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

James Watson speaks during a press conference at the Science museum in London, 20 May 2005

James Watson, Nobel prize-winning DNA pioneer, dead at 97

Rooted in the idea that a small elite of premium flyers should pay more for their outsized contribution to global warming, the proposal will likely pit them against the powerful aviation industry

Potential luxury tax law

At COP30, nations target the jet set with luxury flight tax

The Dutch have dealt with flooding for centuries

Five-day exercise

Operation Cloudburst: Dutch train for 'water bomb' floods

Italian and Japanese experts estimate the tree to be 3,000 to 5,500 years old

Amid Israeli occupation

West Bank's ancient olive tree a 'symbol of Palestinian endurance'

Expedition chief Evan Miles (right) and fellow glaciologist Stanislav Kutuzov (left in blue) supervise the drilling

Pamir mountain range

Big leap in quest to get to bottom of climate ice mystery

This aerial view shows a field fire in Sao Felix do Xingu, Para state, Brazil, on June 20, 2025

Tropical Forests Forever Facility

World leaders launch fund to save forests, get first $5 bn

Brazilian president and host Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva referred to

'Moral failure': Leaders seek to rally world at Amazon climate talks

People walk under a misting system on a hot day in Tokyo earlier this year, which is on track to become one of the hottest in recorded history, according to the UN

As greenhouse gases grow to record highs

UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record

The typhoon is looming as central Vietnam still reels from more than a week of flooding and record rains

127 people still missing

Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Vietnam after killing 140 in Philippines

Hurricane Melissa caused floods in Jamaica in October

Failing to curb emissions

Facing climate 'overshoot', world heads into risky territory

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Understanding the November beaver supermoon

Field fires -- like this one in June 2025 in Sao Felix do Xingu, Para state, Brazil -- is a cheap way to clear pastures

Cultural shift needed

Who is setting fire to the Amazon?

Acai is the emblematic fruit of the city of Belem

In Brazilian Amazon

Five things to know about 'forest COP' host city Belem

Advantages of putting data centers in space include a constant supply of solar energy and ease of cooling the power-hungry operations

Eyes turn to space to feed power-hungry data centers

Japan deployed troops in a northern region hit by a spate of deadly bear attacks, which have reached record levels with 12 people killed and more than 100 injured since April

Japan deploys troops after wave of deadly bear attacks

Brazil is backing the creation of a global investment fund that would reward tropical countries for protecting their forests

Tropical Forests Forever Facility

Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30

The EU agreed to target a 90-percent cut in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2040, compared to 1990 levels, after marathon overnight talks

Criticised by environmentalists

EU strikes last-ditch deal on climate targets as COP30 looms

Russia has more forest than any other country on Earth

Natural defence at risk

UN says forests should form key plank of COP30

French environment minister Monique Barbut warned turning up empty-handed to the UN's COP30 talks in Belem would spell 'disaster' for the EU

Would 'undermine credibility'

No deal yet on EU climate targets as COP30 looms

Non-fossil fuels hit half of India's installed energy capacity, but that has not translated into generation

Climate diplomacy heavyweight

Green goals versus growth needs: India's climate scorecard

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) and his Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, chat during a meeting in Belem

Climate comeback

Brazil's climate wins ahead of COP30

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks with foreign media ahead of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil on November 4, 2025

1,5-degree treshold might be met by 2035

Brazil's Lula urges less talk, more action at COP30 climate meet

The United Nations says that big polluting nations are not cutting greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to keep global warming within safer levels.

Catastrophic consequences

World on track to dangerous warming as emissions hit record high: UN

China is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases but is also installing more renewable energy sources than any other country

Living contradiction

Biggest emitter, record renewables: China's climate scorecard

Belem in northern Brazil is known as the gateway to the Amazon rainforest

Decade since Paris Agreement

Trees, targets and trillions: what's on the agenda at COP30?

Born and raised on the banks of the Tapajos River in northern Brazil, where he opened the first of his six restaurants, Jennings says that sustainability, for him, is about balance

Rainforest flavours

Why an Amazon chef said no to a vegan dinner for Prince William event

Climate change and nature are issues the 43-year-old heir has long championed

Prince William plays football, volleyball in Rio on climate trip

Residents help move food supplies at a community center before distribution to the Whitehouse community in Westmoreland, Jamaica, one of the areas most severely affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa

One week after landfall

Jamaicans mobilize aid in aftermath of Melissa's wreckage

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