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

Chinese startup DeepSeek was founded by a hedgefund whizz-kid who believes AI can change the world

Shaking up Wall Street

DeepSeek, Chinese AI startup roiling US tech giants

DeepSeek is raising questions about how much energy AI needs

Shaking Wall Street

DeepSeek breakthrough raises AI energy questions

Bushfires have torn through thousands of acres in Little Desert National Park in the Australian state of Victoria

Thousands of acres burnt

Fast-moving fires torch national parks in southeast Australia

World Expo organisers in Osaka have struggled with slow ticket sales and public concern over the construction budget

A bid to be more visitor-friendly

Japan's Osaka bans street smoking ahead of Expo 2025

A man crosses the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia in August 2008

Official stance

CIA says Covid 'more likely' to have leaked from lab

Windmills make up about 10 percent of US energy production, with the largest output in the Republican-led states of Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma

'Big, ugly windmills'

Trump casts chill over US wind energy sector

Vehicles riding over a road built using recycled plastic waste in Pokhara

Rubbish roads: Nepal explores paving with plastic

German aerospace engineer Rudiger Koch jumps into the sea to celebrate setting a new world record -- 120 days living underwater

Aerospace engineer

German man sets world record living for 120 days underwater

Giant panda Qing Bao eats bamboo during her public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington

Pandas, like Trump, are back in Washington

Ireland and Scotland were put on high alert ahead of Storm Eowyn

Power cuts and transport chaos as Storm Eowyn hits Ireland and UK

Air pollution in the Thai capital forced the closure of more than 350 schools Friday -- around a hundred more than the previous day

World's seventh-most polluted major city

Bangkok air pollution forces 352 schools to close

Japan's much-loved 'tonkatsu' pork cutlets come with a mound of freshly shredded cabbage, but a surge in the vegetable's price has prompted some chefs to skimp on servings

Squeezed by inflation

Climate change cooks up Japanese 'cabbage shock'

A pilot flies next to another aircraft from Thailand's Royal Rainmaking department spraying icy water in the air outside Bangkok in a bid to reduce pollution

Thailand's fight against air pollution

The Roman tower is located in the basement of a supermarket that does not advertise the treasure

Ancient semi-circular structure

Shoppers unaware as Roman tower lurks under French supermarket

The aerial firefight has been crucial in the battle to tame huge wildfires that roared through Los Angeles

Never before seen

'Nerve-racking': Inside the aerial battle to tame Los Angeles fires

Smoke belches from the Dora power station, one of several plants that residents blame for poor air quality in Baghdad

Worse than smoking

Smog chokes Baghdad as oil-fired factories belch out smoke

This handout photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) shows a delta smelt fish on November 8, 2010 in California

Despite expert knowledge

Red herring: Why Trump wrongly blames a fish for LA wildfires

Two enormous fires have devastated parts of Los Angeles, killing more than two dozen people

Fix Our Forests Act

US lawmakers advance forest management bill as fires scorch LA

The Hughes Fire grew rapidly, but was coming under control after an all-night firefight

No end in sight

Overnight firefight tames new California blaze

Trump has favoured oil and gas over wind power

Trump wants to 'drill, baby, drill'

US falling behind on wind power, think tank warns

The forever chemical had been linked to health problems and birth defects

Forever chemicals

Drinking water in many French cities contaminated: study

Agents wearing protective jumpsuits take part in cleaning works in a street covered in mud in Paiporta on November 13

Spain govt to cover full cost of repairing flood-damaged buildings

An aerial view shows a solar park being built by 'F&S solar service' company near Erftstadt, western Germany

Solar power surpasses coal in EU for first time

Both countries are 'exploiting loopholes to allow logging in forests that should be safeguarded', said the WWF

Criticism unfounded?

WWF blasts Sweden, Finland over logging practices

Kenya was among the first countries to roll out malaria vaccines

Africa malaria jab rollout delivers 10 million doses

The World Health Organization has been repeatedly criticised by President Donald Trump who now plans to withdraw the US from the UN agency

Executive order

African Union 'dismayed' US withdrawing from WHO

US President Donald Trump seeks to increase US oil production under his administration -- such as at this refinery in Detroit, Michigan -- but he may face challenges outside of his control

Back to business

Trump push to 'drill, baby, drill' may hit industry roadblock

A US court has ruled that while African elephants might be 'cognitively, psychologically, or socially sophisticated' they are not people and not covered by the principle of habeas corpus

Unlawfully imprisoned?

Elephants are not people, US judges say

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