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

This image grab from a March 2, 2025 video and released by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly's Blue Ghost lander during its lunar landing as part of the Ghost Mission 1

Touchdown succesful

Private US company aces lunar landing on first mission

Vianden Castle by night.

A night under the stars

Celestial wonders: Luxembourg's night sky in March

Indian rescuers hurried in sub-zero temperatures to dig out workers buried by an avalanche in a remote border area

Amid sub-zero temperatures

Rescue efforts enter third day at India avalanche site

A helicopter is pictured above the wildfire near Ofunato

Four days after start

Thousands flee after Japan's biggest wildfire in decades

New Delhi is regularly ranked as one of the most polluted cities in the world and is blanketed in acrid smog each year

One of most poluted cities

Delhi bans old cars from refuelling to help tackle city's pollution

At least four people were killed in India after an avalanche hit a remote border area, officials said

55 workers buried in snow

Four dead from India avalanche, five still missing: army

Women make seed bombs with soil to reforest areas affected by wildfires in Santa Ana de Velasco in eastern Bolivia's tropical grasslands

Year after wildfires

Burn land or plant trees? Bolivian farmers weigh their options

The Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant near Sessa Aurunca, Italy

Could play key role

Italy breaks 'taboo' with push to revive nuclear

More than 20 construction workers were missing after an avalanche in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Friday

Over 20 missing after avalanche in Indian Himalayas: rescuers

Beavers create dams and pools that boost wildlife while also fending off floods and droughts

A dam-good day for the rodents

England allows wild beaver releases in 'milestone' for UK nature

Hostility to the EU's green agenda has been swelling since before the bloc's 2024 elections

Watching in dismay

Europe's Greens have the blues as climate measures rolled back

The latest measles cases in the west Texas town of Lubbock were concentrated in a Mennonite religious community that has historically shown vaccine hesitancy

Health secretary RFK Jr. downplays situation

Parents rush to vaccinate children after measles outbreak hits Texas

Planetary parade

A rare sight: all solar system planets to be visible in evening sky this Friday

China remains the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change but is also a renewable energy powerhouse

World's second largest economy

China missed key climate target last year: official data

Children playing on the beach in Saint-Denis the day before Cyclone Garance was due to hit La Reunion

Gusts up to 200km/h

La Reunion residents ordered indoors as 'purple alert' cyclone nears

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Hundreds of firings at key US climate agency: lawmaker

COP16 President Susana Muhamad hailed the agreement as

World agrees hard-fought nature funding plan at UN talks

A freshly filed lawsuit contends that two forest projects Apple cites to claim it is offsetting carbon emmissions would be growing just the same regardless of the tech firm's involvement

Exaggerating truth

Apple accused of greenwashing in US lawsuit

Scientists have long recognized a connection between Earth's orbit and ice ages, but until recently struggled to pinpoint which orbital parameters were responsible for starting and ending these glacial cycles

Could human emissions affect it?

Study reveals how Earth's orbit controls ice ages

The reconvened biodiversity talks are due to end on Thursday

Compromise attempt

UN nature talks 'close' to breaking funding deadlock

Through the thinking glass: Scientists have discovered networks of neurons preserved in an ancient Roman's glass brain

Mount Vesuvius eruption

How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory

Workers launched a prolonged strike to try to prevent the closure of Audi's plant in Brussels

Auto industry crisis

Audi Brussels shuts down as Europe's auto woes deepen

Children received polio vaccine doses at a camp for displaced people in Nuseirat

Virus still circulating

Gaza polio vaccination drive reached 600,000 children: WHO

The Naryn River near the site of the planned Kambar-Ata-1 hydroelectric dam project in Kyrgyzstan

Rivalries aside

Climate crisis revives Soviet hydro plan in Central Asia

Dead fish on the shore of the polluted Santiago River in Mexico on July 17, 2024

Showdown in Rome

UN nature talks in last sprint to break fund deadlock

Women in Bengaluru's craft beer scene are breaking boundaries, as drinking is often frowned upon in Indian culture

The women brewing change in India, one beer at a time

Residents stand on the grounds of Confluence Baptist Church in a heavily flooded neighborhood on February 18, 2025 in Leslie County, Kentucky. Severe weather events in February claimed the lives of 22 people in the state

Amid new conspiracy theories

Proposed 'weather control' bans surge across US states

A SpaceX rocket carrying the Intuitive Machines' Athena lander lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 26, 2025

Intuitive Machines

Private US company blasts off for second Moon landing attempt

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