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

Corals and amphibians are among the species hit hardest, with more than 40 percent of each group under threat in the IUCN's last update

Top conservation group meets in UAE on growing threats to nature

Offshore wind giant Orsted said its global workforce would fall from 8,000 today to 6,000 by the end of 2027

Amid US struggles

Danish wind giant Orsted to cut workforce by a quarter

Atxu Marima was born into one of Brazil's uncontacted Indigenous groups

Intrusive 'civilization'

'Let them live in peace': survivor's fight for uncontacted Amazon people

Renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall died at the age of 91

Netflix interview

Jane Goodall's final wish: blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space

Smart people are everywhere, if only they can be given opportunity, says Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi

Born into a family of Palestinian

From refugee to Nobel: Yaghi hails science's 'equalizing force'

A demonstration of the holey nature of metal-organic frameworks, a revolutionary discovery that has earned three scientists the chemistry Nobel

'Revolutionary'

'Solids full of holes': Nobel-winning materials explained

Although first announced in 2011, work has yet to start on the waterway itself

Planned project

Canal Istanbul stirs fear and uncertainty in nearby villages

The floods followed heavy rain from Typhoon Matmo which hit northern Vietnam hard

Just north of Hanoi

Thousands stranded as record floods submerge Vietnam streets

The Nobel chemistry prize was awarded to trio for work on metal-organic frameworks

Developed metal–organic frameworks

Trio wins chemistry Nobel for new form of molecular architecture

India's rhino population has almost tripled in the past four decades thanks to conservation and anti-poaching efforts, from 1,500 to more than 4,000 today

Wildlife flee as floods swamp Indian parks

Record floods submerged streets in several communities in Vietnam on Wednesday, with at least eight people killed this week

Record flooding hits Vietnam city, eight killed in north

A bear entered a supermarket in Numata, north of Tokyo and lightly injured two customers

Dangerous animal

Bear injures two in Japan supermarket, man killed in separate attack

It has long been known that depression is more common in women, but the biological causes remain something of a mystery

Australia researchers

Study finds women have higher genetic risk of depression

Scientists have found the oceans around New Zealand are warming, rising, and turning more acidic

New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: report

A venomous snake preserved at the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Snakebite surge as Bangladesh hit by record rains

John Clarke, an emeritus physics professor at University of California, Berkeley, was named a Nobel laureate for his groundbreaking work on quantum mechanics

Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research

The new physics Nobel laureates laid the groundwork for the development of superconducting quantum bits, such as those used in Google's Sycamore processor

Bizarre barrier-defying phenomenon

Observing quantum weirdness in our world: Nobel physics explained

Indian tea pickers: the country is the world's second-largest producer, and third-largest black tea exporter

Heavy blow to region

Extreme rains hit India's premier Darjeeling tea estates

Photo courtesy of Xiong JinXin shows hikers making their way through deep snow in the Karma Valley of the Tibet Autonomous Region on October 5, following sudden heavy snowfall hit the region

Near Mount Everest

One hiker dead, hundreds rescued after heavy snowfall in China

The Stockholm-based Nobel Committee struggled to reach two of this year's medicine laureates -- one is thought to be hiking

'Living his best life'

Unreachable Nobel winner hiking 'off the grid'

German carmakers are struggling to shift to selling electric vehicles because of stiff Chinese competition and consumer resistance

EU should scrap ban on new combustion-engine sales: Merz

A tranquilised leopard lies inside a cage, after it was caught wandering into a hotel in West Java, sparking panic among guests

Spotted by guests

Leopard captured after wandering into Indonesian hotel

Nepal has deployed security forces with helicopters and motorboats to assist the rescue efforts

Rescuers scramble to deliver aid after deadly Nepal, India floods

Tajik labourer Nematoullo Bassirov shows garbage he scooped from the stream running through his yard mountainous Central Asian country.

Soviet infrastructure

Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan's water struggles

Appetite-suppressing hormones have been made famous recently with the release of blockbuster weight-loss drugs

Leading the race

Appetite-regulating hormones in focus as first Nobel Prizes fall

Nepal has deployed helicopters and security personnel to assist rescue efforts

Race to rescue survivors

Landslides and floods kill 64 in Nepal, India

A team from Canada's fisheries ministry patrols the Grand River, near Lake Erie, looking for invasive carp

Invasive species

Americans, Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp

Ethiopia has rejected Egypt's claim that its Nile megadam triggered floods in Sudan as 'false'

Accused of flooding

Ethiopia hits back at 'false' Egyptian claims over mega-dam

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