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The majority of India's announced steel development plans involve higher-emissions blast furnace production, in a country whose steel industry is already the world's most carbon intensive

Doubling production by 2030

India steel plans threaten global emissions goals: report

Farmer Luke Abblitt inspects his crop of sugar beets on Daintree Farm in Cambridgeshire which he says are half the size they should be due to lack of rain

Soil parched, crops stunted

UK farmers pray for rain amid driest spring since 1852

Floral artist Ricky Paul looks at the Chelsea Punk, a mohican made from pampas grass

Innovation and adaptation

AI talking trees feature at Chelsea Flower Show

Slaves to fashion: A baby howler monkey holds a capuchin on Jicaron island, where stealing infants has been become a trend

For no apparent reason

Monkeys kidnap babies of another species in weird 'fad'

Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of climbers each spring

World's fourth highest peak

Indian, Romanian climbers die on Nepal's Lhotse

Vet Rolf Arne Olberg checks if a polar bear is properly sedated

Endangered species

Polar bear biopsies to shed light on Arctic pollutants

A fisherman on Iraq's receding marshes that straddle the border with Iran

Protected Mesopotamian areas

'Leave our marshes alone': Iraqis fear oil drilling would destroy fabled wetlands

The storm destroyed hundreds of homes in London, Kentucky

Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia

Severe storms, tornadoes kill more than 25 in south-central US

Medical cannabis has been a boon for the Berlin-based company whose website slogan says 'we love cannabis' and whose Frankfurt Stock Exchange ticker symbol is 'HIGH'

Amid partial legalisation

High times for German cannabis firm amid medical boom

Happier days: Marineland in 2013

'Emergency' situation

Worry for orcas in French marine park spikes after video

Sharks getting closer to the shoreline in Hadera, central Israel

Human-wildlife conflict

'Alpha predator' sharks and humans clash on an Israeli beach

A carer helps an elderly resident - one of three Alzheimer sufferers in the establishment- in a house at L'Hay-les- Roses on the outskirts of Paris

Potentially allowing earlier treatment

US approves first blood test for Alzheimer's

Grok's unprompted 'White Genocide' claims have stirred online controversy.

Mired in controversy

Musk's xAI blames 'unauthorized' tweak for 'white genocide' posts

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Thursday the move -- which retains Biden-era limits for just two of the most notorious PFAS compounds while rescinding them for four others -- was procedural and temporary in nature.

'Forever chemicals'

Trump admin leaves door open for tougher PFAS drinking water standards

Kabul faces a looming water crisis, driven by unruly and rapid urbanisation, mismanagement over years of conflict, and climate change

Urgent action needed

'Serious problem': Afghan capital losing race against water shortages

Eric Trump said his latest venture into the crypto industry, American Bitcoin, aims to mine the digital currency for cheaper than its rivals

Slashing environmental protections

Eric Trump says father's energy policies will help crypto

White rhinos have been the targets of a poaching epidemic that has largely wiped them out

Largest ever transfer

70 South African white rhinos to be relocated to Rwanda

Renewable and nuclear energy are helping China lower emissions despite rising power demand

China first-quarter emissions fell despite rising power demand

A handout photo released by the Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police shows a rescued orangutan baby in a plastic basket in Bangkok

Critically endangered species

Thai man arrested for smuggling baby orangutans

A vast bloom of toxic algae is killing more than 200 species of marine life off the coast of South Australia

'Carcasses littering beaches'

Toxic algae killing marine life off Australian coast

Kinshasa authorities have begun demolishing unauthorised buildings after deadly floods

After deadly floods

Kinshasa deploys excavators against illegally built homes

Tiger mosquitoes, which transmit dengue and chikungunya, are venturing north due to warming temperatures

Mosquitoes moving north

Dengue, chikungunya may soon be endemic in Europe: research

The World Health Assembly is taking place at WHO headquarters in Geneva from May 19 to 27

Annual decision-making assembly

Pandemic accord, tightened budget on menu at big WHO meet

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled over his vaccine skepticism and huge cuts to US health institutes

Interrupted by protests

Democrats grill Trump's controversial health secretary

Taiwan will turn off its last nuclear reactor, fuelling concerns over the self-ruled island's reliance on imported energy and vulnerability to a Chinese blockade

Targeting net-zero emissions

End of nuclear in Taiwan fans energy security fears

A monitor lizard, which researchers said might look a little like the ancient reptile ancestor that made the footprints

Evolutionary steps

Ancient reptile tracks rewrite when animals conquered land

An aerial photo shows the bed of Woodhead Reservoir is partially revealed by falling water levels, near Glossop, northern England as the country experiences its driest start to spring in 69 years

Extreme weather

England sees driest spring since 1956: government agency

Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer for UN-Habitat, said cities are 'the Ground Zero of heat' due to their dire impacts on vulnerable populations

'Need to redesign cities'

Urban temps turning cities into 'ovens,' UN Chief Heat Officer warns

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