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

Michiko Murata, who helps run the Tokyo Federation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, says many survivors from the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki chose to live in isolation

Japan's A-bomb survivors

From discrimination to a Nobel

The ICJ is undertaking historic hearings on climate change

'David v Goliath' battle at ICJ climate hearings

Wisdom (R), a Laysan Albatross that is at least 74 years old, is expecting again

Laysan Albatross

World's oldest known wild bird is expecting again, aged 74

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen (C) says the trade deal is needed in a world headed towards 'isolation and fragmentation'

Monumental moment

EU and S.America countries conclude divisive trade deal

The Lynetteholmen artificial island is being built to save Copenhagen from rising water levels

Rising sea levels

Copenhagen takes on its biggest climate threat -- water

The Emir of Kano parades through the streets of Kano during the Durbar Festival in Kano, northern Nigeria

Colourful parades

Eid festivities in north Nigeria make UNESCO heritage list

India and Pakistan are both suffocate every winter by a haze of pollution traversing their border

India, Pakistan share climate challenges but not solutions

Europe's new Vega-C rocket launched from French Guiana in its first takeoff since a failed flight two years ago

Two years after failed flight

Europe's Vega-C rocket launches satellite into orbit after delays

An engineer sets explosives in an unlicensed gold mine in Farallones National Park in Cali, Colombia, on November 28, 2024

With blasts and grit, Colombia fights gold mines run by crime gangs

A supermoon rises over Singapore on October 17, 2024

Artemis mission

NASA delays crewed lunar landing to 2027

The Vega-C rocket was grounded for two years while the nozzle of the Zefiro 40 rocket motor -- which caused the failure -- was redesigned

Time for lift-off?

Europe's troubled Vega-C rocket launches after delays

Iceland is one of just three countries that still allow whaling, along with Japan and Norway

Controversial move

Iceland authorises whale hunting until 2029

A large stretch of the northern California coast, including San Francisco Bay, was briefly under a tsunami warning on Thursday

Coast of Ferndale

Quake sparks brief tsunami warning in California

A supermoon rises over Singapore on October 17, 2024

Not going back yet

NASA delays crewed lunar landing to 2027

Details of the findings were published in leading science journal Nature

'Unrivaled accuracy and speed'

Google says AI weather model masters 15-day forecast

Most fires in the Amazon are set deliberately to clear land for farming

Millions of hectares burned around the world

'Exceptional' wildfires across Americas in 2024: EU monitor

Drought has emptied the Jablanicko artificial lake in Bosnia that was once a major tourist attraction for the town of Konjic

Catastrophic year

'Scary' drought empties one of Bosnia's largest lakes

Intense flooding in Europe alone caused around $10 billion in insured losses this year, Swiss Re said

Increasing toll

Natural disasters cause $310bn in economic losses in 2024: Swiss Re

The Proba-3 mission will emulate a solar eclipse to find out more about the Sun's mysterious outer atmosphere

Scientific experiment

India launches European 'artifical eclipse' satellites

The Proba-3 mission will emulate a solar eclipse to find out more about the Sun's mysterious outer atmosphere

Millimetrically precise satellites

European mission to imitate solar eclipse launches from India

Attieke has become a defining feature of Ivorian culture and a source of pride exported across the continent

Quintessential dish

Ivory Coast staple cassava meal gains UNESCO heritage status

Brazil's Minas Gerais state is the biggest production hub in South America for milk and cheese

'Preserving the knowledge of our people'

Brazil's Minas cheese gets added to UNESCO list

Dozens of world leaders are expected among guests as Notre Dame cathedral reopens in Paris

'Miracles' and controversies in Notre Dame's renaissance

After the watershed: A McDonald's burger

Battle against child obesity

UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

Isaacman, a Pennsylvania native, founded the business that became Shift4 Payments from his family's basement at just 16

Trump names billionaire private astronaut as next NASA chief

The ICJ is working on a new legal framework on how to tackle climate change

Countries 'evading responsibilities'?

Stick to current climate change laws, US tells top UN court

Pope Francis is presented a new fully electric popemobile at the Vatican

Pope Francis receives electric popemobile from Mercedes

Most people who vape and smoke at the same time just go back to cigarettes, the research found

Vaping while still smoking unlikely to help quitters: study

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