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Tsunami threat has passed for nearby islands after earthquake struck near Vanuatu’s capital Porta Vila.

Around this time of year, pet owners across the country are scrambling to finalise holiday care arrangements.

After reversing the ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration permits, New Zealand’s coalition government is now considering whether to share the risks of exploration with the fossil fuel industry.

Optimistic advocates for AI say this environmentally costly technology will become more sustainable with time. We can use AI more efficiently, and explore less energy-intensive designs inspired by the human brain. We can build data centres more sustainably, using wood or low-carbon concrete and steel. The heat from the data…

Officials fear hundreds of people could be dead as a result of the cyclone, which ravaged France’s poorest department.

It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, these creatures. But even now I find it difficult to resist

Lightning struck deep in the central Idaho mountains on July 24, 2024, igniting the Wapiti Fire that burned across 129,063 acres around Stanley, Idaho – a place known for its scenic vistas and idyllic rural landscape.

Imagine you are standing in front of a multimillion-pound building in the centre of the French city, Lyon. It radiates warmth and history with its rammed earth structural walls. Two hundred miles away, a small house in the Beaucastel winery, Provence, shares a similar texture and aesthetic.

Stretch of river in West Yorkshire was first to get bathing status in 2020 but has since recorded poor water quality

Blacka Moor, South Yorkshire: With its antler-like structure and aniseed whiff, this exquisite fungus, called meadow coral, is luxuriating in all its strangeness

These holidays, planet Earth looks likely to be hotter than ever before. Research found that in 2024, global temperatures temporarily rose 1.5°C higher than the average from 1850 to 1900 – a pre-industrial time when the first global temperatures were recorded.