Climate change has been blamed to play a crucial role in the summer's heat wave. The Australian report released on March 4 suggested the country will experience a longer bushfire season caused by the continual rising of greenhouse gases. This means a hotter weather with increased risks of extreme fire in bushlands.
Jenille Cristy Maido
Mar 05, 2014
Nepal is again bracing for an influx of visitors wanting to trek up the challenging Mount Everest this spring, with an equal amount of potential thrash going to be left behind by the so-called nature lovers and protectors. To counter this, Nepal authorities on Monday announced adventurous climbers will now be required to bring eight kilograms (18 pounds) of thrash when they come down.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Mar 05, 2014
It was a blow to the lowest core. Three years after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, prosecutors in Japan decided to drop charges, essentially holding no one accountable for the disaster and its aftermath.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Mar 04, 2014
Canada's homeless are feeling more the brunt of the country's record-breaking cold weather and may have to cramp it out with others at local shelters at least until May.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Mar 04, 2014
Astronaut Leroy Chiao witnessed UFOs during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2005. The pioneering astronaut, who served as commander of the ISS nine years ago, finally speaks up on the UFO sighting that he experienced.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Mar 04, 2014
As Europe braces for potentially more devastating floods in the coming years, costs of damages will be shooting upward.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Mar 03, 2014
While Apple CEO Tim Cook may just be silently taking blows against the company and its profits, he apparently won't take it just seating down when critics pick on Apple's contributions to help save the environment and ease climate change and global warming.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Mar 03, 2014
For the first time in centuries, a family of wild beavers are spotted in England. This sighting is believed to be the first in 500 years. Three European beavers have been filmed cavorting on the River Otter in the east Devon.
Jenille Cristy Maido
Mar 01, 2014
NASA engineer Ted Garbeff answers questions from four-year-old Lucas Whiteley
Athena Yenko
Feb 28, 2014
Weather forecasters have warned Canadian citizens to brace for colder temperatures in March even as spring is fast approaching.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 28, 2014
Searching for another world that could sustain human life is NASA's continuous goal.
Jenille Cristy Maido
Feb 28, 2014
With the world now experiencing a slowing global warming, sceptics have started questioning the importance and necessity of the investments made into renewable energy by all member nations of planet Earth. But science bodies in the U.S. and UK assured the investments remain well in track as the warming hiatus is just temporary.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 28, 2014
NASA and its Kepler space telescope has discovered a whopping number of 715 new planets outside our own solar system.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 28, 2014
Krista Guarino is a 9-year-old little girl but her activities may challenge the guts of any adult.
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Feb 27, 2014
New Zealand scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have discovered a new crustacean species that may unlock the secrets of the deep sea. Previously unknown until now, the sand-hopper was found inside another deep sea organism from the Chatham Rise. This is the part of the ocean floor east of New Zealand.
Reissa Su
Feb 27, 2014
The government of Ontario in Canada is seeking to legalise a bill that would ban the importation as well as spread of the invasive Asian Carp species, a kind of fish that reproduces rapidly and have been found to have infested U.S. waterways throughout the South and Midwest.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 27, 2014
The fear of Flesh Eating Disease caused a public panic in the Philippines after a media report that a "mysterious flesh-eating disease" is spreading in Pangasinan, a town in the northern part of the country. What is flesh-eating disease, and why rumors of it can spark a national panic similar to an apocalyptic doom? Below are 10 facts that you should know about flesh-eating disease.
Jenille Cristy Maido
Feb 27, 2014
Pro-circumcision groups got a boost with the results of a survey made by AdamAndEve.com on female preference in terms of having the foreskin of their male partners cut or not.
Vittorio Hernandez
Feb 27, 2014
Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy continued to maintain the nuclear leak that came out from a nuclear waste plant in New Mexico poses no hazards to the health of nearby residents, even as levels of airborne radioactivity had been found to be "slightly elevated."
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 26, 2014
Canada, the U.S. and Denmark, three of the five-member Arctic nations, want to impose a fishing moratorium in the region as the ice starts to melt, and fast.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 26, 2014
HIV and hepatitis C are now treatable according to latest reports of two "miracle cure machines" developed by Egypt's armed forces. The machines can detect the disease for a minute and cure it for only 16 hours with 95 to 100 percent guarantee.
Ryan Inoyori
Feb 26, 2014
An expert observed that lice among teens became common after selfies got popular
Athena Yenko
Feb 26, 2014
Water samples collected off the coast of Canada had revealed traces of radionuclides linked with the radiation leak at the crippled Japanese nuclear plant Fukushima.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 26, 2014
With the smog enveloping Beijing already on its sixth consecutive day, the World Health Organisation said the current levels of air pollution in China has reached a crisis.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 26, 2014
If sea levels continue to rise as many climate scientists have predicted, island sanctuaries in the Pacific, including those in New Zealand could be submerged in water. According to a new study, the world's rarest animals could disappear along with the islands. Researchers in the University of Auckland said conservation projects on islands free from pests could be undone since many of the low-lying islands may be underwater when sea level rises by up to 2.3 metres by 2100.
Reissa Su
Feb 25, 2014
Australia could be the first country in the world to create a bionic brain
Athena Yenko
Feb 25, 2014
Astronomers from Spain on Tuesday released a video showing the impact of a giant meteorite crashing into moon's surface on September 2013.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 25, 2014
More fuel would likely be added again to the heated debate on whether to cut or not the foreskin of male infants. The trigger this time is a study that links the rise in number of sexually transmitted infection and drop in rates of childhood circumcision with an increase in rate of cancer of the penis.
Vittorio Hernandez
Feb 25, 2014
A new study has shown that particles released into the air during volcanic eruptions reflected sunlight, altering temperatures to drop. The recent spate of volcanic eruptions, particularly those in Indonesia, may have caused massive damages but on a global scale, such nature's wrath has done more good than harm to the world's rising mean temperatures.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Feb 24, 2014
Experts are looking into possibilities of AIDS cure from HIV-infected patients called "controllers" who contracted the virus but never got sick. The Immunity Project aims to create free HIV vaccine for global population based on the blood from HIV controllers.
Ryan Inoyori
Feb 24, 2014
