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

The ICJ sits in the iconic Peace Palace

Sets out top polluters' responsibilities

ICJ to deliver landmark climate ruling

Beekeepers have branded the pesticide 'a bee killer'

French petition against return of bee-killing pesticide passes 1mn

Leo has revived the papal tradition of holidaying at Castel Gandolofo, seat of the Observatory.

Pope calls Buzz Aldrin to mark 1969 moon landing

Floods in central Texas killed at least 135 people in early July 2025

135 registered dead

Texas flood missing toll revised sharply down to three

Most of the deaths occurred in the southern county of Sancheong, which has seen nearly 800 millimetres of rain since Wednesday

Heavy downpours

South Korea rain death toll hits 17, with 11 missing

Rough waves in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour as the typhoon signal number 10 is hoisted

Third-highest warning

Hong Kong hit by strong winds, heavy rain as Typhoon Wipha skirts past

Japan is hoping ultra-thin, flexible solar panels made from perovskite will help it meet renewable energy goals

'Industrial competitiveness'

Japan sees bright future for ultra-thin, flexible solar panels

The International Seabed Authority has been working on rules governing mineral extraction on the high seas

Underwater ecosystems

Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn

Beekeepers have described the chemical as 'a bee killer'

550,000 signatures

Bid to bring back pesticide in France sparks unprecedented petition

The latest cuts at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reduce its workforce by nearly a quarter

US environment agency axes nearly a quarter of workforce

Canada has counted some 3,000 wildfires in 2025

Human-induced climate change

Canada wildfires burn area the size of Croatia

At least three wild elephants were found dead across Sri Lanka, a day after six rescued young elephants were returned to the jungle

Three Sri Lankan elephants killed in blow to conservation efforts

A firefighting airplane releases water over burnt areas following a wildfire which started in the municipality of Mentrida

3,100 hectares burned

Spain taming fire that belched smoke cloud over Madrid

Hunza is known fort its natural beauty and attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year

Environmental concerns

Pakistan bans new hotel construction around tourist lakes

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is an independent entity established under a UN convention that is working on developing a code to regulate deep-sea mining

Following two weeks of negotiations

New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure

Antarctic ice holds clues to earth's changing climate

Parka-wearing scientists

From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old ice

Sri Lankan authorities returned six orphaned or injured elephants back into the wild after nursing them back to health

Conservation project

Sri Lanka returns orphaned elephants to the jungle

Heavy rains have been linked to 54 deaths in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, taking the toll to about 180 since the arrival of the monsoon in late June

54 people killed in 24-hours of heavy monsoon rain in Pakistan

Rescue workers search for missing people after a 10-metre-high (33-foot) retaining wall from an overpass collapsed onto the road during a heavy rain in Osan

Thousands evacuated

Three dead as South Korean region hit by most rain in 120 years

Chinese farmer Zhang Shengwu sits in his homemade submarine in a river in Hanshan county, in China’s eastern Anhui province

'Big Black Fish'

Chinese farmer makes splash with homemade submarine

Villager Rumyana Tsoneva says every year the water shortages get worse

War-time infrastructure

Leaking pipes as climate warms: Bulgaria faces water crisis

A new IVF technique using DNA from three people successfully reduced the risk that eight babies inherited genetic diseases from their mothers

Mitochondrial DNA

World-first IVF trial reduces risk of babies inheriting diseases

The FBI has warned of an 'alarming number of suicides' associated with blackmail using AI-powered 'nudify' apps

Sextortion scams

AI-powered 'nudify' apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmail

Snow provides glaciers with protection from the sun

'Everything has dried up'

Heat melts Alps snow and glaciers, leaving water shortage

The weather agency day reported that the main fissure was estimated to be 2.4 kilometres (1.5 miles) long

Reykjanes peninsula

Iceland volcano erupts for ninth time since 2023

Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels

Boom in rooftop panels

Pakistan's quiet solar rush puts pressure on national grid

This photo provided by NASA on July 15, 2025, was taken by Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun, showing the solar wind racing out from the Sun's corona, or outer atmosphere

A scientist's gold mine

Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats

US President Donald Trump attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

Massive infrastructure updates needed

Trump unveils investments to power AI boom

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