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

'Exceptional' discovery

Ancient bones of giant amphibians unearthed in Luxembourg

European satellite group ready to step up for Kyiv's military: CEO

Archaeologist Francois Guede Yiode keeps the prehistoric stones in his home

Concealed treasures

Ivory Coast's epochal prehistoric finds pass unseen

SpaceX Dragon Crew-10 members greet International Space Station crew members including NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (L) and Suni Williams (3R) on March 16, 2025

'Unbelievable resilience'

Astronauts finally head home after unexpected nine-month ISS stay

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China

Pacific Ocean patch

Kiribati eyes deep-sea mining deal with China

Just 25 years ago, experts feared that Siamese crocodile might no longer exist outside zoos, but conservation efforts have helped change that

Making progress

'We will preserve them': saving Cambodia's crocodiles

Long associated with hippie counter-culture, 'magic mushrooms' remain illegal in the United States

'Eye-opening experience'

Legalizing magic mushrooms under Trump? Psychedelic fans remain skeptical

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare to return home after nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), some of the health risks they've faced are well-documented and managed, while others remain a mystery

Innovative solutions needed

What happens to the human body in deep space?

A protester holds up his arms in front of private security guards and guard dogs at a work site for the Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota in September 2016

Targeting Greenpeace

Jury deliberates US pipeline case with free speech implications

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) said its own technical analysis has revealed 'alarming' consequences for the telescopes that form part of its Paranal Observatory from a green energy project billed for the Atacama desert

European star-gazing agency says Chile green power plant will ruin its view

Activists rallied against deep sea mining outside the European Parliament in March 2023

Call for caution

Talks on divisive deep-sea mining resume in Jamaica

A tugboat accompanies the stricken Solong cargo ship following a devastating crash in the North Sea

Recovery efforts underway

Plastic pellets spotted in water after North Sea ship crash

The buildings sector consumes 32% of the world's energy and contributes 34% of CO2 emissions

'More and faster': UN calls to shrink buildings' carbon footprint

Lliuya wants RWE to share the cost of protecting his hometown from flood risks

David v Goliath battle

Peruvian farmer demands 'climate justice' from German energy giant

The Webb telescope as it left Earth in 2021

130 light years away

Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO2 for first time

NASA duo Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck aboard the ISS since June

Stuck for nine months

Stranded US astronauts to return to Earth on Tuesday: NASA

A handout image released by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on March 15 shows a damaged marina on Clearwater Lake near Piedmont, Missouri

Overwhelming damage

Toll from US weekend tornadoes rises to at least 40

Miliband is the third minister in Starmer's cabinet to visit China

Forced labour in supply chains

UK energy minister in Beijing seeks to press China on emissions

A record influx of foreign tourists to Japan has sparked alarm about overcrowding on the nation's highest mountain

From this summer

Mount Fuji hikers to be charged $27 on all trails

Brilliant minds

Young scientists shine at 54th annual national competition in Luxembourg

Polymetallic nodules and an abyssal urchin

In the lightless abyss

'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists

A carnivorous sponge near the nodule-strewn seabed of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Strange and rare animals

Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows

The experimental sail uses wind to help power the cargo ship to reduce fuel use

Across the Atlantic

Wind-powered mast to cut emissions sets sail to Canada

Hungry for zircon: The world's biggest mining dredger rig is so big it moves by being floated on its own lake

Acre after acre

Giant mine machine swallowing up Senegal's fertile coast

Gian Paolo Daguer is nicknamed Colombia's 'Lord of the Fruit' for his efforts to protect natural delicacies such as the lucuma from disappearing

Environmental engineer

Colombia's 'Lord of the Fruit' fighting for native species

Infographic showing exploration areas licensed by the International Seabed Authority

International waters

Why are proposed deep-sea mining rules so contentious?

Unusually high winter temperatures across Greece are about to plunge to freezing, dealing a blow to agriculture

Greece rides a weather 'rollercoaster'

Violent storms destroyed homes including here in Missouri

At least 33 dead as tornadoes ravage central US

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