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BP and other oil majors have been hit by a recent slump in crude prices

BP profit drops 70% amid pivot back to oil and gas

A team of scientists believe many of the echidna's unusual traits were first developed millions of years ago when its ancestors splashed through the water

Egg-laying mammals

Study sheds light on origin of Australia's odd echidna

Salmon pens belonging to the Tassal company located off Charlotte Cove, in the d'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania.

Dead salmon create election stink on Australian island

An Atlas V rocket of United Launch Alliance is seen fueling at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 9, 2025

Amazon launches first Starlink-rival internet satellites

A decades-old supply treaty obliges Mexico to provide the United States with water from the Rio Grande river

Diplomatic spat

Mexico agrees to send water to US after Trump threatens tariffs

The US is pushing ahead with efforts to mine the seafloor for valuable minerals, despite ecological and regulatory concerns

France accuses US of violating international law

Trump's deep-sea mining order violates global norms: France

Devastation centred on the second most populous city of Mandalay

Strongest since 1912

Myanmar marks month of misery since historic quake

Sperm shaped confetti rests on the floor after a Sperm Racing competition in Los Angeles, California

US students 'race' sperm in reproductive health stunt

Only a few European laboratories run DNA analysis to test honey

Beekeepers' livelihoods threatened

Austria trials DNA testing to uncover honey fraud

Just Stop Oil climate activists marched for the last time

Amid change of focus

Just Stop Oil activist group holds final march

The 2025 United Nations (UN) Oceans Conference, seen here with Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivering a speech at the 2022 edition, serves as a nexus for ratifying a 2023 High Seas pact by member nations

UN Oceans Conference

On the horizon? Wave of momentum for high seas treaty

COP30 CEO Ana Toni has urged the EU to remain climate leaders as the 27-nation bloc haggles over its emission reduction targets

Don't make 'disappointing' retreat on climate, COP30 CEO urges EU

China's wind and solar energy capacity has surpassed that of mostly coal-powered thermal for the first time

China says wind and solar energy capacity exceeds thermal for first time

Iraqi farmer Hadi Saheb says he is cultivating 20 times more land than before in the Najaf desert thanks to groundwater and a government initiative

Iraq farmers turn to groundwater to boost desert yield

The initiative marks the 20th International Nomads Festival in M'Hamid El Ghizlane in southeast Morocco

Gateway to desert

Morocco volunteers on Sahara clean-up mission

President Donald Trump seeks to boost US deep-sea mining in part to counter China's dominance in the burgeoning industry

Disrupting ocean floor ecosystems

Trump signs order to ramp up US deep-sea mining

An ancient artifact found in a recently discovered burial site at the Aspero archaeological complex, belonging to the Caral civilization, during a press presentation at the Ministry of Culture in Lima on April 24, 2025

Oldest centre of civilisation in Americas

Remains of 5,000-year-old noblewoman found in Peru dig

The Cobre Panama mine was closed by the courts in 2023 following weeks of crippling protests over its environmental impact

Central America's biggest copper mine

Panama president says moving toward reopening contested mine

The future of renewable energy is causing international disagreements

Amid economic turmoil

US opposes 'dangerous' anti-fossil fuel policies at global summit

Three Chinese astronauts blasted off from a remote desert launch site at the start of a six-month mission to China's space station

Boots on the moon

Three Chinese astronauts blast off for Tiangong space station

Areas affected by fires in the Brasilia National Forest region in Brazil

Gaming the system

Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts: report

Locals use poisoned rats to lure the birds then pounce when they are incapacitated

Protected birds

Ugandans kill migrating storks in desperation for food

China announced Wednesday that a veteran astronaut will lead two crew members this week on their first flight to the Tiangong space station

Mentoring next generation

Veteran Chinese astronaut to lead fresh crew to space station

Corals turn white under heat stress, which causes them to expel the algae which give them bright colours and nutrients

Essential ecosystems

Coral reefs pushed to brink as bleaching crisis worsens

Nguyen Thi Kim sitting on a pillar of a destroyed house at the original site of Lang Nu village in Lao Cai province, after part of it was wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi

Survivors relocated

Vietnam village starts over with climate defences after landslide

The US Supreme Court will decide whether parents have the right to prevent their kids from studying inclusive, LGBTQ-related texts in a case out of public schools in the eastern state of Maryland

Controversial coursework

Top US court leans toward parents in case on LGBTQ books in schools

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) is a documented vaccine skeptic

US official backs off promise to solve cause of autism by September

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says 'significant' jobs will be lost at the UN agency because of US spending cuts

WHO announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts

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