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Why one of the world’s biggest earthquakes wasn’t followed by a monster tsunami 31 Jul 2025 - 03:58 pm
View of the waves in Vina del Mar, Chile on July 30, 2025. Photo by CRISTOBAL BASAURE / AFP
World's smallest snake makes big comeback 25 Jul 2025 - 11:16 pm
:This handout photo obtained on July 25, 2025, courtesy of Re:wild shows a Barbados threadsnake and a quarter in 2006. A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to have been
Tides could help predict when huge icebergs break loose: study 24 Jul 2025 - 03:43 pm
This handout image released by EYOS Expeditions on January 19, 2024, shows an aerial view of the A23a iceberg in the waters of The Southern Ocean off Antarctica on January 14. Photo by IAN STRACHAN / EYOS Expeditions / AFP
A million people sign French petition against bringing back bee-killing pesticide 20 Jul 2025 - 10:04 pm
This photograph taken on July 20, 2025 in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, shows a computer screen displaying the French National Assembly's website indicating the number of citizens who signed the petition against the Duplomb law, which surpassed today one million signatures. (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)
Intense heat waves pose rising health hazard expert 19 Jul 2025 - 04:13 pm
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Groundbreaking Vera Rubin Observatory reveals first images 23 Jun 2025 - 05:51 pm
This undated handout image released by NSF-DOE on June 20, 2025 shows another small section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster. Photo by HANDOUT / NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / AFP
More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic: study 20 Jun 2025 - 12:53 pm
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Arctic warming spurs growth of carbon-soaking peatlands 19 Jun 2025 - 04:56 pm
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Do you live in a ‘lonelygenic environment’? Being in nature may help 17 Jun 2025 - 07:59 pm
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Deforestation in S.Leone national park threatens chimps, humans alike 17 Jun 2025 - 11:32 am
Caretakers feed chimpanzees at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt / AFP)
New T-Rex ancestor discovered in drawers of Mongolian institute 11 Jun 2025 - 07:19 pm
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Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists 11 Jun 2025 - 08:10 am
This pictures shows the sea ice melting on April 23, 2024 near Ittoqqortoormiit, Eastern Greenland. (Photo by Olivier Morin / AFP)
Emperor penguin populations declining faster than expected 10 Jun 2025 - 01:01 pm
(Files) Penguins are seen on January 1, 2010 on the Antartic Peninsula. (Photo by Sarah Dawalibi / AFP)
Don't let deep sea become 'wild west', Guterres tells world leaders 09 Jun 2025 - 01:35 pm
(From L) UN general secretary Antonio Guterres, Costa Rica president Rodrigo Chaves and France's President Emmanuel Macron attend the opening session of the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) on June 9, 2025. (Photo by Laurent Cipriani / AFP)
Man who let snakes bite him 200 times spurs new antivenom hope 08 Jun 2025 - 10:15 am
This undated handout photograph obtained from Centivax on May 30, 2025, shows US' Tim Friede posing with a water cobra. (Photo by CENTIVAX / AFP)
Scientists puzzled by cosmic object sending signals to Earth every 44 minutes 07 Jun 2025 - 11:32 am
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Fighter pilot takes next giant step for India's space plans 05 Jun 2025 - 02:51 pm
This handout photograph taken on September 12, 2024 and released by private aerospace company Axiom Space shows assigned and backup Ax-4 crew members (L to 2nd R) Shubhanshu Shukla, Tibor Kapu, Gyula Cserenyi (partly obscured), Slawosz Uznanski, and Prasanth Nair reviewing materials during emergency fire training at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. (Photo by AXIOM SPACE / AFP)
World coming up short on promised marine sanctuaries 02 Jun 2025 - 08:02 am
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