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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'

Banned in France since 2018, acetamiprid is legal in the European Union

Petition signed by over 2 million

France adopts law upholding ban on controversial insecticide

This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows the destruction from the flood and landslides in Dharali

Toll of India Himalayan flood likely to be at least 70

Summer stingers

Tips for protecting yourself from wasps, especially if you're allergic

This illustration by Mauricio Alvarez depicts 'Yeutherium pressor,' a tiny mammal that lived in the time of the dinosaurs in what is now southern Chile

Pocket-sized discovery

Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile

Spanish firefighters struggled to contain a wildfire that damaged the Las Medulas Roman-era mining site

Child dies in Italy as European heatwave sets records and sparks wildfires

An Iraqi man fans his son at his home south of Hilla amid the heat of August

Temperatures up to 50°C

Iraq announces nationwide power outage amid 'record' heat

Director of the British Antarctic Survey Jane Francis says the discovery of the remains of a British meteorologist who died in an Antarctic expedition in 1959 brings closure

Identified by DNA

UK scientist's remains found on Antarctic glacier 66 years on

Talks are ongoing at the UN to try to craft a treaty on dealing with plastic pollution

Torn over fundamentals

Talks for landmark plastic pollution treaty grind on

All-time heat records were broken at meteorological stations in Bordeaux, Bergerac, Cognac and Saint Girons

August heatwave

Records smashed as new heatwave bakes southwest France

Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme

'Silent killer'

Stressed out: how to measure dangerous heat

Ancient spectacle

Perseids meteor shower set to peak

The record attempt is being done from Sion airport in the Rhone river valley in southwestern Switzerland

Modern-day Icarus?

Swiss pilot takes big step closer to solar plane altitude record

Countries are trying to negotiate a groundbreaking international treaty on combating plastic pollution

Indigenous communities plead for action at plastic pollution talks

Hot, dry winds and a heatwave make for challenging conditions

Conditions may worsen situation

'Challenging day' for firefighters battling huge blaze in France

NASA astronaut Anne McClain gives a thumbs up after returning from a tour on the International Space Station

Five-month mission

Four astronauts home from space station after splashdown

An Afghan worker loads plastic bottles into a sack at a recycling yard in Kabul

Growing problem

Momentum sagging at UN plastic pollution treaty talks

Experts say heatwaves are likely to become more frequent across Europe

Powder keg waiting to blow

Overcrowded French prison swelters in 'unbearable' heat

The Crew-10 astronauts pictured in March before they blasted off for the space station

Four astronauts leave space station for trip back to Earth

The death toll from flash floods and mudslides in China's northwestern Gansu has risen to 13, with 30 people missing, state media said

Death toll from northwest China floods rises to 13

The fire erupted in the rural region of Keratea, some 43 kilometres (27 miles) southeast of Athens

Greeks count cost of wildfire 'tragedy' near Athens

About 2,000 people evacuated were allowed to return home

One dead and several injured

Massive French wildfire contained but 'not under control'

New York City is testing out an arsenal of different tools in Harlem, in the northern part of the city, to try and find new products and methods to tackle the rats

'It can be done'

New York declares total war on prolific rat population

Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva says President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's objective is to ensure that 'the economy does not compete with ecology, but rather they are part of the same equation'

In run-up to annual UN climate summit

Brazil's Lula vetoes parts of environmental 'devastation bill'

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