Science & Environment
Russia, West step up energy war as risk of nuclear disaster haunts Ukraine
As UN inspectors sought to avert a nuclear disaster on Ukraine’s frontline, the West and Russia wounded each other’s economies, with Moscow ...U.N. inspectors assess damage to Ukraine nuclear plant in high-stakes visit
United Nations experts who crossed into Russian-held territory in Ukraine to assess the safety of Europe’s biggest nuclear energy plant are seeking ...U.N. team presses on with Ukrainian nuclear plant visit despite fighting
U.N. nuclear experts set out from the city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday to visit a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant in Ukraine’s south ...NASA delays debut Artemis flight of new moon rocket after engine cooling issue
An engine-cooling problem forced NASA on Monday to postpone for at least four days the debut test launch of the colossal new ...NASA’s next-generation megarocket set for debut test launch to moon
NASA’s colossal next-generation rocketship was set for its long-awaited debut launch on Monday on an uncrewed, six-week test flight around the moon ...Pakistan floods force tens of thousands from homes overnight
Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in northern Pakistan on Saturday after a fast-rising river destroyed a major bridge, as ...Portugal’s drought prompts water price rise, street-cleaning ban
Facing an unprecedented drought, Portugal’s government recommended 43 municipalities temporarily increase water prices for their biggest consumers and suspend street-cleaning and watering ...Death toll from floods in Afghanistan rises above 180
Flooding in Afghanistan this month killed more than 180 people, the Taliban said on Thursday, appealing to the international community for help. ...Flooding devastates rural areas south of Sudan’s capital
After annual rains that have left dozens dead in Sudan, thousands of people in the farming town of Al Managil and surrounding ...Rains pounding New Zealand ease but more forced from homes
Torrential rains eased on Saturday in New Zealand’s northern and central regions after four days of downpours forced hundreds of people from ...














