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

Tourists at Nara Park in Japan are only allowed to feed the deer special rice crackers, but the animals are increasingly eating rubbish by accident

Dedicated litter-pickers

The squad saving deer from tourist trash in Japan's Nara

Smoke rises above the mountains near El Bolson, in the Patagonian province of Rio Negro, Argentina, on February 4, 2025

Drought and intense heat

After Patagonia, Argentina's northern prairies consumed by fires

Beavers have long been championed by environmentalists for their ability to protect against flooding

Nature's great engineers

Dam fine: beavers save Czech treasury $1 million

These are anxious times in US farms where President Donald Trump's attempt at a federal funding freeze has left many subsidized projects in limbo

Demanding answers

US farmers say Trump let them down with spending freeze

A carnivorous sponge photographed during an expedition to the NE Pacific abyss and found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Considering withdrawing support

New Zealand rethinks opposition to deep-sea mining

A NATO Baltic Sea patrol mission tracks a cargo ship on the horizon near Karlskrona, Sweden

Major disaster looms

Russia's 'shadow fleet' brings 'high risk' of oil spill

The Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama desert is home to the world's most powerful telescope

The driest place on earth

Could a climate megaproject cloud Chile's unparalleled views of universe?

Countries party to the Paris Agreement have been consistently late in submitting climate targets to the United Nations

Disappointing reality

Almost all nations miss UN deadline for new climate targets

The island is among the most remote of France's possessions

Forced evacuation

Almost half of remote French island hit by wildfire: official

Scientists have been researching whether a shift to cleaner shipping fuels could have helped increase global warming

Did cuts to shipping emissions spur more global warming?

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer sits with singer Beverley Knight and Richard Angell, from the Terrence Higgins Trust, as he takes an HIV test to raise awareness for National HIV Testing Week, inside 10 Downing Street

'Self-sampling' kits

UK's Starmer urges world leaders to test for HIV

Not too cold for exercise: a woman in Tehran jogs amid the snow

Across 10 provinces

Iranian schools and offices shut as cold snap bites

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 79, aspires to make Brazil a leader in the fight against global warming, but has fiercely defended oil exploration as key to the growth of Latin America's biggest economy

Amping up pressure

Lula pushes mega-oil project as Brazil prepares to host COP30

The trend toward paper drinking straws has long irritated Trump, as well as many consumers

Trump slams paper straws, vows 'back to plastic'

The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage base in Norway that has been visited by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Risky technology

UK MPs warn billions spent on carbon capture may hit bills

Council workers restrict access to the village of Oia on Santorini

Affecting thousands of residents

Greek PM insists no danger from Santorini quake swarm

A stream on the outskirts of Buenos Aires turned blood red on Thursday, causing anxiety among residents who blamed it on pollution.

Nearby factory possible culprit

A stream turns blood red in Argentina, residents blame pollution

Amsterdam to ban polluting pleasure boats in April

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has labelled Chinese Agarwood as 'vulnerable'

Valuable agarwood

Hong Kong scientists fight to save fragrant incense trees

Correa do Lago, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry's secretary for environment, said it did not matter if countries took their time to announce their new targets, but they needed to be 'as ambitious as possible'

Paris climate accord

COP30 president urges most 'ambitious' emissions targets possible

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell delivers a statement at Rio Branco Institute in Brasilia

Fighting global warming in nations' self-interest: UN climate chief

Scientists say their research optimises taste and nutritional quality

It’s all about the ‘compromise temperature’

Scientists claim to have cracked how to cook the perfect egg

Scientists say global warming is making extreme weather events like droughts, wildfires and floods more frequent and intense

Defying expectations

January smashes heat record, surprising scientists

Putin sacks space agency chief after setbacks

Changing planning rolls

UK to quicken rollout of mini-nuclear reactors

Indonesia is one of the world's top emitters

After US withdrawal

Indonesia backs climate deals after envoy's Paris skepticism

'With this executive order the war on women's sports is over,' US President Donald Trump says

Eyeing IOC regulations next

Trump signs order barring trans athletes from women's sports

Argentine President Javier Milei called Covid-19 lockdowns 'one of the most bizarre crimes against humanity'

Citing similar complaints

Following Trump, Argentina quits World Health Organization

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