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Officials in Sri Lanka said they were withholding the results of a survey of crop-destroying wildlife because monkey business appeared to have distorted some of the data

Data appeared unrealistic

Monkey business delays Sri Lanka's wildlife survey

Image grab taken from video footage provided by whale rescue group Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA) on June 9, 2025 shows a distressed humpback whale tangled in a rope swimming south of Sydney Harbou

Distressed animal

Tangled humpback whale sparks rescue mission off Australia

South Africa is one of the largest polluters in the world and generates about 80 percent of its electricity through coal

Losing billions

SAfrica's coal dependency puts economy at risk: report

Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself

Climate change heightens risk of Indian farmer suicides

Farmed salmon -- like the ones grown in pens here in the Australian island state of Tasmania -- are easier to grow than some other fish species

Important source for diets

Farmed production of some fish - and seaweed - is soaring

Nations gathering at the UN Ocean Conference are under pressure to deliver more to restore the health of the seas

No US delegation expected

World leaders urged to step up for overexploited oceans

The team has just minutes after a rhino is tranquilised

Two-tonne operation

How to move a rhino

Tim Friede has allowed himself to be bitten by snakes more than 200 times

'I know what it feels like to die'

Man who let snakes bite him 200 times spurs new antivenom hope

France is hosting the third edition of the UN Ocean Conference in the Riviera city of Nice

Money, mining and marine parks: The big issues at UN ocean summit

Kimberly Price, 53, takes care of baby oysters at her home in Maryland

US oyster gardeners rebuild nature's own water-cleaning system

Local Ocean Conservation helpers and fishermen carry a Loggerhead sea turtle saved from a net

Fighting poachers and polution

Kenya NGO saves turtles from nets, plastic and rising tides

Elon Musk gives a tour to then President-elect Donald Trump and lawmakers of the control room before the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024

Private power, public risk

Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans

Chilean fisherman Rodrigo Gallardo used to fill his trawler with hake but these days he reels in few of the country's favorite catch

Missing merluza

Missing merluza: Chile's battle to save its favorite catch

The Metals Company CEO Gerard Barron says the Canadian company will

Submarine mining pioneer

'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO

SpaceX's Crew Dragon -- a gumdrop-shaped capsule that flies atop a Falcon 9 rocket and splashes down in the ocean -- is currently the only US spacecraft certified to carry crew to the ISS under a contact worth more than $4.9 billion

SpaceX's 'Dragon'

In row with Trump, Musk says will end critical US spaceship program

Aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin, president of The Mars Society, says efforts to reach the Red Planet should be seen as a journey of hope

Renowned Mars expert says Trump-Musk axis risks dooming mission

This handout photo from NASA shows images from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover at its new home in Jezero Crater on February 21, 2021, after touching down on the planet several days earlier

US national priority

The promise and peril of a crewed Mars mission

Smoke rises from Guatemala's Fuego volcano

Hundreds evacuated as Guatemalan volcano erupts

Dehorning rhinos leaves only small horn rumps that deter most poachers

Dehorning of S.African rhinos slashed poaching: study

Indigenous rights and environmental activists have continued to call for justice in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira

Freelanced for Washington Post and the Guardian

Brazil charges man with killings of UK journalist, activist

NGOs accuse TotalEnergies of 'misleading commercial practices' for saying it could reach carbon neutrality while continuing oil and gas production

Accused of misleading consumers

TotalEnergies in landmark greenwashing trial in France

The Baltic has become one of the most heavily polluted marine ecosystems on the planet

Roadmap on marine conservation

EU eyes leadership role on oceans ahead of UN summit

The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world's largest dead marine zones, mainly due to excess nutrient runoff into the sea from human activities on land

Decades of pollution

Ailing Baltic Sea in need of urgent attention

120 billion a year

Greenpeace slams Coca-Cola for producing billions of plastic bottles

Operations have grown around Weda Bay, the world's largest nickel mine by production, on Halmahera island as Indonesia exploits the metal reserves

Environmental damage

Indonesia allowing nickel industry abuses to go unchecked: report

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet with his NATO counterparts in Brussels

US pressures NATO to seal deal on ramping up defence spending

Vaccination is very effective against diphtheria, a highly contagious bacterial infection

Highly contagious bacterial infection

Europe suffers its largest diphtheria outbreak in 70 years

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla blasts off into space next week as the first Indian to join the International Space Station

Fighter pilot takes next giant step for India's space plans

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