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

Delegates are meeting in the main assembly hall at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva

Raising concerns

Oil industry presence surges at UN plastic talks: NGOs

The fire killed a woman in her 60s

Biggest in decades

France's huge wildfire will burn for days: authorities

A view of solar panels atop the roof of a home on February 25, 2025 in Pasadena, California

Huge blow for low-income households

Trump moves to kill $7 billion in solar panel grants

SpaceX has agreed to carry Italian experiments to Mars on on its Starship megarocket

New deal announced

SpaceX agrees to take Italian experiments to Mars

A student-led petition against the bill garnered more than two million signatures

Top constitutional authority

France strikes down return of banned bee-killing pesticide

US President Donald Trump tours the migrant detention center dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Friends of the Everglades

US judge orders temporary halt to new 'Alligator Alcatraz' construction

The trend of 'sleepmaxxing,' featuring mouth taping, eye masks and other bedroom practices with unproven health effects, is being promoted on social media by online influencers

Dangerous dreams

Inside internet's 'sleepmaxxing' craze

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 4: Joey Chestnut wins the men's competition at Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025 in New York City

Calorie counting

Americans eating (slightly) less ultra-processed food

Wildfires burn in the Canadian province of British Columbia in June

Hundreds forced to evacuate

Canada sends troops to eastern province as fire damage grows

Plastic waste has been found from the bottom of the seas to the tops of mountains

Aiming to forge a global treaty

Plastic pollution treaty talks deadlocked

Shocked at plastic waste on a once pristine beach, Simon Bernard launched what he called a 'plastic odyssey'

Fighting pollution

A French sailor's personal 'Plastic Odyssey'

A student-led petition against the bill garnered more than two million signatures

France to rule on controversial bee-killing pesticide bill

Experts said the deadly flood that swept away an Indian Himalayan town was likely caused by a rapidly melting glacier fuelled by the effects of climate change

Rapidly melting

Deadly Indian Himalayan flood likely caused by glacier collapse, experts say

Heavy rains flooded parts of South Asia

Floods, wildfires, drought

Third-hottest July on record wreaks climate havoc

This general view shows the Civic Center in Aiwo on the island of Nauru.

Fears that the scheme could be exploited

Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action

Many Australians regard cockatoos as something of a nuisance, a reputation owed in part to the parrots' cacophonous, screeching cries

Source of fascination to scientists

Cockatoos can bust a move: Australian research

A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023

Influential paper

Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge

The collapse of a mountain of waste in the Ugandan capital on August 9, 2024, killed 35 people

'We are living a miserable life'

A year on, Ugandans still suffering from deadly garbage collapse

Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has repeatedly set climate targets campaigners describe as unclear and unambitious

World's fourth-largest emitter

Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions

The Los Angeles blazes in January constitute the largest-ever insured wildfire loss event by far, reaching an estimated $40 billion, said Swiss Re

Natural disasters caused $135 bn in economic losses in first half of 2025: Swiss Re

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, the transmitter of dengue, Zika and chikungunya, is seen through a microscope

Passed on by mosquitoes

Chikungunya in China: What you need to know

Smoke billows from a forest fire in southern France

First casualty reported

One dead, nine injured in wildfire in southern France

A handout photograph released by the Indian Army shows residential buildings partially submerged in sludge after the mudslide in Uttarakhand

Four people killed

Indian army searches for scores missing after deadly Himalayan flood

Effects of climate change

Why climbing the Alps is riskier than ever before

Environmental activist hold a banner reading

Fearing river pollution

'Not backing down': activists block hydro plants in N.Macedonia

Signed by acting administrator Sean Duffy, the July 31 memo is the latest sign of the agency's shift towards prioritizing human space exploration over scientific research under President Donald Trump's second term

NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars

Higher temperatures increase evaporation, so that more water is stored in the atmosphere, in turn increasing the risk of heavy rainfall and flooding

Destructive and deadly weather

Summer 2025 already a cavalcade of climate extremes

Rescue teams deployed to India's Uttarakhand state where flash flooding washed out a town in the tourist region of Dharali

Rescue teams deployed

100 missing after flash flood washes out Indian Himalayan town

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