ENVIRONMENT

Bushfire morning update across the region

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the UN's weather agency, has confirmed that the year 2013 had indeed been the world's sixth hottest year since record keeping began in 1850.

‘Snotty’ 1.5 metre monster was found lying by the shore

Waves as high as 60 feet that lashed along Britain's shorelines have washed out portions of a 150-year old railway line into the sea. Residents have been advised to brace for more rains and potential flooding into the weekend.

No more than 500 people so far have been able to watch new-born baby polar bear amid raw nature

Australians would not be too proud to hear that the land Down Under is considered the most unfriendly country to the environment around the globe.

U.S. researchers will be fishing California fish kelp off the waters of Malibu to test and determine the levels of radiation they have received from the radioactive material spewed into the ocean waters by the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Australian researchers believe to have found the world’s oldest rock dating 900 million years earlier

Can you imagine the tiny, eeeky, dirty rodent rat growing into the size of a sheep or worse a cow? A scientist from the UK said it is highly possible. We humans may ought to brace for the onslaught of rat armageddon.

After having been speculated as the making of aliens and even the effect of World War II bombs, biologists reveal the closest answer to the phenomenon and that it was caused by poison.

A team of nuclear experts from the United Kingdom is currently being lined up to help in the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan. They are engineers from Sellafield, where one of Britain's worst nuclear accident, occurred.

At least three people have died as heavy rains continued to hit central and southern Italy three days now. The heavy rains and floods have not only caused deaths but also power cuts, road obstructions and other damages.

UN plans to list the Great Barrier Reef as worlds “in danger” heritage sites

A day after Indonesian authorities allowed thousands of locals to return to their homes under the slopes of Mount Sinabung volcano on claims its rumblings had lessened, the inevitable happened. Officials of rescue teams tasked to find survivors from Saturday's eruption now race amidst the rubble, but don't have much high hopes.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority okayed plans to dump 3 million cubic metres of dredge spoil from the Abbott Point coal terminal expansion into the Great Barrier Reef. Environment Minister Greg Hunt approved the plan in January for the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation to dredge the harbour at Abbott Point.

Global warming is almost certainly attributed to humans, according to latest United Nations reports. It is also growing rapidly directly affecting climate change. NASA new data revealed scary image on how global warming changed in 63 years. How bad is the global warming today?

The entire state of Georgia, including Atlanta and four other Southeastern states in the U.S. now grope for normalcy after a debilitating snow storm cocooned the region on Tuesday.

Weather forecasters from Australia and the U.S. have warned an El Niño weather pattern may likely hit the country and parts of Asia this year. If this occurs, chances are farm growers will experience deficient rains this year.

Ben, the rat that the high-pitched boy Michael Jackson sang about would surely not be happy at the massive action being undertaken by the New Zealand government to eradicate the estimated 30 million rats living in the country.

The ribbon has been cut for the world's largest solar bridge found in London.

New Zealand has opened its first manufacturing plant, that will use recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste to create food grade PET packaging, on Wednesday .

TransCanada Corp has started operating on Wednesday the Texas leg of its controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Effective March 1, 2014, Beijing will no longer be approving proposals for new constructions of industrial plants, including oil refining, steel, cement and thermal power plants. Proposals for improvements of existing ones will likewise be barred.

"The Vampire Diaries" (TVD) star Ian Somerhalder is promoting The Plastic Bank which aims to use plastic waste as currency. Somerhalder is a well-known environmentalist who has set up his own foundation called the Ian Somerhalder Foundation (ISF) which is for the education and empowerment of people to protect the environment and the animals. He tweeted about The Plastic Bank on his official Twitter account to help spread the world about the newest social enterprise that not only targets pl...

China's dangerous air pollution isn't only confined to harm its residents. It has been found to be dangerously invoking more severe and frequent cyclones in the northwest Pacific.

Electricity suppliers have managed to restore all of Auckland's power supply on Wednesday after ex-tropical Cyclone June's powerful wild winds hit the area on Tuesday.

The polar vortex is back and Canada is frozen once again.

The owners of a reptile zoo in Canada are conveying a critical public appeal to raise funds for the survival of the zoo.

Brazilian native, 52-year-old Sandra Nabuco, got the shock of her life when a porcupine fell on her head, injuring her scalp with 200 sharp quills.