SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

For eight days, a fire has been burning at a waste mountain in Indonesia.The blaze at Jatiwaringin landfill, on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, has spread across more than 15 hectares, smothering the area in thick, toxic smoke...

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NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as...

Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto.On June 23, flight...

The number of U.S. infants who contracted botulism after eating recalled...

The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl can kill with one use. Yet a sizable percentage of adolescents aren’t aware of this danger.A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not see a great risk with...

Available for over a yearExtreme heat is becoming more common around the world. From Europe to India, record-breaking heatwaves are affecting millions of people - but what is all that heat actually doing to our bodies?Brain fog, poor sleep,...

In Evolution, an ambitious new five-part programme, broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham fleshes out the evolutionary backstories of five...

A heatwave in May set monthly temperature records across Europe; a heatwave in June became the hottest ever observed...

Arable farmers may soon be able to stop slugs eating their crops thanks to research by a Shropshire-based university and the work of "slug sleuth" farmers.Data collected by 28 "slug sleuths" has helped researchers from Harper Adams University find...