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

The Eiffel Tower is owned by the city of Paris

Righting a historic wrong

Eiffel Tower to honour 72 women scholars to ensure gender parity

The centre was launched by Pope Leo's predecessor, Francis, in 2023

Environmental champion

Leo XIV inaugurates eco training centre near Rome

President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticised wind energy, has rattled off a series of orders blocking climate-friendly wind power projects since returning to office

Construction neared completion

Danish wind giant sues US government over project halt

Wildfires in the Amazon, Canada and Siberia have brought home how air quality can be impacted on a vast scale

Wildfires producing 'witches' brew' of air pollution: UN

The Eaton Fire in January tore through the Altadena area, destroying thousands of homes

Southern California Edison

US sues power company over deadly Los Angeles wildfire

A conversation between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about longevity was picked up on a hot mic

Organ transplants

Could humans become immortal, as Putin was heard telling Xi?

Bike-loving Dutch weigh ban on fat bikes from cycle lanes

Surge in accidents

Bike-loving Dutch weigh ban on fat bikes from cycle lanes

Lake Geneva is shared between Switzerland and France

France, Switzerland agree on Rhone, Lake Geneva water management

A person drinks from a canister near the US Capitol on the National Mall in Washington, DC in June 2025, as a significant heat wave hits the region

Trump's war on science

Former federal workers bring back climate portal killed by Trump

In Afghanistan villages destroyed by the earthquake, rebuilding will have to start from scratch

Survivors feel 'forgotten'

Rain adds to misery of Afghan quake survivors

Residents use fire beaters to battle a wildfire in Colinas del Campo de Martin Moro Toledano in northwestern Spain on August 21, 2025

Unusually high temperatures

Climate change made heat behind deadly Iberian fires 40 times more likely: study

Made in China? The Lion of Venice sculpture sits on top of a column in Piazza San Marco

A remarkable journey

Made in China? The remarkable tale of Venice's iconic winged lion

Colombia's coal exports -- like the rocks mined at the Mineria LyC coal mine in Tausa -- have dropped dramatically since President Gustavo Petro's ban on sales to Israel

Colombia coal exports plummet after ban on Israel sales

The settlement of Chinese Camp dates back to the mid-19th century as a huge gold rush brought tens of thousands of prospectors to California

Sparked by lightning storms

Wildfire tears through California gold rush town

''This is a patent from a crucial stage when he had invented the detonator and was moving forward towards dynamite,' Ulf Larsson said,' said curator Ulf Larsson

Lost for 50 years, Nobel patents found in Swedish summer home

The latest research says the global capacity for safely storing carbon underground is much lower than previously assume

Not a limitless ressource

Treat carbon storage like 'scarce resource': scientists

UN climate chief Simon Stiell has called the next round of national plans on global warming 'the cornerstone of humanity's fight against the challenge

New commitments

UN pushes nations to submit overdue climate plans

Up to a third of 13- to 16-year-olds in England are believed to consume energy drinks, some of which contain more caffeine than two cups of coffee, the government says

Tackling root causes of poor health

England moves to ban sale of energy drinks to children

Images of an Instagrammer drinking offerings from a Japanese burial site, have sparked widespread anger online

'Fame-seeking foreigners'

Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering

Faced with weak market conditions, the company last year suspended construction of the renewables biofuel factory in Rotterdam that was intended to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel from waste

Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands

A member of Greek wildlife protection group Anima treats a turtle burned in a forest fire

Animal clinics report

'Roasted alive': Greek wildlife suffers as climate changes

China endured its hottest summer on record in 2025

Some citrus farmers in Turkey lost nearly 40 percent of produce to frost, hail and a heatwave this season

40 percent of produce affected

Frost, hail, heat sour season for Turkey's lemon growers

A judge in Honduras has ordered three men to stand trial for the murder of Honduran environmentalist Juan Lopez, seen here in 2021 as he watched the Guapinol river in Honduras

Judge orders trial in murder of Honduran conservationist

Pari island residents Edi (L) and Asmania pose next to the factory of Swiss cement giant Holcim in Eclepens, western Switzerland

Seeking compensation

Indonesian islanders taking Swiss cement giant to court over climate

A Trump administration climate report falsely claimed US temperatures are not rising, among other allegations

Merchants of doubt

'Mockery of science': US experts blast Trump climate report

President Donald announces that US Space Command headquarters will move from Colorado to Alabama, in remarks at the White House on September 2, 2025

Reversing Biden's decision

Trump announces US Space Command move to Alabama

The world's largest iceberg is breaking up

Could disappear within weeks

Once king of the seas, a giant iceberg is finally breaking up

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