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A decline in Amazon deforestation under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is credited with helping Brazil achieve its biggest annual fall in greenhouse gas emissions in 15 years

Greenhouse gases

Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years: report

Esther (L) and Rio (R) are just two of the many chimpanzees the park has saved

Sierra Leone chimpanzee sanctuary reopens after deforestation protest

Britain's Prince William joined Rio de Janeiro's mayor Eduardo Paes on the famous Sugarloaf Mountain at the start of a visit raising awareness of global climate issues

Receiving keys to the city

Prince William awed by Rio on climate-focused trip to Brazil

Thousands of residents have been evacuated on the Philippines' Samar island as Typhoon Kalmaegi neared

Due to make landfall

Tens of thousands shelter as typhoon slams into Philippines

Using eight electrolysers powered by solar and wind energy, the plant will produce around eight tonnes of hydrogen a day in its first phase

HySynergy project

Denmark inaugurates rare low-carbon hydrogen plant

Mazon resigned a year after the Valencia floods, Spain's deadliest natural disaster in a generation

Spain regional leader resigns, a year after deadly floods

Plastic-wrapped waste bales stored outside a recycling plant on the Greek island of Corfu, part of a groundbreaking waste-management programme

As clock ticks down, Greece tries to clean up its act on waste

The CMS-03 satellite is an upgraded version of the rocket that launched India's unmanned craft that landed on the Moon in August 2023

Ambitious programme

India space agency launches its heaviest satellite

Each winter, thick smog chokes New Delhi and its 30 million residents

Very little rainfall

India's cloud seeding trials 'costly spectacle'

The United States has confirmed it will not send any top-level officials to the COP30 climate talks in Brazil

Trump instead boosts fossil fuels

US not sending any high-level officials to COP30

3I/ATLAS

A visitor from another star

What 3I/ATLAS really is – and what it definitely is not

Milky Way in Schimpach (Eislek)

No telescope needed

Long nights and a meteor shower: Your guide to November's skies

Engineering students and guests watch robots battle it out at Iran's Tech Olympics

Iranian tech prodigies battle it out with robots

Three-month mission

Explorers seek ancient Antarctica ice in climate change study

US President Donald Trump first made his surprise testing announcement by social media post

Surprise directive

Trump keeps world guessing with shock nuclear test order

An aerial view seen October 29, 2025 shows the destroyed Black River Market and surrounding buildings following the passage the previous day of Hurricane Melissa in Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica

Bearing down on Bermuda

Nearly 50 dead after Hurricane Melissa thrashes Caribbean

Chinese astronauts readied to depart for the country's space station, including China's youngest astronaut Wu Fei, aboard the Shenzhou-21 spaceship due to blast off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert

Headed for Tiangong

China holds send-off ceremony for space station astronauts

Camels can be milked five times a day, making them a valuable source of nutrition

No rain since April

Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought

Left abandoned and ravaged throughout Ivory Coast's decade of war and unrest, Comoe National Park is slowly coming back to life

Comoe National Park

Endangered across west Africa, leopards thrive in I.Coast reserve

Despite the risks to wildlife, young Ivorians are drawn to the Comoe National Park's rich veins of gold

Allure to illegal activity

Risky gold rush drives young into Ivory Coast nature park

The Comoe National Park has recovered from its crisis decade thanks in part to its forest rangers

Country ravaged by war

Pillaged I.Coast nature reserve on the mend after crisis decade

Gina McCarthy previously served as a climate advisor to former president Joe Biden, and as ex-president Barack Obama's environment chief

Intending to deliver on promises

100 US local leaders will attend COP30 in 'show of force'

Brazil is home to the largest share of the Amazon rainforest which is considered crucial in the fight against climate change

For fourth straight year

Brazil boasts drop in deforestation ahead of UN climate talks

The United States already periodically tests nuclear weapons delivery systems, such as during the February 2020 launch of a Minuteman III missile

Controversy and confusion

Trump's order on nuclear testing: what we know

Mafalda Duarte, head of the UN's Green Climate Fund defended the use of loans -- a touchy topic given concerns about increasing lower income nations' debt

Due to red-tape-cutting reforms

UN climate fund posts record year as chief defends loans

Major flooding in central Vietnam killed 10 people this week and turned streets in Hoi An into canals after a major river reached a 60-year high

Major river reaches 60-year high

Record Vietnam floods kill 10, turn streets into canals

A family salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa’s passage through Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Still 'extremely dangerous'

Caribbean reels from 'unprecedented' hurricane destruction

A staff member attends a press conference of the Shenzhou-21 Manned Space Mission one day before the mission's launch

Next manned flight

China to send youngest astronaut, mice on space mission this week

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