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Israeli prime minister cautions against early conclusions when asked if there were any signs of Iranian involvement Benjamin Netanyahu has said it was too early to tell who was ultimately behind the apparent attempt to crash a ⁠Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, even as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations called the incident a “terror attack”, without apportioning blame. Danny Danon told Fox News on Wednesday night that Israel had “no doubt that it was a terror attack from a radical individual. We still cannot link it to a terror state or terror organisation, but for sure we know there was an intention to bring that plane down.” Continue reading...

The Orionid meteor shower peaks in October as Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet.

The state is the 10th to allow so-called balcony solar as officials grapple with soaring electricity bills.

Unsafe levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning biotoxin were recently detected

Newcastle fans are going all out in preparation for the Knights' first grand final appearance in 25 years this Sunday against the Sydney Roosters.

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Meet Lard, the runaway tortoise who became an internet "shellebrity" when a sheriff's deputy's body camera caught video of it being brought home after attempting the “world’s slowest escape.”

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%. Continue reading...

The trains may be running late, but the Western Slopes project is already attracting birds and insects on lands around the high-speed railway

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There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?

September 14–18, 2026 – MBARI’s Carbon Flux Ecology Team will study marine snow to better understand seasonal changes in ocean carbon cycling and monitor how El Niño affects carbon transport to the de...

The Marine Technology Society has named MBARI Outgoing President and CEO/Senior Scientist Chris Scholin the 2026 MTS Fellow. Presented at the society’s annual meeting today, this award recognizes his ...