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

The Malaysian air force used cloud seeding in 2019 after forest fires in Indonesia

Attempting to control the weather

Clouds and conspiracies: concerns over push to make rain

How clouds will act in a warmer world is one of the biggest challenges in climate science

Warming and cooling

Clouds changing as world warms, adding to climate uncertainty

A stream of casualties were rushed to the hospital in Naypyidaw -- some in cars, others in pickups, and others carried on stretchers, their bodies bloody and covered in dust after a huge quake

Restricted capacity

Lines of wounded at Myanmar hospital after powerful quake

A house glows after being torched by a wildfire in Cheongsong

Worst-ever wildfires

Rain gives some respite to South Korea firefighters as death toll rises

China's wind power manufacturers are beginning to make headway overseas

World's wind energy forerunner

Clean energy giant Goldwind leads China's global sector push

The loss of polar ice spells disaster for numerous species, robbing polar bears, seals, and penguins of crucial habitat used for shelter, hunting, and breeding

Arctic sea ice hits lowest peak in satellite record, says US agency

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

Why has Mexico's water debt opened new battle line with US?

Gaia's map of the entire sky, based on a measurement of nearly 1.8 billion stars

Space telescope Gaia sent into 'retirement' but legacy endures

Smoke rises from a wildfire in Andong early on March 27, 2025

Containment efforts in vain

South Korea wildfires 'largest on record': disaster chief

A drone attack on a Nigerian military base in the country's northeast wounded five personnel in December, 2024

Intelligence report

Nigeria, Sahel militants embrace DIY drone warfare

Fungi, the lifeblood of most plants, underpin ecological diversity on Earth

Lifeblood of plants

Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN

'It is the end of soup on Van Goghs,' the group said in a statement

Soup on Van Gogh

Just Stop Oil activist group says to stop climate protest stunts

75% of respondents to an AAAI survey agreed 'scaling up' LLMs was unlikely to produce artificial general intelligence

Marketing spin?

Firms and researchers at odds over superhuman AI

Health worker tries to immunise a child during a vaccination campaign against polio at Hotoro-Kudu, Nassarawa district of Kano in northwest Nigeria

Threatening progress

Trump administration to cut vaccine support to developing countries: report

The Chilean port of Valparaiso was rocked by protests by artisanal fishermen demanding a greater share of the catch quota, particularly for hake

Tear gas deployed

Chile rocked by clashes over fishing quotas

The village of Tipuani in western Bolivia has been under water for two months

Nine departments affected

Bolivia declares state of emergency to combat floods

Nuuk, the capital of Greenland -- which Donald Trump wants to be part of the United States

For 'international security'

Trump reiterates US need to 'have' Greenland ahead of Vance visit

Workers at a construction site in India during 2022's partial solar eclipse

At most 90% coverage

Partial solar eclipse in northern areas on Saturday

Scientists in Britain assessed the lasting impact of one of the oldest known mining tracks in the vast Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), stretching between Hawaii and Mexico

Underwater threat

Deep sea mining impacts visible for 'many decades'

After decades of experimentation, pigs have emerged as the best organ donors for humans

Genetically modified

Chinese doctors implant pig liver in human for first time

Fish swim around the Antilla Shipwreck off of Noord, Aruba on May 12, 2024

Protecting undersea cultural heritage in spotlight at mining code talks

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends the Petersberg Climate Dialogue

'Economic opportunities'

US may miss out on green tech boom: Germany

Wildfires in South Korea have claimed 24 lives and destroyed thousands of hectares of forests

Workers save Buddha as S. Korea's wildfires raze ancient temple

IPCC chair Jim Skea says the UN's climate expert advisory panel and its landmark reports remain 'manifestly relevant'

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

'We are not in crisis': chair of IPCC climate body to AFP

Solar eclipse

Everything you need to know

Partial solar eclipse over Luxembourg: what to expect on Saturday, 29 March

A wildfire is seen next to a stone lantern of a family tomb in Andong on March 26, 2025

Mass evacuations

'Like the apocalypse': S. Korea wildfires tear through mountains

A helicopter drops water as a wildfire advances towards Gounsa Temple in Uiseong

'Unprecedented damage'

South Korea's wildfires kill 24, wreak 'unprecedented damage'

An estimate by environmental conservation nonprofit Oceana found that Coca-Cola's plastic use is projected to exceed 4.13 million metric tons (9.12 billion pounds) annually by 2030

Over a billion pounds of Coke plastic waste to enter waterways: study

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