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The Po River has never fallen this low so early in the year

'Never dropped so fast, so early'

Farmers fear drought as Italy's longest river runs dry

Switzerland's glaciers are taking a hammering from the European heatwave

Swiss glaciers facing drastic loss from heatwave: expert

Switzerland's Beznau plant, near the northern border with Germany, is Europe's oldest functioning nuclear reactor

Europe's oldest

Swiss nuclear plant shut down due to heatwave

Weather comparison

Places in Luxembourg could feel like Dubai on Saturday

The first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our home galaxy the Milky Way

The 'point of no return'

'Fingerprints' of black hole's event horizon detected for first time

Asteroid zooming past Earth on Saturday visible to stargazers

An image of the bright heart of the Milky Way taken by Europe's Euclid space telescope

Captured over 26 hours

Euclid telescope snaps best photo yet of Milky Way's heart

The world's population is suffering through more extreme heat stress driven by climate change, according to a new study

Propelled by climate change

Dangerous 'heat stress' has surged worldwide, study shows

Based on new study

Heavy drivers can save hundreds of euros each month by switching to electric

Summer solstice

The longest day of the year in Luxembourg

FIFA president Gianni Infantino flew to 10 matches in seven days at the World Cup including co-hosts USA against Paraguay at the Los Angeles Stadium

FIFA draws criticism as Infantino clocks up air miles at World Cup

German forecasters warned of severe heat in parts of the country but also thunderstorms, hail and heavy rain

'Intense and long-lasting' heatwave

Europe swelters as more heat records set to tumble

The 19th century Parmelan mountain lodge relies entirely on rainwater

'Every litre counts'

French mountain lodges worry over strained water supply

France has been sweltering under high temperatures for several days

Nearly 36 million people

Heatwave hits more than one in two people in France

Birds are particularly vulnerable to heat, with a body temperature of between 39C and 42C that rises further during flight or when foraging

Disrupting feeding and breeding

From birds to fish, how extreme heat causes wildlife to suffer

A new lease of life: Our planet may escape a fatal spiral into the exploding fireball of the Sun

Delicate balance

The Sun may not engulf Earth after all, scientists say

Ee vun de 6 Schwaarzbieren aus Südkorea, déi konnte gerett ginn

Pawsitive outcome

Six bears find new home in Denmark with Cargolux support

Lying 4,000 kms southwest of mainland Australia, the sub-Antarctic volcanic Heard and McDonald Islands are fearsomely wild and a key breeding colony for elephant seals

Breeding colony

Bird flu kills 13,000 seal pups on remote Australian island

Herdsman Sawai Singh Bhati (C) sits under the shade of a tree in 44 degrees Celsius temperatures, near his house in Sanwata village, Rajasthan

Trying to adjust

India learns to live with hotter summers

Young people dived into the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris to beat the heat

Adapting to temperatures

France braces for heatwave with canal swimming allowed in Paris

Forecasters have predicted below-average monsoon rainfall in India this year, which could hurt the country's crucial agriculture sector

Each one is different

India braces for El Nino-linked dry conditions

De Premier Luc Frieden war zu Nidderaanwen bei der Aweiung vum neie Carport dobäi

Energy transition

Niederanven aims to become climate-neutral by 2050

Ziel mir keng! – Science Check

Five positive environmental news stories

Almost a third of global coral reefs have been deemed 'resilient' by the new study

'Much more hopeful future'

Vast areas of coral reef could resist climate change: study

Mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit are a growing concern as climate change expands the area the insects roam

Over a million annual deaths

Scientist confronting the rising global threat of mosquitoes

Terratis breeds millions of tiger mosquitoes to stop them from reproducing

Breeding to stop reproduction?

Scaling up key as French firm bets on sterile mosquitoes

Local farmer Neetu sprinkles organic biofertiliser in a field in Bichpuri village near Uttar Pradesh's Tappal town

Among largest consumers

India eyes biofertilisers after Mideast war stoked supply fears

Fishermen and their boats near the confluence of the Kok River and Mekong River in northern Thailand. Thailand's pollution Scientists say they have found arsenic concentrations of up to nine times the level considered dangerous for aquatic life in the area

High arsenic concentrations

Toxic 'time bomb' threatens Mekong river basin

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