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Seeping lava and gleaming white snow has proven irresistible to tourists at Mt. Etna.

Sicily's most famous volcano

Ill-prepared trekkers swarm Mt Etna for high-altitude selfies

A brown bear on the loose after injuring four people in Sapporo, Hokkaido prefecture, in 2021

Sightings hit record levels

Japan cabinet approves 'emergency' urban bear shootings

A file photo taken 27 August 2003 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Mars snapped within minutes of the planet's closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years

Aiming for the stars

Moon or Mars? NASA's future at a crossroads under Trump

USAID has since 2012 committed a $66 million grant to uplift Sindh's municipal services, including the flagship renovation of a water purifying and pumping plant

Surpassing 50°C temperatures

Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in scorching Pakistan city

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen speaks at the Kennedy Space Center in August 2023

Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over 'abandoned' ISS crew

Najin is one of only two northern rhinos left on Earth -- for now at least

'We will save them': The quest to rescue nearly extinct rhino

Six elephants died after a train hit them on the tracks and then derailed at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka

Six animals killed

Sri Lanka train derailed after smashing into elephants

Whyalla steelworks, located around 400 kilometres northwest of Adelaide. Photo taken August 26, 2023

Billion-dollar rescue package

Australia seeks to turn failing steel plant into 'green' hub

Indonesia has pledged to phase out coal power in 15 years and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century

Committed to phasing out

Indonesia industrial coal power plans undercut emissions pledge: report

Lexington Ave in Manhattan, New York City, in December 2024

Removing daytime toll

Trump moves to end New York congestion pricing, sparking legal challenge

Environment groups are challenging the legality of US President Donald Trump's efforts to expand offshore drilling

Targeting offshore drilling

Groups launch first green lawsuits against new Trump administration

The European Alps have lost nearly 40 percent of their ice volume since 2000

Faster than expected

Global glacier melt is accelerating, scientists say

In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft into the 160-metre-wide Dimorphos asteroid, successfully altering its orbit around a larger space rock

Taking out entire cities

Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid

Santorini refugee Ilias Roussos, 54, in a camp for people fleeing the island near Athens

Popular travel destination

Islanders keen to return to Santorini even as quakes continue

The International Atomic Energy Agency is monitoring efforts to decommission the Fukushima nuclear plant after the 2011 meltdown

Plant decommissioned

UN watchdog chief visits Fukushima as Japan returns to nuclear power

FAO member states have to agree on how nature funds should be governed

Moderate optimism

New arena, new attitudes? Cash spat in spotlight at UN nature talks

Dolphins stranded on a beach near Arthur River on the west coast of Tasmania

Rangers to euthanise 90 dolphins stranded on remote Australian beach

US President Donald Trump has called himself the

Reliable and affordable

Trump moves to widen IVF access, risking conservative fury

For years the United States has helped to buy life-saving medicine for tropical disease, combat illegal fishing, and better prepare coastal hamlets for earthquakes and typhoon

Contested territory

US aid freeze stops crucial Pacific projects

This handout picture provided by NASA shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, 2025

'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA

Kenya's HIV patients victims of US aid freeze

Nearly 70 percent of Japan's power needs in 2023 were met by power plants burning coal, gas and oil

Slashing 60% emissions

Japan sets new 2035 emissions cut goal

A man cools off by taking bucket baths in the Guaratiba neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, which hit 44 degrees Celcius, a record in the city

Scorching samba season

Rio swelters in heatwave amid run-up to Carnival

Google has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to

'No right to name continental shelf'

Mexico says to sue Google if it insists on using 'Gulf of America'

The ancient cistern had been modified to include a jacuzzi-style swimming pool, sauna and massage rooms and a hammam

Part of Hilton's luxury Curio Collection

Turkey seals hotel spa illegally set up inside ancient cistern

The new museum will open in Piraeus, the port of ancient Athens

Greece to open museum of ancient undersea treasures

A hunter holds a captured iguana in Pingtung, Taiwan. The iguana population has exploded since the spikey-backed giant lizards were introduced from Central and South America more than 20 years ago as exotic pets

With slingshots

Taiwan bounty hunters kill invading iguanas as numbers soar

The centuries-old ceremony has enjoyed a revival in recent years

'Cider for everyone'

Tech weary Brits revive apple tree 'wassailing' tradition

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