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

Volunteer firefighters are holding practice drills to prepare for fire season in the Athens suburbs

Closing days of spring

Blaze-hit Athens suburb trains to tackle new fire season

The rare earths sector is dominated by China, though several countries have significant reserves

Diversifying critical supply chain

Rare earth production outside China 'major milestone'

US President Donald Trump has helped Tesla CEO Elon Musk -- a former close aide -- promote his company from the White House

US Senate blocks California's electric vehicle mandate

A flooded street with debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, in Siesta Key, Florida, on October 10, 2024

60% chance of above-normal season

US braces for intense hurricane season as climate agency is gutted

Ana Toni is Brazil's national secretary for climate change and CEO of the UN's COP30 conference to be held in Belem in November

'Climate change is a war'

Tariff wars will hamper climate efforts: COP30 CEO

Adelie penguins, along with other seabirds such as Imperial Shags, expel large amounts of ammonia through their droppings

Looking out for number two

The surprising climate power of penguin poo

Somalia is among the most vulnerable to climate change, the UN says, and recently has experienced both the worst drought in 40 years and massive flooding

Between flooding and droughts

Somalia climate shocks and aid cuts create perfect storm

Suffering pain at the dentist could be because ancient fish evolved the predecessors for teeth to feel things

The origin of our pearly whites

Teeth hurt? It could be because of a 500-million-year-old fish

Asiatic lions are slightly smaller than their African cousins, and have a fold of skin along their bellies

Conservation success

India's lion population rises by a third

A grab from video footage released by Costa Rica's justice ministry shows prison guards removing drugs taped to a cat

Crack-carrying cat

Costa Rica prison guards catch drug-smuggling purr-petrator

Rescuers in New South Wales were scrambling to reach residents left stranded on their roofs by fast-moving floodwaters

Ground saturated, rivers swollen

Flood victims stranded on roofs as downpours lash eastern Australia

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressing the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly

Three years of negotiations

WHO adopts landmark pandemic agreement

Mahout Ali Baloch feeds balls of food laced with medicine to Malika, an elephant with tuberculosis, at the Karachi Safari Park

Tuberculosis treatment

Jumbo task: 400 pills a day for elephants with TB in Pakistan

In the UK, National Grid recruitment is at full power as its electricity network adapts for renewables

'Massive challenge'

High-flying young electricians wire UK energy switch

Owner of Mack's Fish Camp Marshall Jones walks through the drought-stricken Everglades National Park, in Pembroke Pines, Florida on May 16, 2025

Over 2,000 species affected

Severe drought strains wildlife and tourism in Florida's Everglades

Magdalena Martinez fears her home will be swallowed by a planned reservoir to feed the Panama Canal

Artificial lake

Villagers vow to fight new Panama Canal reservoir 'to the end'

Trump has repeatedly expressed opposition to wind energy, claiming turbines are unsightly and dangerous

Trump admin ends halt on New York offshore wind project

Hail storms and heavy rains struck southwestern France on Monday, causing floods and damage

Three dead as thunderstorms hit southeastern France

Education officials in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, said schools will close early for summer holidays because of a persistent heatwave

Summer vacations start 28 May

Heatwave forces early school closures in Pakistan's largest province

The Greenland ice sheet holds enough frozen water to lift global oceans by five metres.

Testing humanity's resiliance

Dire sea level rise likely even in a 1.5C world: study

Beijing during a 2023 heatwave, one of a series of extreme weather events endured by China in recent years

Across multiple cities

Record May heat scorches north, central China

Residents were rescued by boats from flooded areas of Bengaluru

One dead as rains choke India's tech capital

The majority of India's announced steel development plans involve higher-emissions blast furnace production, in a country whose steel industry is already the world's most carbon intensive

Doubling production by 2030

India steel plans threaten global emissions goals: report

Farmer Luke Abblitt inspects his crop of sugar beets on Daintree Farm in Cambridgeshire which he says are half the size they should be due to lack of rain

Soil parched, crops stunted

UK farmers pray for rain amid driest spring since 1852

Floral artist Ricky Paul looks at the Chelsea Punk, a mohican made from pampas grass

Innovation and adaptation

AI talking trees feature at Chelsea Flower Show

Slaves to fashion: A baby howler monkey holds a capuchin on Jicaron island, where stealing infants has been become a trend

For no apparent reason

Monkeys kidnap babies of another species in weird 'fad'

Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of climbers each spring

World's fourth highest peak

Indian, Romanian climbers die on Nepal's Lhotse

Vet Rolf Arne Olberg checks if a polar bear is properly sedated

Endangered species

Polar bear biopsies to shed light on Arctic pollutants

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