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After the MV Rena oil spill, cleanup teams are currently working on removing the toxic wastes on the shore. Five hundred clean up personnel were out on the beaches on Thursday. They are clearing the coasts from Whangamata to Whakatane to assess the situation and check areas that need more attention.

Barring weather interruptions, Thursday's night sky will show the moon and planet Jupiter shining close to each other in a spectacular view at around 10:00 pm EDT from mid-northern latitudes.

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.

Treating cancer is BIG business in America -- in fact, it's a $200 billion a year business. Yet 98 percent of conventional cancer treatments not only FAIL miserably, but are also almost guaranteed to make cancer patients sicker.

Treating cancer is BIG business in America -- in fact, it's a $200 billion a year business. Yet 98 percent of conventional cancer treatments not only FAIL miserably, but are also almost guaranteed to make cancer patients sicker.

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.

The Iranian Space Agency (ISA) has failed to send a live monkey into space using the country's indigenous rocket.

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 four-billion old meteorite that originated near the surface of Mars points to the warm and wet temperature of the planet Mars in the past, at about 18 degrees Celcius or 64 degrees Farenheit.

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.

Astronomers are finally able to present a solution to a mystery: how the cosmic fog from the early universe cleared. The culprit? Massive stars that emitted high energy light.

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.

Want to set foot on Mars? Budding astronauts can get the chance to experience life on Mars by watching the new video NASA released which showcases 3 minutes of the Mars Rover Opportunity's long journey on the surface of Mars.

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.

After the UARS, the world is bracing for the next big satellite that is about to fall to the Earth, the 2.4 ton ROSAT X-ray telescope.

The $1.5 billion National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project will be launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by the end of the month.

The Australian Maritime and Safety Authority will join hands with Maritime New Zealand in clean-up efforts near Tauranga Harbor in what could be the most terrible maritime pollution debacle in the country’s history.

The situation of MV Rena oil spill seems to be at its worst on Wednesday. Massive oil spills have been observed on Tuesday and it was reported the ship already leaked out 130 to 350 tonnes of oil.

A 2.4-ton German satellite is expected to make its way back to Earth this month, with current forecasts set on Oct. 22 or 23. Scientists say the odds of someone getting hit by the satellite is at 1-in-2000.

Philippine Embassy officials are expected Thursday to talk to the captain and crew of MV Rena, the stricken cargo ship that is now massively spewing oil in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. MV Rena's captain, Filipino Mauro Balomanga, who was reportedly celebrating his 44th birthday at the time of the crash, has appeared in Tauranga District Court, and is now facing a charge under Section 65 of the Maritime Transport Act of operating a vessel, causing unnecessary danger or risk to a person or p...

The cargo ship that ran aground in the Bay of Plenty close to Tauranga in Auckland, New Zealand may be the cause of an extensive oil leakage as it was found with fissures in its hull and is now leaning in the high seas.

Nokia launches a new app that will allow people to easily unlock their phones by using their faces as their passwords. Facelock is a Symbian 3 based Nokia application that saves people from remembering their security codes because all they need is to get a close picture of themselves.

Man could have descended from a predatory marine fish that lived some 500 million years ago.

With the retirement of space shuttles this summer, NASA has depended on Russia to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station at the cost of $50 million per person. With the NASA-backed space taxis soon to see operations, this costly arrangement will soon be over.

An ancient lake that vanished 125,000 years ago could hold the clues to future changes in the climate and its effects on living organisms

The hypothesis of geologist Mark McMenamin about the existence of the mythical Kraken to explain the ichthyosaur bones found in Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park has left a few scientists skeptical.