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Food Industry Pushes Back on WHO Guidance for Products with Added Color, Sweeteners

Varieties Around 11 million deaths a year are linked to unhealthy diets, according to the agency, based on data from a global study. (Getty Images)

Food Industry Pushes Back on WHO Guidance for Products with Added Color, Sweeteners

Governments should consider regulating foods that include added colors, flavors or sweeteners designed to make the product more appealing to consumers,…

Varieties Dozens of Pakistani farmers are suing German firms RWE and Heidelberg Materials in a rare bid to make big polluters pay damages for climate impacts. Aamir QURESHI / AFP

Pakistan Farmers in Long Fight to Make German Firms Pay for Flood Damage

In a Pakistani village nestled in rice fields, Abdul Hafeez Khoso remembers the vast industrial zones he saw in Germany when he visited to file a pioneering…

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Varieties A tourist holds an umbrella to shelter from the sun while walking on a hot day in Tokyo on July 15, 2026. (AFP)

This Year Set to Be One of Four Hottest on Record, UN Report Says

This year is ‌on track to be one of the four hottest on record, driven by a powerful El Niño and perpetuating a warming streak of more than a decade, a UN…

Varieties A white-tailed eagle over the Isle of Mull in Scotland. (Natural Resources Wales)

Reintroduction of White-Tailed Eagles Puts Seabird Colonies at Risk of Wipeout

White-tailed eagles reintroduced into England and Wales imperil endangered seabird populations and risk wiping out some colonies, The Guardian reported quoting…

Varieties Residents extend a supply hose to fill a barrel with clean water from a tanker truck in Kavling Bakau Serip, amid local water shortages linked to data center developments in Batam. ANDARU / AFP

Can't Cook or Shower: Indonesians Take Aim at Data Centers

Cooking and bathing became difficult when taps ran dry in Batam, an Indonesian island where residents are protesting as data centers spring up to power the…

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Varieties A cloned female mouse inside a laboratory at the University of Yamanashi in Yamanashi, Japan, in this undated photograph released on March 24, 2026. Teruhiko Wakayama/Handout via REUTERS

Mouse Study Shows Repeated Cloning Causes Grave Genetic Mutations

Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave…

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Varieties Astronomers have suggested 45 exoplanets could support life (Getty)

45 Exoplanets Most Likely to Support Life

Astronomers have identified 45 planets that could be the best places to search for alien life. Scientists have found more than 6,000 exoplanets, or worlds…

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Varieties The book now has a new home at the Bairnsdale Library in Australia (Facebook)

Library Book Borrowed from Dudley in the UK Handed in Australia

It is not often that mystery surrounds the return of a library book. And at first glance, the return of one on loan from a library in the West Midlands would…

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Varieties NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman speaks during the rollout of NASA's next-generation moon rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, January 17, 2026. (Reuters)

NASA to Build $20 Bn Moon Base, Pause Orbital Lunar Station Plans

NASA's chief on Tuesday said the US space agency will invest $20 billion to develop a base on the Moon, while suspending its plans to create the lunar orbital…

Varieties 23 March 2026, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Timmendorf: Experts from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW) and firefighters free a whale stranded on the Baltic Sea coast off Niendorf. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/dpa

Rescuers Try to Refloat Stranded Humpback Whale in Germany’s Baltic Sea

Rescue teams in northern Germany are working to refloat a humpback whale stranded in shallow water in the Baltic Sea. Experts gathered Tuesday morning on…

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Varieties  Commuters make their way amid smog in Lahore on November 2, 2024. (AFP)

Pakistan Ranked Most Polluted Country in 2025, Data Shows

Pakistan was ranked the world's smoggiest ‌country in 2025, with concentrations of hazardous small particles known as PM2.5 up to 13 times higher than the…

Varieties FILE PHOTO: Principle vet Kate Russell takes blood from Po the cat during a Vets Now clinic in Farnham, southern England, October 27, 2013. REUTERS/Darren Staples

UK Pet Owners to Get Price Comparison Tools, Fee Caps Under New Vet Services Rules

Britain's veterinary services will be required to implement price transparency measures, cap prescription fees, while large chains will have to disclose their…

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Varieties A technician works in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, during a press visit in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 16, 2016. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

On the Road with Antiprotons: CERN Runs Delicate Test on Transporting Ultrasensitive Antimatter

Scientists in Geneva are taking some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive. If this so-called…

Varieties Wounds are seen on the muzzle of a capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) under care at the Center for Wildlife Animal Recovery of Estacio de Sa University in the Vargem Pequena neighborhood, in the southwest zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 23, 2026. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)

8 Arrested in Brazil for 'Brutal' Attack on Capybara

Rio de Janeiro police said Monday they had arrested eight people for brutally beating a capybara -- the world's largest rodent whose chill demeanor has…

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Varieties The Coronation Chair with the Stone of Scone at Westminster Abbey (Getty)

Stone of Scone Fragments Made into Ring

One of the “hidden” fragments of the Stone of Scone was set into a ring that was lost or stolen shortly afterwards, it has emerged. The ancient stone was…

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Varieties Bad weather reduced visits to the beaches - Alexandria Governorate.

High Prices and Weather Affect Egyptians’ Outings During Eid al-Fitr

Ahmed Bahgat, a father in his late twenties, was surprised when taking his family to a movie at Cinema El Tahrir in the Dokki district. He found that evening…

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Varieties Vertical gardens rely on growing plants vertically (University of Surrey).

Plant-Based System for Treating 'Sick Building Syndrome'

A Spanish study has demonstrated the effectiveness of active vertical gardens, also known as green walls, in improving air quality inside buildings and…

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Varieties The saltiness and bitterness of the water confirmed that it had been isolated for an incredibly long time. (Shutterstock)

Geologists Discover Earth’s Oldest Water Beneath Canadian Mine

Geologists have unearthed the world’s oldest known water, hidden deep beneath the surface of a Canadian mine for around 2.64 billion years. The find, which…

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Varieties FILE PHOTO: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with a Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 22, 2026. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

Russian Spacecraft Antenna Problem Forces Manual Docking with ISS

An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has a problem with an antenna so it will have to be manually docked when it reaches the International Space Station (ISS),…

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Varieties A volunteer holds a bottle of water as a wildfire burns in the village of Vati, on the island of Rhodes, Greece, July 26, 2023. REUTERS/Nicolas Economou/File photo

UN: Planet Trapped Record Heat in 2025

The amount of heat trapped by the Earth reached record levels in 2025, with the consequences of such warming feared to last for thousands of years, the UN…

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Varieties 30 May 2016. BIALOWIEZA, POLAND. REUTERS/KACPER PEMPEL

A Herd Stop: Train Kills 3 Rare Bison in Poland

Three wild European bison died on Sunday morning after being hit by a train in Poland's vast UNESCO-listed Bialowieza Forest in the east, the local police told…

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Varieties The Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica) is one of the world's most remarkable travelers, but its population has plunged 95 percent in four decades due to a complex mix of environmental changes across multiple countries. Luke Seitz / Cornell Lab of Ornithology/AFP

Can Nations Save the Shorebird that Flies 30,000 km a Year?

Chasing an endless summer, one shorebird species undertakes a grueling annual journey from the Arctic to the tip of South America and back -- a feat…

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Varieties A message in a bottle (Shutterstock) 

Dog Finds Canadian Message in a Bottle on Aberdeenshire Beach

A message in a bottle dropped from a boat off Canada has been found washed up in the north-east of Scotland, according to BBC. The short letter, written in…

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Varieties Bison statues cast in bronze are on permanent display outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington. The Washington Monument is in the background. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

America's Official Mammal, the Bison, Gets Bronze Tribute for Country's 250th Birthday

The national mammal of the United States is getting in on America's 250th birthday celebration. Three bison statues cast in bronze have taken up a…

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Varieties An in-game screenshot of Minecraft is seen in this undated publicity image. (Reuters)

Minecraft to Come to Life with UK Theme Park

Britain is to welcome the world's first Minecraft roller-coaster and attractions with the opening of "Minecraft World" in 2027, the studio behind the video…

Varieties Antonia Voicu laughs before the SEEN Anonymous Seamstresses Gala, an event organised by the Down Plus Bucharest, an NGO supporting youngsters with Down Syndrome and other intellectual disabilities, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, ahead of the World Down Syndrome Day, on March 21. (AP)

Models with Down Syndrome in Romania Strike a Pose for World Down Syndrome Day

Dozens of models with Down syndrome strutted down a catwalk at a fashion show in Romania’s capital for an evening celebrating style, “atypical beauty” and…

Varieties An aerial view taken with a drone shows the Schneefernerkopf ski lift prior to its demolition at the Zugspitze ski resort near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany on March 20, 2026. (Photo by Philipp Guelland / AFP)

Vanishing Glacier on Germany's Highest Peak Prompts Ski Lift Demolition

Vanishing glaciers atop Germany's highest mountain prompted the demolition of a ski lift Friday, as global warming reshapes the Alps. A ski slope that for…

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Varieties NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are seen at Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on March 20, 2026. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP)

NASA Hauls Repaired Moon Rocket from Hangar Back to Pad for Early April Launch

For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around…

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Varieties Beinao-1, a semi-invasive brain-machine interface system also known as the NeuCyber Matrix BMI system, is displayed during a media briefing as part of an organised media tour to the Chinese Institute for Brain Research in Beijing, China March 19, 2026. REUTERS/Florence Lo

Beijing-backed Brain Chip Firm Says it is 3 years behind Musk's Neuralink

Leading Chinese state-backed brain-computer interface (BCI) startup NeuCyber Neurotech said its most cutting-edge product is still three years behind Elon Musk…

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