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

Residents in the Chilean capital Santiago are delighted to see the Mapocho river thriving

'In perfect condition'

Chile's once-dirty Mapocho river enjoys new lease on life

The structure in Schipkau, eastern Germany will become the world's tallest wind turbine

The world's tallest

Giant wind turbine rises in Germany amid far-right headwinds

Commercial deep-sea mining seeks to harvest potato-sized "polymetallic nodules" containing cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese

Blizzard of litigation

Trump-backed push for deep-sea mining 'unlawful': international regulator to AFP

Historic El Nino events have correlated with major droughts, floods and record-breaking global temperatures.

Every El Nino is different

Something coming: what scientists know about a potential 'super' El Nino

Coral reefs globally are struggling with back-to-back bleaching events

Long-term prospects dire for coral

'Dread': coral scientists fear bleaching El Nino could bring

States from Arizona to Wyoming rely on Rocky Mountain snowfall for their water supply, but the region had record-breaking high temperatures last winter, causing historically low levels of snowpack.

Set to be one of worst ever in American West

With record-low snow, Colorado preps for wildfire onslaught

US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on May 21, 2026.

Slammed 'ridiculous' rules

Trump eases curbs on planet-warming gases used in refrigerants

Late spring viewing

Five simple ways to explore the night sky with your children

The tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has taken the lead in pressing for climate change accountability

Operationalising ICJ ruling

UN members reinforce nations' climate change obligations

A man transports air coolers on a cart along a street on a hot summer day in the Indian city of Varanasi

'Longer, stronger, and more frequent'

India issues heatwave warnings as fear of El Nino looms

Years of record-breaking heat have become increasingly common in the UK

'Increased ambition' needed

UK climate advisers urge setting maximum working temperature

Cognitive and physical exercise

GERO project helps older people stay active

Such vast journeys by humpback whales -- which can grow up to 17 metres long -- are exceedingly rare

'Exceedingly rare'

Humpback whales make record swims between Australia and Brazil

Eels are a popular food in Japan but have proven stubbornly unwilling to breed in captivity without intervention

Easing pressure on endangered fish

Japan to sell eels bred in captivity in 'world first'

'Global solidarity remains extremely important', said Helen Clark

'Not there yet'

Ebola, hantavirus show world's risk preparedness lagging: pandemic expert

For some fishermen on the Congo River, selling the plastic they trawl from the water has become more profitable than fishing

More waste than fish

DR Congo fishermen resort to trawling plastic waste

Russia's 2022 invasion has wrought yet more suffering on Ukraine's birdlife

War-scarred landscapes

'Wiped out': Ukraine's bird lovers long for peaceful skies

The new 'bridges' are key to helping the monkeys navigate a fragmented habitat crisscrossed by busy roads where the animals are often killed

'We have to coexist'

Sky bridges, citizen science protect endangered Malaysia monkeys

The IPCC's latest report, finalised in 2023, estimates global temperatures rising by between 3.3C and 5.7C by 2100 compared to pre-industrial levels

New climate report

Lost in Trump's climate boast: best-case scenario abandoned

Argentine scientists have set traps to catch rodents that may be carriers of the hantavirus strain that killed three cruise ship passengers

Argentine researchers collect rodents for hantavirus tests

Ziel mir keng! – Science Check

Weight-loss jabs: game-changer or nonsense?

Alabatrosses and other seabirds would have to travel longer distances to find suitable homes in a warmer planet, a study said

Forced to fly further to survive

Seabird habitats shrink as ocean heats up: study

A Vega-C rocket launches with the SMILE spacecraft on a mission to study Earth's 'invisible armour'

Observations of Earth's magnetic field

Europe-China spacecraft launches to study Earth's 'invisible armour'

US beekeeper Roy Funkhouser (r) has a fraction of the beehives he should have due to catastrophic losses in recent years, not least by varroa mites

'Real struggle'

As bee population collapses, US apiarists fear research cuts

More than 40% of adults affected

Luxembourg scientists investigate growing impact of pollen and dust

File photo of a man with the Sentinelese tribe aiming his bow and arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter as it flies over North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands

'Eyes on, hands off'

Encroaching world threatens India's last 'uncontacted' tribe

Local residents sit o Old Shastri Nagaram Beach on the outskirts of Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island

Great Nicobar Island

India's strategic $9 bn megaport plan for pristine island

The first person to die from a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship had spent 48 hours in Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego, leading to speculation he contracted it there

In Tierra del Fuego, a hunt for the rodent carrier of hantavirus

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