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Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a warning to Honshu residents for constant vigilance as Typhoon Roke blasted into the region late Wednesday.

A study on a human skull found in the Iwo Eleru cave in Nigeria, West Africa, shows that modern humans and older subspecies of human might have lived at the same era and even reproduced in the region. Modern humans are estimated to have first appeared in Africa 200,000 years ago. Some scientists are saying that older humans must have lingered and interacted with the new generation of human life.

Typhoon Roke swept through central and westerrn Japan Tuesday night with 144 kph (90 mph) winds, leaving one person dead, two others missing, and more than a million residents fleeing their homes, Japan's weather agency said.

Two Australian retirees invoke the 'father of modern science' in their fight against the hegemony of settled climate science. But their arguments - and the advisors supporting them - draw from a deep history of climate science denial and distortion.

Scientists in the UK, Spain, and Brazil are collaborating to find a way of producing valuable biomass-derived chemicals, materials and fuels from orange peel.

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Scientists discover a novel way of using microwaves to turn orange peels and other plant-based waste into plastic.

Scientists find a dozen unknown 'night frogs' in remote western India, but half may already be threatened with extinction.

Romanian authorities have seized 15 truckloads of imported Dutch tulips, turning back three of these to suppliers in the Netherlands because the flowers were allegedly contaminated with dangerous bacteria.

A trial started in Italy on Tuesday for seven scientists charged with manslaughter for apparently predicting that no major earthquake will hit L'Aquila one week after the deadly temblor struck the city in 2009.

The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and Austrade have launched two new publications designed to promote Australian green building capability to overseas governments, private sector developers, architects, engineers, specifiers and distributors of green building products.

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No one knows for sure but scientists think over six million tons of marine debris may be entering our ocean every year.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked northeastern India and Nepal Sunday killing at least 18 people and injuring 100 others.

The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service placed the entire south western region of the state under heightened alert in the coming days as 340 blazes swept across the Australian state.

After eight years, researchers confirmed that a species of dolphin in Victoria waters previously thought to be the bottlenose dolphin is a new species.

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Australians are feeling the negative effects of natural disaster s and calamities on the national economy.

Actor sends letter on PETA's behalf to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking officials to consider more humane alternatives.

At current ra6es of melting, the Arctic will be largely ice-free in the northern summer 40 years sooner than projected.

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When it's free to pollute, businesses keep polluting. But when it costs to pollute, big polluters make an effort to do things in a cleaner way.

Sharks are a little safer from human beings as the California Senate passed the ban on selling and possession of shark fins last week.

Australia's proposed emissions trading scheme has won praise from Beijing, where it will be the model for one of six Chinese pilot schemes to be introduced in 2013. Jiang Kejun, head of the Chinese government's energy and environmental policy agency, said pilot carbon trading schemes currently being researched would trial different designs based on schemes from Australia, Europe and California.

The Conservation Council says a surfing competition soon on Kangaroo Island could wipe out the entire breeding season for a vulnerable bird species in South Australia.

Marine scientists are struggling to explain a significant change in the migration pattern of whales visiting Victorian bays this year. Th Dolphin Research Institute is unsure what has caused the change in the whales' movement pattern.

Australian mining giant Rio Tinto got a new water deal in Pilbara. The company, which announced the deal Friday, secured the agreement in exchange for surrendering its entitlement from the Millstone aquifer.

The dugong will be spared by four Australian clans from their hunt for the next five years. The four traditional owner groups promised to temporarily stop the hunt after negotiations with the Queensland government.

The Fire and Emergency Service Authorities (FESA) reissued on Friday a bushfire alert for residents of Pippingarra in Port Hedland. Reports said the blaze that is razing between Marble Bar Road and Beebingara Creek has become out of control and unpredictable.