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Science & Environment

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

To protect critical infrastructure

University of Luxembourg researchers develop AI-controlled drone swarms

Shankar Balasubramanian (L) and David Klenerman pose ahead of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize award ceremony in Helsinki in 2021

Princess of Asturias award

British scientists among winners of top Spanish award

75,000 specimens

The fossil treasures kept behind the scenes in Luxembourg's Museum of Natural History

One mayor compared the local forests to a 'real powder keg'

'Real powder keg'

After winter storms, fires now threaten Portugal's forests

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking due to climate change

Amid climate change and tourism threats

Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctic talks start in Japan

Our greatest nemesis? By transmitting diseases, mosquitoes kill three quarters of a million people a year

Our greatest nemesis?

What if we killed all mosquitoes?

Mosquitoes are better known as bloodsuckers that spread malaria, dengue and other diseases, but at least some also play a little-known role as pollinators

Little-known pollinators

Mosquitoes: bloodsuckers and flower lovers

Antarctic treaty members meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima are set to focus discussions on climate change and tourism

Climate change and tourism threats

Antarctic talks in Japan: key things to know

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is among the companies named in climate lawsuit threatened by a legal change

'Creating uncertainty in business confidence'

New Zealand moves to halt lawsuits over climate damage

Drunk beer lately? That's just one thing that could make you more attractive to mosquitoes, according to scientists

'Not a misconception'

Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging

Infant vaccination in Indonesia dropped off sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic

Anti-vaccine sentiment on the rise

Vitamins over vaccines: misinformation entrenched amid Indonesia measles surge

View of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with a bacteria that prevents them from spreading dengue

As climate change accelerates spread

Dengue outpaces virus-blocking mosquitoes in Brazil

A Southern right whale shown off Muizenberg Beach in False Bay, Cape Town on October 11, 2013

Shifting sea traffic into their habitats

Middle East conflicts a danger for whales off S.Africa: study

Rocky exoplanet

James Webb reveals the surface of an alien world

St George's Ocean Symposium in Luxembourg

More than 240 students took part

St George's hosts Ocean Symposium in honour of Sir David Attenborough

The bears are now thriving at an animal rescue centre in Armenia's highlands

They need to feel 'wild'

Caged and fed 'cookies': Rescuing Armenia's captive bears

Royal Malaysian Air Force personnel start the cloud seeding process during a flight over Kedah in 2019

Malaysia plans cloud seeding for drought-hit 'rice bowl'

Oceans absorb around 90 percent of the excess heat generated by human activity.

May looks set to break own record

EU monitor says sea temperatures near all-time highs as El Nino looms

The sapu-sapu was introduced to Indonesia from South America, brought in to keep aquariums algae free but chucked into rivers as they outgrew their tanks

Adept at living in polluted water

Troubled waters: Jakarta battles deadly, invasive suckerfish

Former fishermen have opted to revive Colombia's coral reefs instead of destroying them

'For me, a coral is life now'

Colombian ex-fisherman swaps trade for saving Caribbean coral

An artist's impression of the object (612533) 2002 XV93, a world beyond Pluto that astronomers believe could have an atmosphere

'We need more data'

Mysterious world beyond Pluto may have an atmosphere: astronomers

An aerial photo shows the rescued humpback whale in a special barge along the Danish coastline

Divisive rescue mission

Humpback whale stranded in Germany released into North Sea: media

Gradual phase-out

EU to ban lead in fishing lures

Between twilight and summer

The May night sky in Luxembourg

Turkey's incoming COP31 president Murat Kurum told AFP that just telling countries to phase out of fossil fuels 'is not realistic'

Voluntary 'roadmap'

Just telling nations to quit fossil fuels 'not realistic': COP31 chief

Two-thirds of France's electricity came from nuclear plants in 2025 while solar, wind and hydropower accounted for around a quarter last year

Clear and comprehensive plan

France's 'roadmap' to exit fossil fuels by 2050

A fishing boat in the Huwaizah Marshes of southern Iraq as water levels rise following long-awaited rains

Revived wetlands

Much-needed rains revive Iraq's fabled Mesopotamian Marshes

Colombia is hosting the first global conference on the transition away from fossil fuels.

Reflects growing impatience

Exiting fossil fuels key to energy security: nations at Colombia talks

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