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

Lionfish are normally found in the Red Sea but have increasingly been seen in the Mediterranean due to rising sea temperatures

Disrupting ecosystems

With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalisation shifts into high gear

Tilapia farming in Brazil is a major industry, but US President Donald Trump's tariffs could hurt companies like Fider Pescados

Trump's tariffs drown Brazil's fish industry

Negotiators have been set a deadline of Thursday to come up with a clear text

Trying to secure deal

Global plastic pollution treaty talks extended in 'haze' of confusion

Crowds gathered at a Kishtwar hospital in Indian-administered Kashmir while people carried some of the injured on stretchers

150 injured people rescued

Flood kills 56 in Indian Kashmir mountain village, scores missing

Firefighters in Patras were facing 'scattered' pockets but the fire was 'still active' in the eastern outskirts of the city

Greek firefighters beat back wildfires

Surprising findings

Cats might provide breakthrough for Alzheimer's research

A man fills a delivery truck with water at a distribution facility in Beirut, where record-low rainfall is exacerbating pressure on the state water supply

Ongoing worries

Water shortages plague Beirut as low rainfall compounds woes

Elon Musk was an advisor to Donald Trump until the pair had a dramatic, public falling out

Trump orders space regulations eased in win for Musk

Scientists have documented surprising sex reversals in Australian birds such as the kookaburra.

Kookaburras, magpies, and lorikeets

Scientists find surprising sex reversal in Australian birds

Firefighters and residents have been trying to put out fires near the Greek city of Patras

Ravaging the countryside

Thousands battle Greece fires as heatwave bakes Europe

Fallen trees lie on motorcycles following strong winds brought by Typhoon Podul in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Thousands of people sheltered

Storm makes landfall in China after raking Taiwan as typhoon

Five previous rounds over the past two and a half years failed to seal an agreement on dealing with plastic pollution

Penultimate day of talks

Plastic pollution treaty talks in disarray

The floating light green aquatic lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) that feeds on chemical pollution has covered Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador, causing an environmental emergency that has paralyzed artisanal fishing and free navigation of tourists

Feeds on chemical pollution

'Water lettuce' chokes tourism, fishing at El Salvador lake

Second worst fire season

Massive fire burns on mountain near western Canada city

When Romans swelter in a heatwave, they turn to the traditional 'grattachecca'

In heatwave, Romans turn to vintage snow cones to stay cool

Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong's sculpture 'The Thinker's Burden', sited outside the UN, is being slowly covered in plastic during the treaty talks in Geneva

Deadlocked plastics treaty talks 'at cliff's edge'

The SolarStratos plane has 22 square metres of solar panels on its wings

Swiss pilot surpasses solar-powered plane altitude record

The Lady's Slipper orchid was one of the species helped by the conservaion project

Conservation programme

150 species saved in England, but 'time running out' to halt decline

This picture taken from a commercial aircraft shows an aerial view of the Himalayan mountain range near Kathmandu

Influx of tourism

Nepal waives climbing fees for 97 mountain peaks

The rocket carrying the four-tonne satellite took off from France's Kourou space base in French Guyana

In age of climate change

European satellite to step up monitoring of extreme weather

Museums Victoria Researcher Ruairidh Duncan (L) and Palaeontologist Erich Fitzgerald with the partial fossil skull and teeth of Janjucetus dullardi in Melbourne

Scientists unearth 'cute' but fearsome ancient whale

Cooling down in Berlin on July 2, 2025, during an early summer heatwave across Europe

Scorching temperatures

Five key things about heatwaves in Europe

The German government wants to build more gas power plants

Conservative-led government

German gas drive fuels fears of climate backsliding

The 54-pound Martian meteorite NWA 16788, the largest known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, was sold for a record $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York

Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate

Berliners line up to take a dip in the Spree during a demonstration against the ban on swimming in the river

100-year-old ban

Berlin bathers demand lifting of swimming ban in Spree river

The equestrian centre employee was the first fatality from dozens of wildfires that have hit Spain since a heatwave began last week

Temperatures over 40°C

Three killed in European wildfires as heatwave intensifies

Water tanker overturned

Soldier dies battling Montenegro wildfire

Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong's sculpture 'The Thinker's Burden', sited outside the UN, is being slowly covered in plastic during the treaty talks in Geneva

Geneva talks close Thursday

EU ready to do plastic pollution deal 'but not at any cost'

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