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

'Frogging', or the hunt for the exotic amphibians that call the rainforest home, is taking off in Malaysia's Sarawak state in Borneo

Leap into the night

'Frogging' takes off in Borneo's jungle

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling means that around 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean must undertake legal reforms 'to reduce the risks arising... from the degradation of the global climate system'

Taking 'all necessary measures'

Inter-American court says states must protect people from climate change

Under Lee Zeldin's leadership, the EPA has sought to fulfill Trump’s campaign promises by rolling back environmental regulations, boosting fossil fuel production, and slashing funding for clean energy

139 staff affected

Trump environmental agency suspends employees over letter of dissent

An aerial image shows vehicles driving on the California 14 Highway as solar panels, part of an electricity generation plant, stand on June 18, 2021 in Kern County near Mojave, California

Breakdown of new legislation

How will Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' impact US climate policy?

Firefighters have been working to extinguish a wildfire in the western Turkish province of Izmir

Firefighters battling high winds

Two dead as wildfires rage near Turkish resort of Izmir

Protesters hold upside-down portraits of the president in 2019

Climate protest

Europe court says France allowed to fine president portrait snatchers

The fuel restriction was introduced Tuesday to reinforce an already-existing but widely disregarded ban on petrol cars older than 15 years, and diesel vehicles older than 10

Public 'discontent'

New Delhi says fuel ban on old vehicles not feasible

The Chikyu, pictured here in 2013, will drill around the remote island of Minami Torishima

Innovation programme

Japan plans 'world first' deep-sea mineral extraction

Fruit bats are known to carry Australian bat lyssavirus, but it is not known what species delivered the fatal bite

Rabies-like infection

Australian man dies from 'extremely rare' bat bite virus

The study is a unique experiment designed to separate out and analyse the different effects of soil drought and air dryness in a natural forest ecosystem

Unique experiment

Facing climate change, Swiss trees get mist before they're missed

Huge tracts of Pacific Ocean seabed are carpeted in polymetallic nodules, bulbous lumps of rock that are rich in metals used in battery production

Industry-funded research

'Significant declines' in some species after deep-sea mining: research

This image courtesy of David Rankin, Saguaro Observatory, shows interstellar object A11pI3Z captured on June 2, 2025 by David Rankin, engineer at the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona

Astronomers' delight

Third-ever confirmed interstellar object blazing through Solar System

Farmers irrigate their field in the Chtouka region of southern Morocco

Environmentally contentious lifeline

Drought-hit Morocco turns to desalination to save vegetable bounty

Despite brief oases, Mars was likely doomed to be a desert planet, a new study suggests

Uninhabitable neighbour

Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue

A woman puts her deck chair in the water at a beach at the Bavarian lake Chiemsee, where temperatures reaches some 32 degrees celsius on July 2, 2025

Across the continent

Germany swelters as European heatwave moves eastwards

After months of tough negotiations with EU states, Brussels says it will stick to the objective announced last year of cutting emissions by 90 percent by 2040

Including new flexibility

EU unveils long-delayed 2040 climate target -- with wiggle room

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez addresses the UN's 4th International Conference on Financing and Development on June 30, 2025

Not everyone convinced

Public or private? Funding debate splits reeling aid sector

Experts come once a year to search a new part of the reserve, with the location always kept secret to deter pillagers

'No other place like it'

Eggs en Provence: France's unique dinosaur egg trove

To ChatGPT or not to ChatGPT? Recent research struck a chord with educators struggling with widespread AI use to write essays

'Soulless' AI essays

'Writing is thinking': do students who use ChatGPT learn less?

The ALMA observatory in the north of Chile has captured the most detailed images to date of the beginnings of the universe, allowing the observation of the cold gas that formed the first galaxies

Chilean observatory

ALMA lets astronomers see building blocks of early galaxies

A pilot project in the north of Canada's Quebec province is using drones to plant new black spruces and jack pines and help reforestation efforts in areas devastated by wildfires

Spreading seeds

Canada turns to drones for reforestation after wildfires

Findings from the study could help make society more intellectually equitable, its authors argue

Learning optimisation

Shock study: Mild electric stimulation boosts math ability

Celestial highlights

What to see in the sky over Luxembourg this July

A cruise ship off the Greek island of Santorini, which is among the destinations for which cruise ships will now pay tourist taxes

20€ per passenger

Greece starts charging tourist tax on cruises

The sun rises by the Eiffel Tower in Paris on July 1, 2025, as the city is on red alert for high temperatures, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and speed restrictions in place as a searing heatwave gripped Europe.

World will have to learn to live with heatwaves: UN

The top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris was shut because of the heatwave

Top of Eiffel Tower shut

Europe on high alert as surprise early heatwave creeps north

A 'solid refrigerant' used by Barocal at their headquarters in Cambridge

'Solid refrigerant'

UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases

Japan experienced its hottest June on record last month, with meteorologists warning the severe heat is expected to continue through July

Challenging heat waves

Japan had hottest June on record: weather agency

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