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

Indonesia has one of the world's highest rates of deforestation

Based on satellite images

Indonesia deforestation rises for third year running: NGO

Bengal tigers are endangered but there have been recent conservation successes in Nepal and India

Trio of rare tiger cubs spotted in Thai national park

Chana Walker (3rd L) poses with members of

Vaccine skepticism

MAHA Moms: Why RFK Jr's health agenda resonates with Americans

Parliament speaker Yael Parliament speaker Yael Braun-Pivet has said she was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago and was undergoing hormone therapy

France to reimburse new implants for breast cancer patients

Burning crop stubble sends air pollution in Thailand soaring in the early months of the year

Cancer-causing microparticles

Thailand orders stubble burning crackdown as pollution spikes

Former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum takes his seat as he arrives for a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing

Trump's point man for drilling agenda confirmed by Senate

The collision occurred in congested but tightly controlled airspace near Reagan National Airport, which had not seen a major aviation tragedy since the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attack

Perfect flying conditions

'Shouldn't have happened:' DC air collision stuns experts

A mushroom cloud forming after a July 1946 atomic bomb test by the US military on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean

'Not interested': Analysts sceptical about US, Russia nuclear talks

Surrounded by two rivers, a canal and marshes, several parts of Redon in Brittany have been sitting in water since Wednesday

After severe downpours

'I'm out of here': French town waits for flood to recede

The two North Sea oil and gas fields were originally approved by the previous Conservative government

Environmental impact

Scottish court rules against two new North Sea oil and gas fields

Shell's net profit reached $16.1 billion last year

Delivering 'more value with less emissions'

Shell annual profit drops to $16 bn as oil prices fall

A sample of Asteroid Bennu went on public display for the first time at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, in November 2023

High-carbon content and water

Life's 'basic building blocks' found in asteroid samples

Energy authorities say quick action is needed to fill the gap left by shuttered coal-fired power stations

Australia says reliance on coal-fired power drops to record low

Lee Zeldin, a former US congressman from New York, has committed to Trump's campaign pledges of boosting US energy dominance and rolling back environmental regulations enacted under former president Joe Biden

Trump's environment pick confirmed, drawing cheers from industry

An activist from Ocean Rebellion wore a medieval torture device outside London's High Court

Climate activists defend 'future generations', appeal lawyer says

Russia has been targeting Ukrainian cities in drone attacks almost daily since launching the invasion in early 2022

Overnight strike

Fatal Ukrainian drone barrage on Russia hits oil refinery

Experts say more records will be broken in the future as climate change disrupts weather patterns globally

All-time daily highs

'Less snow': warm January weather breaks records in Moscow

The Hughes Fire near Los Angeles on January 22, 2025

Attribution studies

The pioneering science linking climate to weather disasters

The Dead Sea has been dying for years

Former desert oasis

Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster', but no one can agree how to fix it

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft

Stranded in space

SpaceX mission to return US astronauts to happen 'soon': Trump

Michael Kovac's home, which is constructed with fire-resistant materials, survived the Los Angeles fires unscathed

Risk management

Fire-hardened house offers lessons on rebuilding Los Angeles

Projected to worsen

Climate change made ferocious LA wildfires more likely: study

On his first day back in the White House, Donald Trump announced the US withdrawal from the Paris accord

Key campaign pledge

UN confirms US demand to withdrawal from Paris climate deal

Moritz Rohner (left) & Maxime Buck (right)

Luxembourg’s young scientists triumph at Taiwan International Science Fair

Pledge to make Britain an 'AI superpower'

UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debate

This is the first confirmed case of H5N9 in poultry in the US

In a commercial duck farm

New strain of bird flu confirmed in US

The iceberg could threaten penguins as they forage to feed their young

'Twice the size of London'

Mega-iceberg drifts towards Antarctic penguin island

Nepali airlines have resumed rescue helicopter flights to the Everest region, an aviation industry official announced Tuesday, after weeks of suspension

Following weeks of suspension

Nepal resumes rescue helicopter flights to Mount Everest

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