Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing known as CRISPR-Cas9.

The international transport sector, specifically aviation and shipping, continues to be identified as one of the fastest-growing sources of emissions, with hard-to-abate challenges.

The Global Methane Pledge, launched at COP26, aims to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030.

The EUDR aims to ban the import of commodities like coffee, cocoa, soy, palm oil, and beef into the EU if they are produced on land that was deforested after December 2020.

The WWF Living Planet Report 2024 revealed a catastrophic 73% average decline in monitored wildlife populations between 1970 and 2020.

WMO reports have consistently highlighted that Europe is the fastest-warming continent, heating up at twice the global average rate since the 1980s.

The WMO confirmed that 2024 broke previous temperature records, becoming the hottest year in history due to a combination of human-induced climate change and the El Niño weather pattern.

Hera is designed to inspect the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos to study the aftermath of the impact caused by NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission.

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) partnered with Firefly Aerospace to deliver the Rashid 2 rover to the lunar surface.

During the fifth flight test, SpaceX successfully caught the Super Heavy booster using the 'Mechazilla' launch tower arms, a historic feat for reusable rocket technology.