ENVIRONMENT

The lead contamination in Mount Isa was apparently caused by mining operations according to the results of a scientific study. Mining operations near the edge of the Queensland town runs day and night.

China may have become finally aggressive in combating its pollution-riddled air and environment, but it would take at least 18 years for the zooming super-power to realise the fruits of its labor and be finally able to eat it too.

Solar-Powerd Plane Flies Cross Country Making a Stop in Washington

Greenhouse gas emissions are dangerously rising at an alarming level. The abnormally fast growth rate could push the Earth beyond the safe limit in terms of average global temperature. The report is based on the study conducted by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Rising temperatures have profound effects to economic growth, agriculture, water and energy supply, and public health.

The Coal Terminal Action Group (CTAG) in New South Wales (NSW) and the Greens Party are accusing the NSW government of altering an environmental study on the impact of dust from coal trains.

When teaching children about sex, people use the birds and the bees as example to illustrate how reproduction takes place.However, bees may soon be no longer a good example because honey bee populations are under threat, prompting researchers at the Washington State University (WSU) to consider setting up a bee sperm bank as one solution.

According to a group of scientists in the University of Tokyo, Australia and other parts of the world will experience more floods because of climate change. The study was published in the Nature Climate Change journal today. Millions of people will be exposed to the risk of major floods which can result to loss of lives and property.

A Clean Energy Council report said that Australia produced a record 13 per cent higher renewable energy in 2012 from clean electricity sources such as hydro, wind and solar.

Thronged by the news media and well-wishers, Kabang, the hero dog from the Philippines, has been officially released on Monday from the veterinary medical teaching hospital at the University of California, Davis, and cleared to return to her family.

At least four people were declared dead, eight are still missing, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes as waters continue to rise in Central Europe. Most affected by the flooding are Austria, Czech Republic and Germany.

Crocodile attacks in Australia are on the rise, especially in the northern part of the country where an estimated 130,000 saltwater crocs are freely roaming and snapping, biting and eating animals and humans. The rise in population of croc is attributed to the hunting ban that wildlife authorities enforced in the early 1970s.

The Pacaya Volcano in Guatemala erupted over the weekend, spewing volcanic material more than 400 metres in the air and could disrupt air travel in Guatemala. The country's Institute of Vulcanology warned that the eruption could rise as high as 1,000 to 2,000 metres.

Mammoths are believed to have gone extinct about 10,000 years ago but scientists are considering bringing them back to the modern day world. This develops after the frozen remains of the Ice Age animal was found in the Arctic Ocean.

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.