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

Investigators said they had never seen eel smuggling on this scale

Destined for Asian markets

Slippery business: France jails men over eel smuggling

Less than 10 percent of all plastic is recycled, a rate that has remained stagnant even as production has exploded

New study suggests

Global plastic recycling rates 'stagnant' at under 10%: study

The puppets aim to have crossed around 10 countries between central Africa and the Arctic by August

Migration awareness

Herd of animal puppets treks from Africa to Europe in climate action

Papua New Guinea will 'immediately' lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister said, opening up its vast wilderness to offset global emissions

Immediate effect

Papua New Guinea lifts ban on forest carbon credits

Norway has found minerals on its seabed that it believes can be used for the green energy transition

Environmentalists dismayed

Companies keen to start deep-sea mining off Norway

The satellites will be positioned hundreds of miles above the Earth

Starlink competition

Amazon satellite launch scrubbed due to weather

Donald Trump's tariffs on imports of non-US products -- some of them suspended and altered numerous times -- threaten economic disruption for Latin American and Caribbean economies

Under the eye of China

Strength in numbers: Latin America urges unity in face of Trump tariffs

Heavy pollution hangs over Kathmandu on April 7, 2025

Hazardous air quality

Nepal fights wildfires and pollution amidst drier winter

Jared Isaacman, an e-payments billionaire, is a close ally of Elon Musk who has flown to space twice with SpaceX as a private astronaut

American astronauts to Mars

Trump's NASA chief pick says will 'prioritize' Mars mission

An orca swims with its baby at the Marineland animal park in the French Riviera city of Antibes in 2013

Wikie and Keijo

France struggles to find new home for two orcas after park closes

Japan's 'sakura' season is feverishly anticipated by locals and visitors alike, with the profusion of the stunning blossoms marking the start of spring

AI tool aims to help conserve Japan's cherry trees

Activists and NGOs are concerned about the impact of deep-sea mining, citing the environmental destruction it results in

Charting new course

The Metals Company courts Trump for deep-sea mining contract

Workers remove a magnolia tree believed to have been planted by former US President Andrew Jackson nearly 200 years ago due to safety concerns, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. An enormous tree known as the Jackson Magnolia which has shaded the White House's South Portico for the majority of US presidencies will be taken down this week, Donald Trump said Sunday.

Planted by Andrew Jackson

Trump plants 'MAGAnolia' to replace 200-year-old tree

Conservationists have cleared invasive shrubs and planted thousands of native trees in the Colorado River Delta, part of a Mexican region bordering the United States

Two-decade effort

Once-dying Mexican river delta slowly nursed back to life

The 8,091-metre (26,545-foot) Annapurna is a dangerous and difficult climb, and the avalanche-prone Himalayan peak has a higher death rate than Everest

First ascent of the season

Two Nepalis swept away by Annapurna avalanche

Some areas of Europe were hit by extreme rainfall while others experienced record dry conditions

Global temperatures at near historic highs in March: EU monitor

Many researchers are worried about the future of academic freedom in the United States

Funding and support cuts

'Major brain drain': Researchers eye exit from Trump's America

Two zebras were among the animals that German police discovered in the van

Stopped on Dutch border

German police earn their stripes with zebra-loaded van stop

Indigenous communities want as much of a say as world leaders at this year's UN climate change conference in the Brazilian Amazon

Indigenous leaders want same clout as world leaders at UN climate talks

Starmer visited a Jaguar Land Rover car factory in Birmingham, central England, in a show of industry support

Loosening electric vehicle targets

Starmer unveils support for tariff-hit auto sector

There are allegations that some EU money given to NGOs was used to lobby European institutions

'Greater transparency' needed

EU funding of NGOs 'too opaque', auditors find amid political storm

Anja Windl became known for her protests against climate change, including gluing herself on streets

'Danger for the public'

German climate activist faces expulsion from Austria after ban

Microplastics under a microscope in a laboratory at the University of Plymouth

'Smaller than a grain of rice'

'Alarming' microplastic pollution in Europe's great rivers

The vast majority of measles cases tallied by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are patients not vaccinated against the disease

Outbreak worsening

Second US child dies of measles, almost 650 ill: officials

Photos shared on social and local media showed widespread damage from the storm across several US states

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama

US storms, 'devastating' flooding death toll climbs to 17

A man lies on top of a car amid rising floodwaters in Kinshasa

Deadly downpour

Torrential rains kill dozens in DR Congo capital

American neurologist Stephen Hauser's work on multiple sclerosis (MS) started more than 45 years ago, when he met a young patient named Andrea

Neurodegenerative disease

Research on multiple sclerosis wins 'Oscars of science'

An alien's blog

Earth's wonders and wounds

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