This is some of the research astronomers say they missed out on as a protest blocked the road to Hawaii's tallest mountain, one of the world's premier sites for studying the skies. Astronomers said Friday they will attempt to resume observations, but they have already lost four weeks of viewing — and in some cases, they won't be able to make up the missed research. Astronomers across 11...

A million people were evacuated from their homes and thousands of flights were cancelled across major airports in...

Germany said Saturday it would suspend Brazilian aid aimed at helping protect the Amazon forest in light of data that showed deforestation had surged since President Jair Bolsonaro took office. "Brazilian government policies in the Amazon raise doubts about continued, sustained declines in the rate of deforestation," Environment Minister Svenja Schulze told the television news show Tagesspiegel....

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, on a visit to a German anti-coal protest camp, questioned whether the country should continue to use the fuel to generate power for another 20 years as the government plans. Thunberg, the most visible spokeswoman of the Fridays for Future movement of students striking to demand climate action, was talking to reporters at the western German Hambach...

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, on a visit to a German anti-coal protest camp, questioned whether the country should continue to use the fuel to generate power for another 20 years as the government plans. Thunberg, the most visible spokeswoman of the Fridays for Future movement of students striking to demand climate action, was talking to reporters at the western German Hambach...

Germany's forests — long a source of pride and national identity — are feeling the heat. Officials say droughts, wildfires and hungry beetles destroyed 110,000 hectares (270,000 acres) of forest in Germany in 2018 and the damage this year could be even worse. The sight of bare trees has stoked debate about the impact of climate change and what measures this heavily industrialized nation...

For decades, archaeologists, historians and DNA experts, have investigated a Connecticut vampire. Now they have new information, a name: John...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The announcement that 11 billion tons dropped off  the Greenland Ice Sheet in one day turned out to be a made-for-television example of the effects of climate change.  Dramatic videos of water pouring off the glaciers went viral.  But apart from the occasional spectacular image, it’s hard to focus the attention of the news media on the Greenland Ice Sheet.  And...

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Yuri Malenchenko was on the ISS in his spacesuit with another astronaut playing the wedding march on a keyboard as he wed his wife, who was on...

Russia's nuclear agency on Saturday said an explosion at an Arctic missile testing site had killed five of its staff after the military had put the toll at two. In a statement, Rosatom said the accident killed five of its staff and injured three, who suffered burns and other injuries. The statement came after authorities in a nearby city said the accident had caused a spike in radiation levels...

At least 13 people were killed and 16 others missing in a landslide after Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China, national television reported Saturday. "Torrential rains caused a landslide on a mountain that blocked a river below," it said. More than a million people were evacuated from their homes ahead of the storm, which slammed into eastern China early Saturday, bringing torrential rain and...

Chinese startup LinkSpace on Saturday completed its third test of a reusable rocket in five months, stepping up the pace in China's race to develop a technology key to cheap space launches in an expected global boom in satellite deployment. LinkSpace's RLV-T5 rocket blasted off in a desert in western Qinghai province at 0230 GMT. It flew as high as 300 meters (984 feet) before returning to the...

Why is Ebola back? The virus has killed nearly 2,000 people in the last year Why is Ebola back? The virus has killed nearly 2,000 in a year Despite a new vaccine meant to wipe out Ebola, the deadly disease is on the rise again. Adrian Blomfield reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo, currently in the grip of the second largest outbreak on record. Pictures by Simon Townsley This article...

Scouring the shores of the Thames, Lara Maiklem uncovers pieces of the city’s forgotten past ‘All you need are wellies, a bag for finds and sunscreen. I’ll bring the latex gloves.’ Lara Maiklem’s email, sent a week before our encounter, has done its work. I arrive on the Greenwich foreshore to meet the author and amateur historian well oiled, substantially booted and slightly worried....

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Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the Philippines two years into the adventure, leaving Spaniard Juan Sebastian Elcano to complete the three-year trip. "Magellan is still an inspiration 500 years on," said Fabien Cousteau, a French filmmaker and...