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Untitled (Human Mask), 2014

Environment

The wildfires and melting ice that science warned us about are here

News reports of long-predicted disasters are starting to sound familiar. Scientists, too, must carry on repeating calls for rapid cuts to carbon emissions

Leader

Humans

The Bhopal disaster 35 years on: Why the full truth remains unknown

Regulars

How to defend Earth from asteroids

How to defend Earth from asteroids

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oil spill

Environment

From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black

Regulars

A man on the remains of a bridge in Zimbabwe

Environment

Images show the devastation of Cyclone Idai

Regulars

Body bags filled with people who have lost their lives from the tsunami

Environment

Over 800 people have died after a massive tsunami hit Indonesia

News

Lifting an underwater robot out of the water

Technology

The underwater drones that hunt for oil spills beneath the waves

News

The rescue submarine designed by Elon Musk's engineers

Technology

Elon Musk’s submarine plan to rescue Thai cave boys deserves respect

Comment

Can trapped Thai boys be rescued by learning to scuba dive?

Health

Can trapped Thai boys be rescued by learning to scuba dive?

News

Guatemala volcano kills 75 as ash buries entire villages

Earth

Guatemala volcano kills 75 as ash buries entire villages

The Fuego volcano in Guatemala has exploded and spewed out molten rock and ash, killing at least 75 people in the country's most violent eruption for over a century

News

Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming

News

Earth

Hawaii’s erupting volcano may blast out ‘10-tonne cannonballs’

News

Earth

Humans may be to blame for a big earthquake in South Korea

News

Health

Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu

Culture