ENVIRONMENT

Pope Francis is reportedly issuing a papal encyclical on climate change to instruct Catholics to act on environmental issues.

An elephant seal pup crawled up to the lap of a hotel manager and slept on her for about two hours.

Typhoon Haiyan is reported to have shifted a humongous boulder onto a beach in the Philippines.

A group of theoretical physicists have a published a study which explains the concept time and its movement through the universe.

The British government had made plans to make a tunnel underneath the Stonehenge but now an important discovery seems to have disturbed the plan.

The archaeological community made a huge leap forward this year in identifying the actual genetic make up of human beings in ancient eras.

Spent radioactive fuel in reactor number 4 of the Fukushima nuclear power plant had been cleared.

In recent years, the Arctic region has been absorbing more and more of the sun's radioactive energy, causing the rapid melting of ice in the region.

There's a looming storm for Canada this week.

A saltwater crocodile attacked the shell of a dead Olive Ridley turtle and then devoured its meat.

Scientists have uncovered the meaning behind the mooing of cows and they say that the cows made distinct calls based on the distance between them and their young ones.

The new generation technologies in solar power are aligned with the advancements in nano technology.

The tilapia fish species are said to be mouth brooders because of which they had a high successful breeding rate.

A skeleton was found during excavations in Newmarket which found a skeleton of a horse that could either be of Doctor Syntax or a royal horse.

A volcano on the Fogo Island has destroyed two villages namely Portela and Bangeira.

An ancient cemetery had more than a million mummified bodies with almost 1,700 already found.

The best meteor shower called the Gemini's was hidden from the view of those in the east coast of Australia because of an upper trough.

Nearly four thousand years after his death, an ancient British warrior's tale is now told to the world.

The white rhino species is perilously close to facing extinction, with only five of its kind alive.

Scent molecules from the giant triton can be synthesized to create a compound that could prevent crown-of-thorns starfish from raiding the world’s largest coral reef system.

Learning more about the origins of cereal crop production will help planters increase and improve their farm yield.

Naturally occurring toxins on the nectar and pollen can harm bees and other pollinators and affect their behaviour and reproduction.

Some scientists believe that life on planet earth could be very short lived. Rapid extinction of various flora and fauna may only increase with time.

Scientists in Turkey have discovered a new species of fish belonging to the salmonoid family.

A research shows that overgrazing by kangaroos could endanger the striped legless lizard.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Maryland conducted a study that proposes that the recent draught in California is not the result of global warming. They instead, blame it on natural and random climactic variations.

Willow trees can be used in restoring balance in soils that have been contaminated by high concentrations of metals.

A report by the Climate Council has stated that the outlook of the bushfire season had been upgraded to "major."

A coffin of a woman named Denit-ast or Dent-ast was found with strange and amateurish decorations on the funeral bed.