in France's poorest department

Cyclone death toll in Mayotte rises to 39

Graphic on NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which made its closest-ever approach of the star on December 24, 2024

Launched in August 2018

NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun

Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been devoted to protecting the little known and at risk mammals

Little known mammals

Saving the mysterious African manatee at Cameroon hotspot

Thailand has installed buoys far off its coast that have become a crucial part of a global tsunami warning system since the devastating 2004 earthquake and tsunami

Global information system

The tsunami detection buoys safeguarding lives in Thailand

Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, is one of the world's most active volcanoes

Springing into life

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts, spewing columns of lava

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