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

NGOs argue that airlines should have emission warnings on ads, like the health warnings for tobacco and alcohol

Amid greenwashing trials

European airlines drop vague promises on carbon offsets

Since the project began, roughly 340,000 images have passed through the lab.

Fragile reminders

After deadly floods, Spaniards fight to save photos

Total rebranded to TotalEnergies in 2021 to emphasise its diversification into wind turbines and solar panels

Overstating climate pledges

Paris verdict due in TotalEnergies 'greenwashing' case

Industrial plastic pellets washed up on a Catalonian beach in 2024

Light, buoyant, and insoluble

EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup

French mountaineers Benjamin Vedrines and Nicolas Jean make their way to the summit of Jannu East in Nepal

Sidewards, not upwards

Nepal's 'hidden' mountains draw new wave of climbers

Borneo island is home to orangutans, long-nosed monkeys, clouded leopards, pig-tailed macaques, flying fox-bats and the smallest rhinos on the planet

Amid legislation postponement

EU timber imports linked to deforestation on Indonesia's Borneo: NGOs

No snow, no problem: Biathletes on rollerskates compete in the

Athletes swap skis for skates in a glimpse of winter sport's future

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has come under fire from conservationists who argue his oil expansion plans clash with his image as a global leader on climate change

'Massive biodiversity loss'

Brazil greenlights oil drilling in sensitive Amazon region

The Valencia floods killed 237 people, making them Spain's worst natural disaster in a generation

Rain as a painful reminder

One year on, Spain's flood survivors rebuild and remember

New Delhi and its sprawling metropolitan region are regularly ranked among the world's most polluted capitals

16 times recommended pollution limit

Toxic haze chokes Indian capital

Ruth Deidree Boelan prays for her relatives who went missing in recent flooding when their home on a riverbank collapsed

Worst in a decade

Flood reckoning for Bali on overdevelopment, waste

Some of Taft's 7,000 residents are anticipating a comeback for the petroleum industry in California

Make oil great again

California's oil capital hopes for a renaissance under Trump

China is installing solar and wind power at a rate that outstrips the rest of the world combined

Booming industries

China's power paradox: record renewables, continued coal

Chen Ning Yang,who won the Nobel Prize for physics, has died in China aged 103

Scientist and recipient of Physics Nobel Prize

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang dies aged 103: Chinese state media

Countries voted in April for a global pricing system to curb carbon emissions from shipping

After Trump threats

US sinks international deal on decarbonising ships

Parkinson’s experts gather at the University of Luxembourg

10 years of NCER-PD

Luxembourg research team advances Parkinson’s prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

The London-based IMO, which is the shipping body of the United Nations, voted in April for a global pricing system to help curb maritime carbon emissions

Global pricing system

US sinks international deal on decarbonising ships

An aerial view of the flooded town of Tlacotepec in Mexico's Hidalgo state

Areas remain disconnected

Mexican national Guard aids towns isolated by flood that killed 70

Sixteen brain organoids, connected to electrodes, inside an incubator at the lab of Swiss start-up FinalSpark

Cannot be rebooted

'Wetware': Scientists use human mini-brains to power computers

Brazilian sailor Tamara Klink poses on her sailboat 'Sardinha 2' as she completed her trip through the Northwest Passage

No icebreaker required

'Less and less sea ice': Brazil woman sails solo through Arctic

Wildfires fuelled by climate change have driven a rise in global greenhouse emissions

Climate change fans the flames

'Bigger, hotter, faster': extreme blazes drive rise in CO2 fire emissions

Last week an adult bear entered a supermarket in Numata, Gunma, north of Tokyo

'Largest toll since 2006'

Fatal bear attacks in Japan hit record number

The almost complete skeleton of the small long-necked reptile, named

Andes Mountains

One of world's oldest dinosaurs discovered in Argentina

Each winter, Delhi is blanketed in acrid smog, a toxic mix of crop-burning, factory emissions and choking traffic

India's pollution refugees fleeing Delhi's toxic air

Rainforests in Australia's northern tropics are no longer acting as net carbon sinks, according to new research.

'Very concerning' trend

Australian rainforests no longer a carbon sink: study

The implosion of the Titan submersible in 2023 killed all five passengers onboard

US agency blames faulty engineering for Titanic sub disaster

A court ruled that while youth plaintiffs had presented 'overwhelming' evidence the administration's actions would further destabilize the climate, their case 'must be made to the political branches or to the electorate'

Fossil fuel expansion

Judge 'reluctantly' tosses youth case challenging Trump climate policies

The jump in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year is the highest ever recorded, according to the UN

Biggest one-year jump

CO2 in the atmosphere up by record amount in 2024: UN

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