ENVIRONMENT

From an initial July impact forecast, the Australia's Bureau of Meteorology announced the El Niño weather phenomenon seemed to lag behind and might probably develop by September, even as it saw a deceleration in Pacific Ocean warming associated with the weather pattern.

A tornado has ripped through the central Ontario community of Angus on Tuesday after even as the area was in the midst of a severe thunderstorm alert.

Oklahoma meteorologist Danielle Dozier of local KOCO-TV just got on air and was about to deliver her live morning weather report when the walls of the studio around her rattled from an earthquake.

Europe's most active volcano once more showed her might on Sunday by spewing ash and lava, causing the closure of an airport in Sicily, Italy, 3 News reports.

Natal, the Brazilian host city of this year's 2014 World Cup, has issued a flood alert after it received a whopping amount of water from two days of non-stop rains.

Twin quakes of almost 6-magnitude struck Japan's eastern coast near Fukushima early Monday.

Residents in Perth and the South West are being advised to take necessary precautions as the area could receive as much as 15-25mm of rain by midday today. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Severe Weather warning following a cold front that could bring in strong winds and high tides.

Ice-penetrating radar technology inserted aboard Nasa survey flights has discovered frozen forms of ice blocks at the very bottom of the Greenland ice sheet which are as tall as city skyscrapers and as wide as the island of Manhattan.

Big Head, the Loggerhead Turtle, proved over the weekend that it is a likely good replacement for Paul, the Octopus, as the oracle of the World Cup.

A U.S. teenager caught a giant fish in Canada while he was fishing with his father.

As the world awaits for the potential impacts of a looming El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, countries around the Indonesian archipelago have been advised to brace for more devastating Indian Ocean weather events that could bring more and severe drought, bushfires and floods to affected countries, Australia included.

While most of the dangerous gases that had built up in the atmosphere over the years may have come from countries in the Earth's northern hemisphere, it is the countries however in the south that will bear the impact of the planet's global warming and climate change, a report released by ratings agency Standard & Poor's said.

Model and marine conservationist Hannah Fraser danced with man-eating tiger sharks to show her protest against worldwide killing of the species, and to prove that sharks could not be that "scary".

Australia on Wednesday lowered its 2014-15 wheat production forecast by one per cent due to the looming El Niño weather phenomenon.

Students falling in love and having sex with their teachers is quite commonplace. However, a BBC documentary to be shown next week features a male dolphin named Peter falling in love with his human female teacher who was tasked to teach the mammal to speak English.

A new study released by researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has said the release of carbon dioxide emissions by the world's oceans is being heightened up by the continued rise of global warming temperatures.

U.S.-based nuclear waste management company Kurion Inc announced on Monday it had been chosen by Tokyo Electric Power to treat the contaminated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

China has literally moved to tearing down and flattening 700 mountains to provide land for its growing population.

Global warming this time has affected even the bodies of the dead from World War II. The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands disclosed over the weekend that rising sea water levels have washed the remains of Japanese World War II soldiers from their graves.

Northern Territory Police appears to have found on Sunday the 62-year-old Australian man who was grabbed by a crocodile while cruising with his family along Kakadu National Park.

A crocodile snatched an Australian man from a boat at the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory on Saturday afternoon.

A U.N. report released on Thursday said the continuing rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system is posing irreversible damages to the coral reefs in the world's smaller islands.

New research of scientists from China's space weather laboratory has disclosed that the planet Earth's global warming status is influenced and exacerbated by the sun's solar activities.

Three new gases have been discovered by scientists to be present up there in the atmosphere that could exacerbate the rate of the world's global warming status.

Residents in Latin America, especially Chile, Mexico and Guatemala, have been advised to brace for more rains even as weather bureau said tropical storm Boris has weakened.

The Invasive Species Council was alarmed on the recent discovery of cane toad's cousin sitting in a dog's water bowl in the backyard of a resident in Sunbury, Melbourne.

Alaska's volcano - Pavlof- is one of the most active and currently showing lots of seismic activity and erupting which began late Friday, May 30th. Experts record the continuous stream and ash plume to have reached 24,000 feet above sea level with satellite imaging showing a plume extending more than 80 km southeast of the volcano, reports The USGS.

The number of seismic activity or earthquakes above magnitude 4.0 have breached the records in Los Angeles, U.S., baffling scientists. Could the area be in for a major one soon similar to the 1994 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake that killed 57 and injured more than 8,700?

There may be a correlation between the amount of light in one's room and one's weight, said the Institute of Cancer Research in London. Researchers believe that sleep disruption and circadian rhythms by exposure to light at night (LAN) may be linked to the rise in obesity.