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Fossil Fuel Emissions Fall Due to Iran War, Renewables, Research Finds

Varieties Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, November 9, 2026. (Reuters)

Fossil Fuel Emissions Fall Due to Iran War, Renewables, Research Finds

Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to fall slightly in 2026 due to the expansion of renewable energy and the oil price shock sparked by the Iran war,…

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 (LtoR) Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Olof Ramstroem, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, address a press conference to announce the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 8, 2025. (AFP)

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi Share Nobel Prize in Chemistry 

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal–organic frameworks. Hans…

Varieties This handout photo taken on October 7, 2025 and released by Gunma Prefectural Police via Jiji Press shows a CCTV camera footage of a bear walking inside a supermarket in Numata, Gunma prefecture. (AFP / Gunma Prefectural Police via Jiji Press)

Bear Injures Two in Japan Supermarket, Man Killed in Separate Attack 

An agitated bear roamed the aisles of a supermarket in central Japan, injuring two men and frightening shoppers while separately a man was found dead in a…

Varieties Scientists have found the oceans around New Zealand are warming, rising, and turning more acidic. (AFP)

Report: New Zealand’s Seas Warming Faster Than Global Average 

The seas around New Zealand are warming much faster than global averages, scientists said Wednesday in a new study warning how climate change could batter the…

Varieties Officials sign an agreement on April 13 to open a branch campus of the University of New Haven in Riyadh. (Saudi Ministry of Investment)

US University of New Haven to Open Branch Campus in Riyadh

The Saudi cabinet, chaired by Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, approved on Tuesday the establishment of a branch campus of the…

Varieties Tibetan firefighters rescue trekkers from Everest after they were stranded by a blizzard, in Tingri, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in this screen grab taken from video released on October 6, 2025.  Tibet Firefighting Department/Handout via REUTERS

Remaining Stranded Hikers Rescued Near Everest

Nearly 1,000 hikers and support personnel have returned to safety after heavy snowfall stranded them over the weekend on the Tibetan Plateau near Mount Everest…

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Varieties Riyadh Season 2025 to Open with Giant New York Balloons, Global Parade on Friday 

Riyadh Season 2025 to Open with Giant New York Balloons, Global Parade on Friday 

Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority (GEA) Turki Alalshikh unveiled details of the opening parade for Riyadh Season 2025 that will be…

Varieties The Los Angeles skyline is seen from a Baldwin Hills overlook, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Buildings are Turning to 'Ice Batteries' for Sustainable Air Conditioning

Every night some 74,000 gallons (280,000 liters) of water are frozen at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The hospital used to get all of its…

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Varieties John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden October 7, 2025. (Reuters)

Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to 3 Scientists Whose Work Advanced Quantum Technology 

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research on seemingly obscure quantum tunneling that is…

Varieties Fred Ramsdell of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, poses in an undated photograph. (Sonoma Biotherapeutics/Handout via Reuters)

Unreachable Nobel Winner Hiking ‘Off the Grid’ 

One of this year's Nobel winners is a leading medical researcher who also offers a shining example of work-life balance -- so much so that he might not know he…

Varieties California has banned loud TV commercials after complaints that the advertisements were often noisier than the programs they interrupted. Fred TANNEAU / AFP

California Bans Noisy TV Commercials

Noisy TV commercials were banned in California on Monday, with a new law that demands pitchmen turn the volume down. Viewers in the United States have long…

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Varieties The auction features a wide array of heritage, cultural, and social activities - SPA

Hail Camel Auction Attracts Over 160,000 Visitors

The Hail Camel Auction welcomed over 160,000 visitors from across the Kingdom, including enthusiasts and stakeholders from the camel sector. Attendees had…

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Varieties The moon will take on its familiar silvery-white color and remain brightly illuminated throughout the night until sunrise on Tuesday - (File photo / Reuters)

First Supermoon of 2025 to Light Up Skies Over Saudi Arabia and Arab World

Residents across the Kingdom and the Arab world will witness the first supermoon of the year this evening. The moon will appear larger and brighter than…

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Varieties The event is taking place in Riyadh from October 27 to 30 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center - SPA

KFSHRC to Showcase Innovations at Global Health Exhibition in Riyadh

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) is participating in the eighth edition of the Global Health Exhibition 2025, taking place in…

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Varieties A tranquilized Javan leopard lies inside a cage at a hotel in Bandung, West Java, on October 6, 2025, after wandering into the hotel premises. (AFP) 

Leopard Captured After Wandering into Indonesian Hotel 

A leopard was captured on Monday after it wandered into a hotel complex in one of Indonesia's most popular holiday destinations, sparking panic among guests. …

Varieties Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, October 6, 2025. (TT News Agency/Claudio Bresciani via Reuters)

Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi Win 2025 Nobel Medicine Prize 

Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning peripheral…

Varieties Tajik laborer Nematoullo Bassirov shows garbage he scooped from the stream running through his yard mountainous Central Asian country. STRINGER / AFP

Vast Reserves, but Little to Drink: Tajikistan's Water Struggles

To quench his thirst, Tajik laborer Nematoullo Bassirov must take a risk -- drawing water from the stream running through his yard and hoping he won't fall…

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Varieties FILE PHOTO: Mountaineers and trekkers head towards the Everest base camp from Lobuche in the Solukhumbu district, also known as the Everest region, Nepal April 12, 2025. REUTERS/Purnima Shrestha/File Photo

Hundreds of Trekkers on Tibetan Side of Mount Everest Rescued

Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet had been guided to safety by rescuers, Chinese state media reported…

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Varieties The findings reveal how wildfire smoke can drive the formation of secondary particulate matter in addition to being a direct source of particulate matter—a major component of urban air pollution - SPA

KAUST Joint International Study Shows Sunlight Intensifies Wildfire Smoke Pollution

Wildfire smoke causes more air pollution than current atmospheric models can predict. A new study published in the journal Science Advances has revealed the…

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Varieties File photo of trekkers being rescued in a helicopter a day after an avalanche hit Mount Annapurna trail. (Phurba Ongel Sherpa/AP)

Avalanche on Slovenia Mountain Kills 1 Hiker, Leaves 2 Missing

Rescue teams in Slovenia found the body of one of three mountaineers from neighboring Croatia who were swept away Sunday in an avalanche, police said. The…

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Varieties The system enhances the blind people's privacy and confidence while navigating different spaces - SPA

Northern Borders University, King Salman Center Develop Smart Aid for the Blind

A research team from Northern Borders University, in partnership with the King Salman Center for Disability Research, has developed an intelligent system that…

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Varieties This handout photo taken and released on October 5, 2025 by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) shows a female pet lion, which was involved in an attack on a child, chained to a kitchen table before being confiscated by authorities, in western Kanchanaburi province. (Photo by Handout / Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) / AFP)

Boy Hospitalized in Thailand after Attack by Escaped Lion

A lion kept at a private home in Thailand got loose and attacked a young boy, leaving him in hospital, the wildlife department said Sunday. The lion attacked…

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Varieties In this photo released by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC), rescued cheetah cubs are seen in cages in Berbera, Somaliland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, on Sep. 28, 2025. (MoECC via AP)

Cheetah Cubs Rescued from Illegal Trade

Eleven cheetah cubs were rescued from illegal trade in Somaliland in what environmental experts described as “one of the largest confiscations of the species.”…

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Varieties FILE PHOTO: Saturn's ocean-bearing moon Enceladus taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2016. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Handout via REUTERS  IAL USE ONLY./File Photo

Organic Molecules Found in Saturn’s Moons Raises Prospect of Life Beyond Solar System

From tentative evidence of habitable planets to the eyebrow-raising suggestion an interstellar comet might not be what it seems, the possibility of life beyond…

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Varieties Wolf-dog hybrids are rarer than first thought. Even the theory about how dogs originated from a relative of the grey wolf (pictured here) has shifted over time. DENIS LOVROVIC / AFP/File

First Wolf-dog Hybrid Confirmed in Greece

A prominent Greek wildlife group on Friday said it had confirmed the first case of a wolf-dog hybrid in the north of the country. The Callisto group -- which…

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