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

Khalaf Allah al-Talhi: 'I love roses and take care of them more than I care for my own children'

Signature scent

Saudi 'city of roses' offers fragrant reminder of desert's beauty

A protest against massive cuts in federal research funding takes place on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on April 8, 2025

'Rage against science'

Scientists sound alarm as Trump reshapes US research landscape

Ralph Keeling, whose father, Charles, began collecting data measuring atmospheric CO2 concentration almost seven decades ago

Climate watchers fret over Trump's cut to sciences

A snow leopard, seen here in India's northern Ladakh region in March

Offers a rare shot of hope

Landmark Nepal survey estimates nearly 400 elusive snow leopards

Since their return to power, the Taliban now claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan's millennia-old heritage, including pre-Islamic relics

Pre-Islamic relics

Taliban change tune towards Afghan heritage sites

Soldiers search wrecked cars after flooding in Valencia, Spain, on November 8, 2024

Strategic 'blind spot'

Global warming is a security threat and armies must adapt: experts

An aerial view of the city of Athens on April 18, 2025

Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering Athens

Pope Francis regularly discussed climate change at major events such as the 2023 world Youth Day event in Lisbon

Simplicity, courage, and empathy

Climate campaigners praise a cool pope

Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First party, said the bill would move the country away from

Condemning 'woke ideology'

Draft NZ law seeks 'biological' definition of man, woman

A deforested area in Merauke regency, South Papua, that will be converted into a sugar cane plantation

Replaced by crops

Indonesia food plan risks 'world's largest' deforestation

A Long March-2F carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou-19 spacecraft lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Eyes on the moon

China to launch new crewed mission into space this week

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

'All kinds' of trash

Morocco volunteers on Sahara clean-up mission

Macron was visiting four months after the most destructive cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean archipelago in 90 years

Three-billion-euro package

Macron vows to step up reconstruction in cyclone-hit Mayotte

Night sky spectacle

Annual Lyrid meteor shower to peak on Monday night

Snowfall in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people dependent on snowmelt for water

Vital source of fresh water

Himalayan snow at 23-year low, threatening 2 billion people: report

The Wildlife Forensic Academy is set inside a warehouse in a private game reserve

Teaching investigation skills

Inside South Africa's wildlife CSI school helping to catch poachers

Surf Life Saving Australia issued a warning on Thursday that strong swells would create hazardous conditions

Outskirts of Sydney

Six drowning deaths as huge waves hit Australian coast

The storm unleashed rains that drenched parts of northern Italy and dumped snow at higher altitudes

Death toll rises

Four killed after spring storms wreak havoc in the Alps

France is offering US researchers a haven at its universities

Luring US scientists hit by cuts

Macron invites foreign researchers to 'choose France'

Conflict between humans and wild elephants has grown -- 629 people were killed by elephants across India in 2023-2024, according to parliamentary figures

Preventing fatal tramplings

India's elephant warning system tackles deadly conflict

Aix Marseille University, in the south of France, is opening its doors to some 20 'refugee scientists' leaving Trump's America

'Safe Place for Science' scheme

First US 'refugee scientists' to arrive in France in weeks: university

Promising hints

Where are all the aliens?: Fermi's Paradox explained

Solar power grew rapidly in Vietnam until 2020 but its success hit a roadblock due to infrastructure limitations

National power plan

Vietnam ups wind, solar targets as energy demand soars

An artist's illustration of a hycean planet -- ocean worlds that astronomers think could host microbial life

124 light years away

Strongest 'hints' yet of life detected on distant planet

Denmark announced in March it would allocate $110 million for the new military drone testing centre

Opening test centre

Changing face of war puts Denmark on drone offensive

US President Donald Trump is trying to pressure Harvard University to submit to government supervision

Teaching 'hate and stupidity'

Trump says 'joke' Harvard should be stripped of funds

The survival of America's symbol, the bald eagle, has been credited to the Endangered Species Act

'Common-sense concept'

Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals

Water levels at Lake Constance in southern Germany are at their lowest in decades after a very dry start to the spring

Expecting poor harvests

Germany sees 'worrying' record dry spell in early 2025

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