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

This map shows the visible zones for the total lunar eclipse, when the moon appears red-orange, according to NASA

Celestial spectacle

Americas to witness rare 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse

Europe's oldest humans remain the Dmanisi hominins, who lived 1.8 million years ago in what is now Georgia

Discovered in Spain

Meet 'Pink', the new face of human evolution in Europe

The Longview Power Plant, a coal-fired plant, stands on August 21, 2018 in Maidsville, West Virginia

Mass layoffs expected

Trump administration unveils sweeping environment rollbacks

Torrential rains flooded homes and hospitals, destroyed roads and killed at least 16 people in the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca

After flash floods

Milei pledges funds for deluge-stricken Argentine city

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks as US Vice President JD Vance visits the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio

'Fortune sent to left wing groups'

Trump cuts environment program for low-income, minority communities

Beavers are among the most famous of nature's architects, renowned for building dams that redirect rivers and reshape wetlands

From beavers to hippos

Many animal 'geomorphs' under threat, study warns

Northvolt's factory in northern Sweden has performed well under its production capacity

Failed to secure financing

Battery maker Northvolt files for bankruptcy in Sweden

Palau's president wants US leader Donald Trump to come snorkelling with him to understand climate change

Archipelago off coast of Philippines

Snorkel with me to understand climate change, Palau president tells Trump

'Deceptive allegations'

Morocco fights measles outbreak amid vaccine misinformation

Located in a basin surrounded by mountains, Ulaanbaatar traps smoke and fumes from both coal-guzzling power stations and homes

Grim statistics

Mongolia's children choke in toxic pollution

US Space Force Colonel Bree Fram poses at her home in Reston, Virginia on March 9, 2025

'Unfit' to serve

Once accepted, trans troops face dismissal from US military

Colombia is the world's main producer of cocaine, which is extracted from the coca leaf

Unleashing full potential

Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list

An undated handout photo released by the University of Queensland shows an image of the boulder using 3D imaging and light filters showing the dinosaur footprints

Unnoticed for 20 years

Trove of dinosaur footprints found at Australian school

'Reduction in force'

NASA fires chief scientist, more Trump cuts to come

Investigations have already started into what led the cargo ship to strike the tanker carrying jet fuel

Toxic materials ablaze

UK makes manslaughter arrest of ship captain over North Sea crash

Demonstrators protest against the Ceraweek by S&P Global energy conference, near the hotel where the conference is being attended, in Houston, Texas, on March 10, 2025

'Realistic' approach

Oil companies greet Trump return, muted on tariffs

Scientists protest in Washington square park in New York City on March 7, 2025

Scientists say Trump cuts threaten climate research, public safety

A rescued two-month-old male wild Sumatran elephant, separated from its mother in a palm oil plantation, sleeps

On the brink of extinction

Baby elephant separated from mother rescued in Indonesia

A general view of the marshes of Donana National Park, in Almonte, Huelva, on February 28, 2025

Following abundant rainfall

Spain near end of four-year drought: weather agency

Pakistan regularly ranks among the world's most polluted countries

20 times above safe levels

'Really suffocating': Pakistan emerges from record smog season

Guatemala's Fuego volcano is located 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the capital Guatemala City

Families seek refuge

Guatemala volcanic eruption deemed over after spewing lava, evacuations

Energex crews clear a fallen tree following the passage of tropical cyclone Alfred in Brisbane on March 8, 2025.

120,000 properties still blacked out in storm-hit Australia

View of the North Sea between the turrets of the entrance to the old pier in Withernsea, on the east coast of England near where a collision between a tanker and a cargo ship caused multiple explosions

Rescue mission has ended

What we know about the North Sea tanker collision

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright addresses attendees of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates conference in Houston, Texas

To favor fossil fuels

Trump's energy chief vows reversal of Biden climate policies

Veteran climate diplomat Andre Correa do Lago of Brazil has been appointed president of the next UN climate summit, being hosted in the South American nation

Limitations of global negotiations

UN climate summits must deliver on promises: COP30 head

Raifall dumped by Cyclone Alfred on Australia's east coast led to flash flood warnings and power outages

Floods hit eastern Australia, 190,000 properties blacked out

Industry experts are skeptical that oil companies will significantly ramp up drilling in spite of Donald Trump's calls for more production

Championing fossil fuels

Energy industry meets after Trump tears up US green agenda

Scientists protested in New York City against funding cuts

French research groups urged to welcome scientists fleeing US

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