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

Warmer winter and spring weather encourages plants and trees to flower earlier

Affecting a quarter of adult Europeans

Longer exposure, more pollen: climate change worsens allergies

Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano erupts

Highest alert level

Bali flights cancelled after Indonesia volcano eruption

The CN tower looms over the Toronto skyline

Trump-cause exodus

Canada needs 'bold ambition' to poach top US researchers

ExxonMobil Executive Camila Borges places her bid to explore the Amazon basin during an oil blocks auction by Brazil's Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (ANP) in Rio de Janeiro, on June 17, 2025

Months before COP30 climate summit

Brazil sells rights to oil blocks near Amazon river mouth

The height of ash tower is around 10,000 metres above the summit, according to Indonesian officials

No immediate casualties

Indonesia volcano spews colossal ash tower, alert level raised

Sally Ride became the first US women in space on June 24, 1983

First US women in space

Queer astronaut documentary takes on new meaning in Trump's US

Alisha Fredriksson and Roujia Wen met at university and have since founded the company Seabound

Decarbonising maritime sector

UK startup looks to cut shipping's carbon emissions

The IEA says oil demand will fall in major consumer China in 2028

International Energy Agency

Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since Covid: IEA

Archaeologists have unearthed a large Viking burial site in northern Denmark after workers stumbled across it during a construction project

'Spectacular' Viking burial site discovered in Denmark

Prosecutors want a six-year sentence for Bella Nilsson, former head of Swedish garbage disposal company Think Pink, who is charged with illegal toxic waste dumping

Verdict due for Sweden's 'Queen of Trash' over toxic waste

UK MPs are set to debate decriminalising abortions for women and end laws which have seen women prosecuted for ending their pregnancy

'Widespread support'

UK MPs eye decriminalising abortion for women in all cases

More than 220 active fires

Canada wildfire near Vancouver contained

Grizzly bears are a threat at the G7 summit in Canada

Canadian Rockies

Electric fences, drones, dogs protect G7 leaders from bear attack

Australian researchers used GPS to follow eight plumed egrets and 10 great egrets over a period of months, after the birds left the Macquarie Marshes in New South Wales

Species of heron

Scientists track egret's 38-hour flight from Australia to PNG

Macron's visit was at the invitation of Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen (left) and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (right)

'European solidarity and support'

Macron, on Greenland visit, berates Trump for threats against the territory

France hosted world leaders scientists, business leaders and marine conservationists for a global oceans summit

Largest gathering yet

Nations advance ocean protection, vow to defend seabed

Experts warned against using innovation to increase fishing hauls

Predicting sea currents

Startups show off ocean-preserving tech at Paris trade fair

An emergency worker searches for bodies in a pond after deadly floods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province

Cyril Ramaphosa

S.African president blames climate change for 'catastrophic' floods

A cicada resting on a tree in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southeastern France

Echo through ancient forests

Musical cicadas brought back to UK from France

BioNTech hopes its purchase of CureVac will help boost its research into cancer treatments

Complementary capabilities

Germany's BioNTech to buy CureVac to boost cancer research

France welcomed world leaders scientists, business leaders and marine conservationists to Nice for the event

Set to fall short on financial pledges

UN summit to end with boost for ocean conservation

US President Donald Trump signed resolutions blocking California's mandate to phase out gas-powered cars

State immediately contested

Trump moves to block California electric cars program

A driver plugs in a Tesla electric vehicle to charge at a Tesla Supercharger location in Santa Monica, California

Tailpipe emission rules

California sues Trump for scrapping state's EV rules

Pacific Island nations are at grave risk from rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms caused by climate change.

Fighting to outlast a crisis

'We show up': Pacific leaders apply pressure at oceans summit

Visitors browse through the stands at the VivaTech technology fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles

From footwear to AI counterfeit detectors

The most eye-catching products at Paris's Vivatech trade fair

Lake Dembel's depth has halved since 1990 due to over-pumping

Irrigating farms

Ethiopia's vast lake being pumped dry

Researchers have called the site 'Camarat 4'

16th-century merchant ship

Archaeologists find France's deepest shipwreck

2025: the second warmest May on record

Just shy of last year's record

May 2025 second warmest on record: EU climate monitor

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