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

Years of drought have reduced southern Iraq's mythical marshes to a barren land

Persistent drought

'The marshes are dead': Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water

Portugal counts the cost of its biggest ever forest fire

The National Museum of Prague already has hyperrealistic artistic reconstructions of human ancestors

Revolutionised understanding of humanity's ancestors

Human ancestor Lucy gets first European showing in Prague

SpaceX's Starship on the launchpad in Starbase in Texas as its tenth test flight was called off

SpaceX delays Starship megarocket launch in latest setback

The August heatwave exacerbated tinderbox conditions that have fuelled deadly wildfires

Amid forest fires

Spain heatwave was 'most intense on record'

A psychologist speaks with a couple in a shelter in Benavente, who fled their village threatened by forest fires

'Everything they own could burn'

Fires ravage an ageing rural Spain

Pre-sunrise spectacle

Last chance to see rare six-planet parade on Monday morning

Firefighters have been risking their lives to contain the wildfires

Deadly injuries

Portugal suffers new wildfire death as Spain beats back blazes

The Trump administration has ordered work to stop on the Revolution Wind project off the US coast of Rhode Island, built by Danish firm Orsted

US halts work on huge, nearly complete offshore wind farm

Sarah Ezekiel's son Eric grew up never knowing how his mother had once spoken

Groundbreaking tech

AI helps UK woman rediscover lost voice after 25 years

Helicopters have played a key role in the battle against wildfires in Spain

Spain's deadly wildfires ignite political blame game

Drones are forcing military medics to find new ways to retrieve wounded to field hospitals

'I couldn't do anything'

Under a drone canopy, Ukraine army medics rely on robots and luck

Seatbelts on: Climate change is making turbulence more common during flights, research shows

Sorry, anxious fliers

Bumpy skies: How climate change increases air turbulence

Bear necessities: The big animal climbed on the ice cream shop's counter looking for a treat

Craving a sweet treat

Got the scoop: Bear takes over California ice cream shop

A person looks out at the ocean as large waves from Hurricane Erin keep swimmers away on August 21, 2025, in Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Hurricane Erin brings coastal flooding to N. Carolina, Virginia

'We want to ensure European sovereignty in energy supply,' says Voltfang chief David Oudsandji

German firm gives 'second life' to used EV batteries

The ECDC recommended mosquito repellent, long sleeves and trousers, window screens and bed nets for protection

Due to climate change

Record number of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in Europe: health agency

The white continent is melting: Researchers are sounding the alarm about the threats to Antarctica

Surging tourism is polluting Antarctica, scientists warn

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Erin forming in the Atlantic Ocean on August 20, 2025

Evacuation orders

North Carolina braces for flooding from Hurricane Erin

Shifts in different facets of Antarctica's climate system amplify each other and accelerate the pace of warming globally as well

Reaping what we sow

Antarctic climate shifts threaten 'catastrophic' impacts globally

India's Agni-5 missile, displayed during a rehersal in 2013 for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi

India test-fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile

A wildfire burns on Mount Underwood near Port Alberni, Canada on August 12, 2025

No longer life-threatening

Threat from massive western Canada wildfire eases

Aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest near the northern Brazilian city of Labrea on September 4, 2024

Due to intense rainy season

Brazil records 65 percent drop in Amazon area burned by fire

High winds have hampered efforts to contain wildfires in Spain that have already scorched a record stretch of land

Winds complicate wildfire battle in Spain

'We are currently exploring how to apply this innovation at a larger scale,' a Nestle researcher says

Nestle unveils method to boost cocoa yields as climate change hits

More than 20 people have died on Wednesday in a fresh spell of monsoon rain in Pakistan

Schools shut, houses damaged

Torrential Pakistan monsoon rains kill more than 20

A plume of smoke rises as a worker operates a bulldozer to convey heaps of raw coal on the outskirts of Dhanbad, in India's Jharkhand state

Years ahead of 2030 targets

India celebrates clean energy milestone but coal still king

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

New investigation

US demand for RVs fuels deforestation on Indonesia's Borneo: NGOs

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