ENVIRONMENT

An event scientists call the Great Dying, 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Era, killed off more than three-quarters of life forms on Earth.

A recent study has found that zircons, considered as the Earth’s “time capsules” being one of the oldest bits of minerals, are not as pure as geologists thought them to be and that research data drawn from them could be doubtful.

Authorities counted six people killed by tornadoes that struck Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina on Wednesday.

It is a common fact that people love looking at beautiful sceneries. Whether it's the simple sight of trees or the calming landscape of plants, people adore a green environment. Not only adore, but according to a new survey, people love greenery so much that they are even willing to pay more for a greener place to live in.

Maintenance workers have found a live carpet shark inside the seawater intake tank of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant in Binningup, according to Water Corporation, operator of the plant.

The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, known as “Alps under the ice, are the least understood tectonic feature on Earth, because they are completely hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. But scientists have finally discovered how the mountains, which are buried three km below the East Antartic Ice Sheet, were formed 250 million years ago.

About 6,000 to 8,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was actually a thriving ecosystem with rivers and abundant rainfall. Around 4,500 year ago, the region turned into the arid wasteland of today. Now a Dutch artist wants to turn this vast desert into a fertile oasis by conjuring ice from thin air.

Are made-from-scratch metropolises the answer to Asia's urban overpopulation?

If energy-efficiency policies, price reforms, new emissions-free infrastructures and increased renewable energy subsidies aren't firmly in place by 2017 then it might become too late to turn back the tide against the effects of climate change, according to the recently released World Energy Outlook by the IEA (International Energy Agency).

The near-meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March and the subsequent release of radioactive materials in Japan has led researchers to study its lingering impact on farming.

A national park and World Heritage Site in eastern Congo is offering a tour of an erupting volcano to watch it shoot lava 300 metres into the air.

Like its counterparts in the U.S., Australia's only manufacturer of solar panels is suffering from weak sales due to competition from cheap Chinese solar panel imports.

Doomsday 2012 scenarios include the eruption of supervolcano, but NASA said its geological records holds no clues that such supereruptions have happened during the Earth’s 4.5 billion-year lifetime.

It's one of the top concerns of people everywhere -- how do we grow our own food for superior nutrition and food sovereignty? How do we store an emergency food supply that can get us through a crisis when conventional food deliveries to grocery stores may be cut off?

Lock the Gate responds to Santos withdrawal from Spring Ridge

Airdrop is a a lo-tech air harvester aims to alleviate the effect of drought on agriculture.

Governments should find ways to raise $100 billion yearly for the Green Climate Fund, which was created in December last year, which will help countries cope with global warming.

Solar energy if harvested in space could meet global energy needs in as little as 30 years, according to a new study by the International Academy of Astronautics.

Glowing waves in California are attracting surfers and kayakers. What is causing this eerie, otherworldly phenomenon?

Qantas will start using biofuel to power its planes next year, the airline's CEO Alan Joyce announced during the Australian Airports Association convention in Brisbane on Monday.

The Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) are struggling to pull two stranded sperm whales in Tasmania's northwest coast back to the sea on Monday amid bad weather as 24 others died on a beach.

Although the Australian government is apparently battling an uphill fight over carbon tax, renewable energy and similar issues as the debate gets lively, trends support the Labor government position that the country should shift toward renewables and away from coal.

The Earth’s core, which is some 3,000km (1,900 miles) below sea level, will never be reached by scientists but a new experiment will attempt to unravel the mysterious processes at the center of the planet.

Residents in Thailand's Don Mueang district have defied the orders of authorities when they destroyed flood barriers made of sand bags to create a way for boats and access the flooded 20 housing estates.

Has the elusive Ogopogo, the Canadian version of Scotland's famous Loch Ness Monster, finally been caught on video?

Pollution has always been a part of man's life what with even the smallest of choices made. Now, pollution is a head ache that the world faces, and to some degree, is a neglected problem because of the changes associated to reducing it.There are a lot of negative effects that come with pollution, and according to a new study led by a group of researchers from the University of Maryland, there is another reason why pollution should be reduced.

One moment they're there and the next, they're completely gone. That's what researchers have discovered in some species of deep ocean squid and octopus that can switch from becoming transparent to becoming deep red to blend into their environment.

Amid continued debate over Australia's carbon tax, the country's greenhouse gas emission rose by 3.8 per cent in October, according to the Emissions Insights report of RepuTex carbon analytics for the last month.

A global climate change affecting Earth for about 150,000 years could have happened 56 million years ago due to the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate that was frozen under the seafloor.