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

A boy shoots hoops at sunset on August 19, 2025 in San Pedro, California amid a brutal heat wave

440-page rebuttal

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

Flooding in India's Punjab state killed at least 29 people and affected over 250,000 others in August

At least 29 dead

Villages marooned after deadly floods in India's Punjab

Plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers will be banned in South Australia as part of a state crackdown on single-use plastic

From charm to harm

South Australia bans plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers

Spain was badly hit by a succession of heatwaves and drought this summer, fuelling a wave of wildfires

Four dead, thousands evacuated

Spain PM says planning for deadly wildfires 'clearly insufficient'

Blood moon rising

Luxembourg to experience lunar eclipse on Sunday

An engineer works on a flywheel energy storage system at Levistor's workshop in southwest London

Age-old technology

Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights on

Residents of the tiny Indonesian island of Pari want Swiss cement giant Holcim to pay for what they say is its share of the climate change that threatens their home

Demanding compensation

Indonesian islanders taking Swiss concrete giant to court over climate

Sea change: the floaters convert the power of waves into an electrical current

Useable electricity

New wave: Sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port

Nearly half a million people were displaced by flooding in eastern Pakistan after days of heavy rain swelled rivers, and authorities carried out a major rescue operation

Historic rescue operation

Pakistan evacuates half a million people stranded by floods

The return of the Pleiades

The Luxembourg night sky in September

An American Bison, also called Buffalo, grazes in the Yellowstone National Park July 09, 2020

Scientists call for free roaming

Bison herds 'reawaken' Yellowstone's prairies

A digital reconstruction of 'Spicomellus afer', an ankylosaur dinosaur with bone spikes fused to each rib

'Strangest' dinosaur covered in spiked armoury: scientists

Japan's Kodai Naraoka tosses up a shuttlecock at the badminton world championships in Paris on August 28

Never mind the shuttlecocks

Badminton federation smoothes feathers ruffled by shuttlecock shortage

Norway, western Europe's biggest oil and gas producer, is regularly criticised for its huge fossil fuel output

Appeal underway

Norway, environmentalists back in court over oil field permits

Wind turbines on Nikkawahama Beach in Kamisu city, Ibaraki prefecture. Japan declared in its updated energy plan this year that offshore wind power was a

Offshore wind projects in doubt

Japan confident on wind power after Mitsubishi blow

Susan Monarez has been dismissed as head of the CDC after less than a month into the job

Clashing with RFK Jr

White House fires US health agency head after she refused to quit

A wildfire burns on Mount Underwood near Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on August 12, 2025

Air Quality Life Index

Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study

Fisherman Chris Kelly, 32, shows octopus caught aboard his vessel in Plymouth Harbour, southwest England

Unwelcome surprises

'Perfect storm': UK fishermen reel from octopus invasion

A white-bellied pangolin rescued from local animal traffickers in Uganda. All eight known pangolin species remain at high risk of extinction

High risk of extinction

Conservationists call for more data to help protect pangolins

Pakistan authorities blew up an embankment next to a flood-swollen dam during a brutal monsoon season, with a holy Sikh site submerged by floodwater

Holy Sikh sites

Pakistan blows up dam embankment as it braces for flood surge

Four people have died and thousands have been evacuated because of this month's fires

Corruption allegations

Wildfires pile pressure on Spanish PM

Intense monsoon rainstorm in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has caused widespread chaos

Record-breaking rain fuels deadly floods in India's Jammu region

People shield themselves from the hot sun with umbrellas in Tokyo on August 27, 2025

Hottest summer on record

Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35C or more

SpaceX's Starship rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on August 26, 2025, for its tenth test flight

Demonstrating capabilities

SpaceX answers critics with successful Starship test flight

This handout photo provided by the City of Phoenix shows a large cloud of dust at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on August 25, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona

Sci-fi skies: 'Haboob' plunges Phoenix into darkness

As of Tuesday, there were still 15 active wildfires burning in Spain

Swept the country

Spain calls wildfires one of its worst disasters in years

Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain

Despite heart condition

Japanese climber, 102, sets Mount Fuji record

Typhoon Kajiki downed trees and tore roofs off thousands of homes in Vietnam

Widespread flooding

Typhoon death toll rises in Vietnam as downed trees hamper rescuers

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