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Snowfall in Lousiville, Kentucky forced dozens of flight cancellations

Dangerous conditions

Central US pummeled by snow, ice as major storm heads east

Russia's emergencies ministries has been organising beach clean-ups since last month

Dozens of marine mammals found dead after Russian oil tanker spill

In this handout photo courtesy of Blue Origin the New Glenn rocket is seen during a hot-fire test at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 27, 2024

Commercial space race

Bezos's Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week

A thermometer shows a temperature of 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 F) in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 17, 2024

25.02 degrees Celsius

Brazil says 2024 was its hottest year on record

US President Joe Bidenis allocating more than $300 million to the nation's bird flu response

US announces $306 mn in new bird flu funding

Turbines like these off the coast of Wales are expected to help wind power become Britain's largest source of electricity in 2025

Record high renewables

UK, Germany electricity cleanest on record in 2024

Already last month, Russia released photos of clean-up work on a beach in Krasnodarskiy Kray, east of Crimea

Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239

Oil from Russian tanker spill reaches Sevastopol

Despite the arrival of 11 chicks last year and five new adults, the keepers can recognise the Humboldt penguins individually

From goats to gorillas

Breeding success: London zoo counts its animals one-by-one

In July, heavy rains caused by Typhoon Gaemi flooded villages in China's Hunan province

Leading greenhouse emitter

China says 2024 was its hottest year on record

Storm clouds over the Indonesian capital Jakarta in July last year. The country endured the hottest year on record in 2024

Indonesia says 2024 was hottest year on record

Turbines like these off the north coast of Wales are expected to help wind power become UK’s single-largest source of electricity in 2025

Low fossil fuel output

UK electricity cleanest on record in 2024: study

Thick smog blankets Hanoi, obscuring buildings and leaving nine million residents choking on toxic air

Vietnam's capital blanketed by toxic smog

A conservationist inspects a sapling planted at Chile's largest botanical gardens following a devastating fire

Disaster-hit Chilean park sows seeds of fire resistance

A handout photograph from Oxford University's Museum of Natural History shows the excavation team working on one of some 200 dinosaur footprints found at a quarry north of Oxford last summer

One big pile of prints

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site uncovered

A strontium atomic clock, pictured in a lab at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States

Unprecedented time measuring

Secret lab developing UK's first quantum clock: defence ministry

Thanks to government incentives, electric cars have surged in Oslo and across Norway

Close to full electric

Electric cars took 89% of Norway market in 2024

Persimmons are popular in Taiwan but changing weather and an ageing population are posing a threat to the century-old industry

Blooming hard: Taiwan's persimmon growers struggle

Thick plumes of smoke at times clouded major cities including Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo last year

42 percent more than 2023

Brazil's Amazon saw highest number of fires in 17 years: agency

The WHO has repeatedly called on China to offer more information on Covid-19's origins

Responding to allegations

China says shared Covid information 'without holding anything back'

Annual average of 24.9°C

Taiwan says 2024 was hottest year on record

A US man receives a coronavirus vaccine

No progress without transparency

Five years on, WHO urges China to share Covid origins data

Francois Bayrou said Mayotte should be rebuilt within two years

'Mayotte standing'

French premier promises concrete aid for cyclone-hit Mayotte

Massive waves are pummeling the coasts of Ecuador and Peru

'An extreme event'

Three dead as massive waves slam Peru, Ecuador and Chile

A colorized transmission electron micrograph of avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (blue), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells

Alarming experts

New bird flu mutation discovered in US as cat infections cause alarm

The disappearance of lush forests has made slums more visible

Scenes of desolation

Mayotte faces environment, biodiversity crisis after cyclone

Many countries were hit by record-breaking floods, cyclones and other climate-related disasters in 2024

Devastating effects

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024

Australian firefighters say they are fighting to control a bushfire racing through a national park that has consumed an area the size of Singapore

74,000 hectares

Australian bushfire burns area the size of Singapore

Brazilian officials say acid-filled chemical tankers that plunged into the river in a bridge collapse remain intact

Contaminated river

Acid risk contained in deadly Brazil bridge collapse

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