Growing up in Tahiti, Anna-Bella Failloux saw firsthand the threat posed by mosquitoes: Nearly a third of adults on the picturesque island once had swollen limbs from elephantiasis caused by their bites.
Britain will ban children aged under 16 from using a range of social media apps, including Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday.
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook part of central Indonesia's Sulawesi island Tuesday, causing scattered damage and rattling residents of a city devastated by a quake and tsunami eight years ago.
[Our Ocean Kenya] Mombasa -- The Government of Kenya will officially open the 11th Our Ocean Conference (OOC11) tomorrow, convening global leaders, scientists, investors, innovators, civil society organisations, youth leaders, and ocean advocates in Mombasa to accelerate
Visitors queued to explore French artist JR's new immersive installation, which transforms Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, into a giant cave open around the clock.
Open until 28 June, JR’s art installation, by the master of XXL photography, immerses Parisian passers-by in a vast cave.
[CAF] A disciplined and courageous Cape Verde produced one of the biggest results in their football history by holding European champions Spain to a goalless draw in their opening Group H match at the FIFA World Cup 2026 in Atlanta on Monday.
[CAF] When Cape Verde walk onto the pitch for their first-ever FIFA World Cup match against Spain in Atlanta, Steven Moreira's thoughts will not immediately be on the reigning European champions standing across from him.
[CAF] Egypt produced a spirited display to secure a deserved 1-1 draw against FIFA World Cup contenders Belgium in Seattle on Monday in a match that the former African champions were unlucky not to collect maximum points.
Commissioner Jessika Roswall writes that restoring ecosystems can unlock billions in sustainable growth and resource security at the same time as mitigating severe climate risks. After this year’s EU Green Week in Brussels, one message stands out above all others: investing in
The Africa Finance Corporation has backed a $7bn expansion plan of Dangote’s fertiliser business with a $600m investment, aiming to triple Nigeria’s urea output and build the world’s largest production platform.
[allAfrica] Mombasa -- Fish are often described as one of Africa's most overlooked solutions to food insecurity, yet millions of people depend on fisheries for nutrition, jobs, and livelihoods. As marine ecosystems face growing threats from pollution, climate change, and
[allAfrica] Mombasa -- For years, the story of coral reefs has been written as dying, doomed, gone. Coral reefs have been framed as ecosystems in irreversible decline, threatened by rising ocean temperatures, bleaching events, and ecological collapse. If global temperatures
Iran outmanoeuvred US President Donald Trump "like a violin" in negotiations, walking away with far better terms after sensing his desperation for a deal to end the war, former National Security Adviser John Bolton told Euronews.
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Halmahera, the largest island in Indonesia’s North Maluku province, is unlikely to be familiar to most readers outside Southeast Asia. Yet this forested island, located between Sulawesi and New Guinea, has become one of the most important places in the global energy transition.
A picture in a new school textbook had covered up the naked torso of the famous figurine with dark shading.
"There are probably more hardworking American-value individuals in the liberal hellhole of New York City than exist in the entire states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Mississippi combined"
By Steve Holland, Parisa Hafezi and Maayan Lubell EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France/DUBAI/JERUSALEM, June 16 (Reuters) - Doubts swirled around the U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East as shippers said it could take weeks for confidence to return after any reopening of
BBC Studios Kids & Family has unveiled a three-way partnership with U.K. production company Wheel in Motion and Japan’s Kadokawa Corporation to develop a live-action television series based on Eiko Kadono’s novel “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” marking the property’s first
The public health expert and former federal health official talks about the politicization of science
29 million Europeans use drugs every year, and the market has an estimated €31 billion value. The European Council has released a new framework to completely change how the EU handles this enormous problem, from enforcement to public health.
Thinktank says decoupling electricity from gas prices has also helped shield Spain from hikes caused by Iran war Spanish households save €10 a month on electricity bills because of wind turbines and solar panels installed in the last five years, a report has found. Typical
Solemn silence during the national anthem and howls of joy after the goals: in Tehran, Iranians followed their team's first steps on American soil in the World Cup with curiosity through the night. Most in the Iranian capital were asleep when the match against New Zealand
The university president and biomedical scientist talks about the hope and doubt in U.S. science today
The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention talks about threats to U.S. science and ways they can be stopped
The Internet pioneer talks about tenure and publications and shares what needs to change for U.S. science to forge ahead
The Nobel laureate on how resilience can help young scientists succeed and why governmental support of science should be bipartisan
The Nobel laureate shares how artificial intelligence will change the way science is done
The federal health official on the need to keep scientists from leaving the U.S.
The mathematician and former NFL player on the benefits of having a broad background for young people who are interested in science
The well-regarded meteorologist shares advice for young scientists to become as good at communication as they are at discovery
The University of California, Berkeley, materials scientist on the hope the next generation of scientists represents
The machine-learning guru discusses how politics is undermining U.S. science
The CRISPR expert on why immigration should be considered an economic and national security asset for science
The Stanford University artificial intelligence leader on why basic science needs more support
The university president on narrowing the time between discovery and societal impact
The computational neuroscientist on how scientists themselves need to better advocate for government support
On Thursday 7 May 2026, DG TAXUD hosted the second in a series of webinars on the implementation of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The webinar aimed to help producers in a third country understand the CBAM methodology and turn their decarbonisation efforts
The energy entrepreneur talks about the state of science innovation in the U.S.
The noted virologist talks about how to rebuild the U.S. scientific enterprise