Drought-stricken farmers in the Australian state of Queensland will finally get some relief through an $11.2 million fund to finance a rescue package for them.
Researchers found that adult wild chimpanzees have developed a certain immunity against malaria parasites
Chile and Argentina have ordered an evacuation of the Andes region which borders the two South American countries because of the threat of an eruption from the Copahue Volcano.
The thick fog that covered Sydney for the second consecutive day on Wednesday has started to lift up, but air carriers continued to advise travelers of potential flight delays in the coming hours.
On the 23rd of May the Scottish government has given the go ahead to Edinburgh-based company Aquamarine Power to set up power generation plant in the form of "Wave Parks" which will generate electricity harnessing the inexhaustible tidal energy off the cost of the Western Isles.
Regional flights have been cancelled since Mount Pavlof in Alaska started to spew ash last week. Reports said the volcano, one of the most active in Alaska, spewed ash as high as 6.7 kilometres, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.
To indicate her disbelief in the concept of global warming, former Republican Party vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted a naughty remark in her Facebook account.
The Central Land Council of Australia's Northern Territory started on Wednesday to cull 10,000 wild horses by shooting the animals. The killing of the beasts, which the NT government defended as the humane response to an environmental crisis, made animal rights groups angry.
In a span of four hours from late morning, New Zealand experienced 1,018 lightning strikes, with most of them felt at the top of the North Island, MetService meteorologist Daniel Corbett said.
Weather experts said on Wednesday that the tornado that hit Oklahoma on May 21, Tuesday, was stronger than the atomic bomb that hit the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.
There is an ongoing big debate in Australia if starving cattle should be allowed access to national park for emergency feeding, with Queensland and animal rights group on one side and the federal government on the opposite side.
More Australians are installing photovoltaic cells on their roofs to capture the power of the sun and cut at the same time their power bills. In Perth, state-owned electricity retailer Synergy estimated 10 per cent of its 112,000 customers are now using solar systems.
The UNESCO warned Australia over the weekend that it would remove the Great Barrier Reef from its World Heritage Site list and place it in the In Danger list by February 2014.
Sexy, blonde bombshells like Pamela Anderson are not sufficient enticements for the 53-year-old bachelor president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, particularly if the subject matter is an ailing elephant.
UN warns of increasing climate change worries as the Arctic Sea's ice melted at record pace in 2012.
When Benigno Aquino III was proclaimed Philippine president in 2010, Filipinos were speculating who would be the country's first lady since the son of a former president was still a bachelor at 50.
Results of a study published by a blogger on Tuesday of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline oil spill in Arkansas said there are 30 chemicals found in the sample.
Weather patterns are bound to get hotter and drier for Australia this May.
Italy's Mt Etna erupted for the 13th time in 2013 on Saturday, creating another spectacular sky show seen for mile by surrounding towns.
Inasmuch as it has acknowledged it has become the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, China is deadset to nonetheless accelerate its actions to reverse its role to the decelerating state of the global weather phenomenon.
The Star Wars Saga became influential when it comes to science and technology, and now some of innovations which appeared inside the film slowly being seen for real. Androids, holograms, mechanical arms and force field are among being developed. Fifteen Star Wars technologies now embracing today's digital age.
India's federal government is planning to commission at least four studies to aid the country achieve its carbon emission reduction cuts as a prelude to the new global climate agreement expected to be signed in 2015.
China's financial centre Shanghai has confirmed it will start its carbon emissions trading this coming month of June. Although no specific date was provided, it made sure the system will be up and running before the month ends.
Charges of bribery and illegal entry await the 12 Chinese fishers on board a fishing vessel that ran aground in the Philippines' Tubbataha Reef Natural Park, the latest mishap in a span of just two months, even as park rangers admitted its monitoring radar was off at the time of the accident.
Cancer has become the leading cause of deaths in China's Beijing, and by 2020, from 2.5 million annually, the cancer-related deaths in the world's second-largest economy will balloon to 3 million per year.
China's Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone, will start its carbon emissions trading on June 17, its Mayor Qin Xu said in an interview with a local newspaper.
The water quality at South Australia's Adelaide beaches is now being questioned and might be subjected to quality testing following the surge of carcasses of dolphins, fish and penguins that have washed ashore in the recent days.
A very "fast-moving" band of rain has brought an unexpected large amount of rainfall, submerging Sydney's CBD in panic-gripping flash floods on Wednesday morning.
The numbers tell a story of China's growing air pollution menace. Claiming 1.2 million lives so far, the data from a new scientific study looking into the leading causes of death worldwide, China's latest figure accounted for 40 per cent of the world's total number of deaths.
An international team led by Australian scientists tracked the Antarctic blue whale, the world's biggest animal, through the mammal's songs, using acoustic tracking techniques.
