ENVIRONMENT

More Australians are taking public transportation to move around and biking to reach their destinations. The shift toward more environment-friendly and healthier transport options is one of the findings of the State of Australian Cities 2011 report released on Thursday.

Oil and containers that have fallen off the ill-fated cargo ship Rena have begun washing up more than 130 kilometres away on scenic East Cape beaches.

Newsweek releases its 2011 Green Rankings. What other U.S. companies are seriously green?

Northern Queensland received a record 112 millimetres of rain on Tuesday in just 13 hours from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. The rainfall broke the 1964 record of 86.6 mm.

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck Adelaide CBD, waking up residents at 2:22am Wednesday. The shallow quake was felt across the city for about five seconds, with the epicentre believed to be in the south eastern suburb of Upper Sturt, according to ABC news.

Controversy appears to await Queen Elizabeth even before she arrived on Wednesday night in Canberra. An animal rights group is threatening to hold a protest while Queensland flood victims feel slighted by the non-inclusion of their area in what could be the royal's last visit to Australia.

In 500 years some of man's greatest cities, like London and New York will be underwater. Unless the effects of global warming can be reversed, rising sea levels will continue to rise in the next 500 years and flood most cities on the coast.

Climate change and its menaces should be dealt with promptly to reduce possible threats to the well-being of people worldwide.

Yesterday, we published a groundbreaking article exposing the total media hoax that has been running in the mainstream media over the past week or so.

Researchers at the Ohio State University have discovered a new way to administer gene therapy agents without a needle.

If Iceland's Katla Volcano awakens from slumber and erupts, Icelanders and air travelers won't be the only ones affected. Eruptions from large volcanoes have wreaked havoc on Earth's ecosystem by lowering temperatures and thinning the ozone layer.

A new and strange phenomenon is baffling scientists. This is the case of the vanishing lakes in the Arctic which can have an impact on local wildlife and human populations, researchers said.

This letter appeared in the Washington Post on August 12, 2010. It was written to Dr. Michael Fox, who writes a regular column for the newspaper.

Over a thousand birds had been found dead since MV Rena's reef crash resulting in oil spill almost two weeks ago, as operations in oil removal have been stopped because media vessels are getting too close to the ship.

Melbourne-based sustainable fashion collective The Clothing Exchange has a big plan; the group wants to help fashion-conscious Australians find great styles while also raising awareness of the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

NASA scientists are flying a suite of instruments on two planes as part of the Operation IceBridge which is now on the third year of its critical study of the changing ice of Antartica.

Video proof of the Yeti finally emerged from the wilds of Siberia and presented to the international community after reports on Monday that the research team had stumbled on indisputable proof of the creature's existence.

Archaeologists have made a surprising discovery in a South African cave that seems to double the time humans have been artists.

Bacteria are so associated with pathogenic issues meaning disease-causing entities. It is so widespread, yet minute that it is easy to consider it as almost inanimate. In reality, bacteria is not associated only with diseases, but may be found on top of the mountains, deep down oceans, animal gut, man, frozen ancient rocks and ice of Antartica.

Iceland's Katla Volcano, which has a magma chamber that is ten times the size of Eyjafjallajokull, is showing signs of an imminent eruption.

There has been an outpouring of help from volunteers who showed their eagerness to help authorities in cleaning operations around the beaches of New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty.

Perth Zoo is bidding goodbye to an endangered Sumatran orangutan that it has bred since birth six years ago. The animal named Semeru will be reintroduced into the jungles of Indonesia's Sumatra island to repopulate the species now numbering only 6,300.

The MV Rena oil spill has been a major disaster. It is slowly killing New Zealand’s abundant natural beauty and the effects of oil spill will have a huge impact on marine creatures and birds. Recently, when everyone else is busy helping out in cleaning the thick oil covering the shore, scam artists are also busy calling concerned people.

The pet products industry is burgeoning, as 2011 figures released by the American Pet Products Association (APPA) show that Americans now spend more than $50 billion a year on food, supplies, and veterinarian care for their pets -- up nearly 300 percent since 1994.

Fifty people, mostly students, were injured while parts of Hindu temples crumbled during a magnitude 6 earthquake and an aftershock in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Bali, Indonesia Thursday and the 14-year-old Australian boy detained at the police headquarters in Denpasar, the island's capital, was unhurt.

A powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, causing some damages, though no tsunami alerts were raised. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 was centered 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Bali, striking 36 miles beneath the ocean floor.

NASA will be launching a new satellite that will help computers predict future environmental conditions and be able to produce more accurate weather forecasts and warnings.

A salvage crew finally managed to board the stricken MV Rena cargo ship that has already spilled oil and containers off the coast of New Zealand. The crew was checking the possibility of pumping oil from the ship before the vessel breaks up and sinks to the sea.