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

A tanker sails near an oil refining plant of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in Puerto La Cruz in November 2021

Trump ends Chevron permit in major blow to Venezuela

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has committed to delivering Trump's campaign promises, although he acknowledged last month that man-made climate change was 'real'

Trump eyes 65% staff cut at US environmental agency

The UK government must propose legally-binding milestones on the way to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions

Climate Change Committee

Britons advised to cut meat, air travel to reach net zero targets

A nurse gives Michaella a measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine made by Merck at the Utah County Health Department on April 29, 2019 in Provo, Utah

Passed away within 24 hours

Texas child dies in measles outbreak, first US fatality in years

BP may abandon a pledge to reduce oil production levels by 25 percent by 2030

Difficult trading year

BP ditches climate targets in pivot back to oil and gas

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen vowed no change to the bloc's climate goals as she announced paring back green business rules

Push for deregulation

EU vows to slash red tape but stick to climate goals

The conflagration around the United States' second city burned for three weeks, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate their homes

1.2 billion euros

Los Angeles wildfires costliest in history: Munich Re

South Korea has one of the world's longest life expectancies and lowest birth rates, a combination that presents a looming demographic challenge

First time in a decade

South Korea births rose last year on surge in marriage

An Australian couple have criticised Qatar Airways after a blanket-draped corpse was seated next to them during a long-haul flight

Australian says 'wasn't nice' sitting with corpse on long-haul flight

Nauru was once one of the wealthiest places on the planet but lucrative supplies of phosphate deposits have long dried up

Pacific microstate

Nauru sells citizenship to fund climate change mitigation

An Employee of ViaMobilidade - a company that manages subway and train lines in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area - takes the temperature of railway tracks in Osasco, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on February 24, 2025

Paint them white: how Brazil is keeping trains on track

Previous global talks on protecting nature broke up without agreement last year

'Matter of survival': Nations spar over nature funding at UN talks

This asteroid now has just a 0.001 percent chance of hitting Earth a few days before Christmas in 2032

Chance huge asteroid will hit Earth down to 0.001 percent

The UAE's population is concentrated in the coastal cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah

Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rain

Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, the disease sickened an estimated three to four million Americans annually and killed hundreds

Growing distrust

Fears of US public health crises grow amid falling vaccination rates

Pipes are stacked at the southern site of the Keystone XL pipeline in Cushing, Oklahoma in March 2012

Reversing course

Trump calls for revival of Keystone XL Pipeline project axed by Biden

The Canadian Arctic is seen near Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories

Rich in resources

'All eyes on Arctic': Canada boosts its northern force

In this handout image courtesy of Greg Blee, debris from the SpaceX Starship is seen in the sky near Providenciales, Turks and Caicos on January 16, 2025

Pending regulatory approval

SpaceX targeting Friday for next test of Starship megarocket

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) confront bulldozers working on the new oil pipeline in an effort to make them stop on September 3, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota

US oil pipeline operator

Greenpeace trial begins in North Dakota in key free speech case

CEO Tim Cook, seen here in 2023, said Apple is 'bullish on the future of American innovation'

'Largest-ever spend commitment'

Apple says to invest $500 bn in US as Trump tariffs bite

Major emerging economies are seeing rising carbon emissions

Nearly 200 nations present

US shuns climate science meeting as UN warns 'time is not on our side'

Record snowfall for February

Japan warns of avalanches, icy roads ahead of more snow

Clothing workshops in southern China have seen orders surge in recent years as e-commerce platforms Shein and Temu take the United States by storm

Straining businesses

Trump tariffs shake up China's factory heartland

French farmers are feeling unloved

France's agriculture show, an outlet for angry farmers

New Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vocal vaccine skeptic, has repeatedly and falsely linked the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism, a claim widely debunked by scientific research

Figure expected to rise

Texas measles outbreak reaches 90, mostly unvaccinated

Cook Islands leader Mark Brown (L), pictured in 2024, says a deal with China supports a broader pact on cooperation in trade, investment and the seabed minerals sector

No mining licence however

Cook Islands strikes deal with China on seabed minerals

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House

AP sues White House officials over denial of access

Los Angeles city fire chief Kristen Crowley has been sacked by the city's mayor, Karen Bass, over apparent leadership failures during deadly blazes that swept through the city

Leadership failure

LA mayor sacks fire chief over handling of deadly blazes

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