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Chimpanzees consume alcohol daily

Nine deaths and 24 cases in September

India health alert after 'brain-eating' amoeba rise

Drought in late August 2025 in Europe and the Mediterranean

More than half of the land affected

Europe, Mediterranean coast saw record drought in August: AFP analysis of EU data

Scientists are still untangling the mess created by a decades-old butterfly heist

'Taxonomic mess'

Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist

A complete petrified skeleton of an ancestor of modern porpoises dating back more than 10 million years is unveiled at the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET) in Lima on September 17, 2025

3.5 meters long

12-million-year-old porpoise fossil found in Peru

View of the facade of the newly renamed COP30 hotel, located in the city center of Belem

COP30 UN climate conference

Only 40% of countries have booked lodging for Amazon climate meet

John Podesta, senior advisor to former president Joe Biden, says Trump is trying to erode global consensus on climate change

Heading 'in the wrong direction'

Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide

Ostriches may be ground-bound, but their ancestors could take flight, a new study says

Ostrich and emu ancestor could fly, scientists discover

Rome had the highest number of deaths linked to climate change this summer, according a new rapid study

Based on projections

Estimated 16,500 climate change deaths during Europe summer: study

Pet owners rearing the four species have been asked to notify the authorities and hand them over so the fish can be confined to state-run aquariums

Including piranhas

Sri Lanka to ban predatory pet fish to protect ecosystems

Brightly colored birds like toucans and macaws, boxes of tortoises, and monkeys and a python were among 700 rescued animals taken to a central facility to receive expert care

700 animals rescued

Toucans, tortoises saved in major Brazil trafficking bust

Eva Lighthiser (2R), lead plaintiff in the Lighthiser v. Trump case, walks with attorney Mat dos Santos as they arrive at the Russell Smith Courthouse in Missoula, Montana, on September 16, 2025

Aggressive push

'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change

A woman fans herself during a heatwave in Seville in August

Since records began

2025 summer was Spain's warmest on record: weather agency

Smoke-dried mummification has persisted in some communities in Indonesia's Papua

Ancient tradition

Smoke-dried bodies could be world's 'oldest mummies': study

In Punjab, often dubbed India's granary unprecedented floods have washed over swathes of farmland

Floods devastate India's breadbasket of Punjab

The Amazon forest nears a 'point of no return' after losing 13 percent of its area in Brazil in the past 40 years

Brazil's Amazon lost area the size of Spain in 40 years: study

A fisherman pulls his net from the Mediterranean Sea on a trawler off Dbayeh near Lebanon's capital Beirut

Came into force Monday

WTO fishing deal: the net results

Fruit flies have caused significant damage to Greece's annual peach crop

Four-year, EU-funded project: REACT

Fruit fly tests in Greece target invasive species threat

Rising oceans caused by climate change will threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050, a landmark report warned on September 15, 2025 ahead of Australia releasing its emission targets this week

Awaiting emission reduction targets

Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report

A Sarawak Energy charging station in Kuching on the island of Borneo

Experts fear climate cost

Malaysia's largest island state aims to be region's 'green battery'

Bulgaria is the main mussel producer in the Black Sea

Rising temperatures

Bulgarian mussel farmers face risk, and chance, in hotter sea

Blue-green algae infested water is pictured in Battery Harbour on the shores of Lough Neagh, in Northern Ireland, on August 22, 2025

Visible come space

UK's largest lake 'dying' as algae blooms worsen

Austrian farmer Josef Hadler has observed that mowing less often allows wildlife to flourish

On border with Slovenia

How mowing less lets flowers bloom along Austria's 'Green Belt'

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin listens as US President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington

Federal program

US moves to scrap emissions reporting by polluters

One of the most climate-threatened corners of the planet, scientists fear Tuvalu will be uninhabitable this century

Island threatened by rising sea levels

'We don't want to become a memory': minister of endangered Tuvalu

An AFP investigation showed the nickel mine's effects on members of one of Indonesia's last isolated hunter-gatherer communities

Due to nickel mine in Indonesia

Norway sovereign wealth fund drops French miner over environmental fears

European automakers say the EU's push for electric vehicles 'is too rigid to produce success'

Industry pressures bloc

EU to fast-track review of 2035 combustion-engine ban

The United Nations says half of those who died in the earthquake were children

'Divine punishment'

Afghan deputy PM visits earthquake hit area

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