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

The Concorde 001 takes off for its first flight on March 2, 1969 in southern France

In the Aeroscopia museum

France names first Concorde jet a historical monument

Power grids must evolve to adapt as countries move away from fossil fuels

Spain's blackout highlights renewables' grid challenge

Massive new tarrifs could hit solar panels made in Southeast Asia from June

Ramp up own production

US solar tariffs could drive Asia transition boom

Voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of making Starbase into its own independent city in the southern US state of Texas

Easy vote turns Musk's dreams for Starbase city in Texas into reality

Front and center

Trump NASA budget prioritizes Moon, Mars missions over research

There was concern that a decline in sandeel stocks could harm puffins

EU wins post-Brexit fishing row with Britain

Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton hopes to become prime minister in 2025 elections

Strong climate change views

Renewables sceptic Peter Dutton aims for Australian PM's job

Semia Labidi Gharbi helped spearhead a campaign that challenged waste trafficking

'Major waste scandal'

'No dumping ground': Tunisia activist wins award over waste scandal

A clove farmer rests in Ternate, North Maluku

Climate change takes spice from Indonesia clove farms

People bask in the record heat at London's Wimbledon Common

Following sunniest April

UK records hottest ever May Day

Double crested cormorants perch on pilings at the Mallows Bay Park in Maryland

Birding app and machine learning

New research reveals where N. American bird populations are crashing

Accelerated erosion

Booming tourism and climate change threaten Albania's coast

A periodical Brood X cicada climbs up an oak tree in Washington, DC on May 20, 2021

Periodical insects

Seventeen years later, Brood XIV cicadas emerge in US

One of the proposed sites for a nuclear power station in Australia -- the shuttered Liddell Power Station on the east coast

Zero carbon emissions

Nuclear power sparks Australian election battle

Global leaders and environmentalists are pushing back against US President Donald's Trump's order to fast-track deep-sea mining to protect the marine habitat and its residents, like this mother humpback whale and calf seen off the coast of Brazil

Outside American waters

UN body warns over Trump's deep-sea mining order

Vast swaths of South Korea's southeast were burned in a series of blazes in March, which killed 31 people and destroyed historic sites

Deadliest wildfire

Climate change made fire conditions twice as likely in South Korea blazes: study

A massive power outage in Spain has sparked debate about the reliability of renewable energy such as wind and solar

Fierce criticism

Renewable energy in the dock in Spain after blackout

Scientists fear the numbers of insects in the UK are falling, after drivers record fewer bug splats on their vehicles

'Alarming fall'

UK scientists fear insect loss as car bug splats fall

Olivier Nsengimana won the Whitley Fund for Nature Gold Award for his work to save the crane

Extraordinary comeback

Rwandan awarded for saving grey crowned cranes

After the explosion

The ghostly traces of supernovae

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after six months on the country's space station

After six months

China's Shenzhou-19 astronauts return to Earth

The waste has been traced to a hospital, businesses, an airline and an upmarket restaurant

Mounds of waste dumped near Athens's main river: NGO

Kenya is short by an estimated 100,000 vials of antivenom per year

Life-saving responses

Kenya's desperate need for more snake antivenom

The rapid thaw of the permafrost is cracking houses and releasing greenhouse gases

Changing landscape

Thawing permafrost dots Siberia with rash of mounds

Activists rally against deep sea mining outside the European Parliament in March 2023

Environmentalists alarmed

Canadian firm makes first bid for international seabed mining license

Plumes of smoke from wildfires, including the Bridge Fire, are seen in the mountains behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline at sunset as seen from Kenneth Hahn Park in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California, on September 10, 2024

'Without cause or a plan'

US climate assessment in doubt as Trump dismisses authors

The tree at Sycamore Gap had stood for nearly 200 years in a dramatic dip in the landscape in northern England

Nature destroyers

Two men in court charged with 'moronic' felling of famed UK tree

Researchers at Chile's gricultural Research Institute's (INIA) Rice Breeding Program have developed a new, less-thirsty strain they call Jaspe

Far from tropical conditions

Less-thirsty rice offers hope in drought-stricken Chile

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