SCIENCE

New Zealand is rich in dust infused with iron which researchers said can help explain how the Earth cooled after the last Ice Age. Scientists travelled to New Zealand's Southern Alps in an expedition to gather dust samples and study their link to Earth's last Ice Age which happened approximately 22,000 years ago.

No reverse in the Earth's global warming conditions is expected as this scenario will continue for centuries, according to the UN World Meteorological Organisation.

Robin Beaman, an Australian marine geologist said that it is bad timing for Australia to lead the search for MH370

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that Australia will search MH370 until there is no more hope

A dramatic video captured by a fisherman in Canada shows a pod of killer whales hunting sea lions. The YouTube video has gone viral as the footage recorded seems to be quite a rare one.

In Southern Alberta, Sam Martine reported about the UFO sighting she experienced with her daughter on Sunday night, March 16. The mother-daughter duo recounted in the CBCNews report about the two bright lights that they spotted in the sky at around 11 p.m. close to their Nanton home.

Climate cientists have predicted that Australia will get hotter in the latest UN climate change report. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change draft report has a significant impact to Australia. According to the draft, Australia is exposed to potential environmental risks.

The flash flood that hit Sydney on Monday afternoon has killed a man while two others were rushed to the hospital after being struck by lightning.

A group of 20 researchers continued to hunt on Sunday for the meteorite believed to have fallen in the fields of St. Thomas in Ontario, Canada.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt violates Australia’s World Heritage Obligations court hears

Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains a mystery for the world. International search and rescue operation continues to delve into the search zone of MH370 to locate the missing Boeing 777. The plane vanished on March 8, 2014 and even after 15 days of search efforts it continues to be missing. The latest update is that a French satellite has spotted some floating objects in the southern areas of Indian Ocean which are said to be 'potential objects' of the MH370 flight.

In a poignant display of love between a zoo keeper and animals, a photo of a giraffe kissing the terminally ill zoo employee has gone viral.

Jack Purcell, a Chevron Island resident, noticed a multi-coloured UFO floating over the city of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia last Thursday night, March 13. The witness captured a video footage of the UFO sighting experience and shared it on YouTube for others to see the colourful UFO looking like an alien spacecraft moving across the sky.

Victoria will start this month, March, a two-year trial of commercial processing of kangaroo for its meat, the state government announced on Wednesday. The push for kangaroo meat sparked outrage from the animal welfare lobby and the Greens.

A United Nations report has warned that climate change will force millions of people to relocate triggering famine, inciting conflict and losing trillions of dollars-worth of economic gains.

New interesting dinosaur discovery is making its way through headlines. Scientists discovered a new dinosaur with the scientific name "Anzu Wyliei," nicknamed "Chicken from Hell" because of its bird-like appearance, which had lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.

A defect in the water filtering system at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant had forced operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) to suspend yet again its decontamination process at the facility.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search has entered day 12, and it still continues to puzzle experts. Now more than 26 countries are scouring the oceans and more than 3 million Internet users are rummaging satellite images on a map service. Recent update denies sightings of missing Boeing 777 in Maldives as declared by the Malaysian government. Meanwhile, a new report claims that a student from Taiwan has spotted the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 while searching through satellite images.

If there are female baby makers who rent their wombs for nine months to create a child which is given to another woman, often with fertility problem, to raise the infant as her own, in Germany there is a man who offers insemination service, but for free.

On March 19 and 20, sky gazers will be able to view the huge Asteroid 163 Erigone’s really quick eclipse on the bright star Regulus in the Leo constellation. The celestial event offers the rare viewing experience for those across the northeastern North America and the citizen scientists are asked to help in tracking the occultation event.

People in Canada saw a bright source of light in the sky that looked like a fireball. It happened in Maritime province.

John Wolfson, the 27-year-old surfer and bodyboarder who collided against a dolphin on Monday, his birthday, is not blaming the mammal for the water sports accident.

Greenland's ice sheet is rapidly melting and no longer stable. According to a new study, the rise in sea levels will begin to accelerate because of Greenland's thinning ice sheet. Scientists have already known that Greenland's ice sheet has been melting for decades. However, this was the first time that they've discovered that the melting is also happening in the northern region of the world's second biggest ice sheet. The findings revealed that the ice loss in Greenland's nor...

New Zealand's moas were flightless birds that ruled over the country until the first human settlement arrived. The biggest of the moas had a height of 12 feet with an outstretched neck. The entire moa population composed of nine species had disappeared shortly after the arrival of the first humans in New Zealand in the thirteenth century.

A large cigar-shaped UFO was spotted over the city of Korosten in Ukraine. The captured video on March 6 has surfaced on the Internet. The video got published on March 7, in the YouTube channel O7TV showing the UFO sighting of a large, elongated object gliding in the sky.

A 27-year-old Australian surfer hit a dolphin while riding a wave at Bawley Point on the south coast of New South Wales. The accident site is about 250 kilometres south of Sydney.

The skull of an ocean lion believed to be two million years old as well as fossils of saber-tooth cats has been unearthed by an exploratory excavation team that's part of preparations for constructing Los Angeles' new subway extension.

The Brazilian astronomers have announced their discovery of a new and very bright comet called C/2014 E2 (Jacques) with the use of the SONEAR (Southern Observatory for Near Earth Asteroids Research) close to Oliveira, Brazil. On Thursday, March 13, Cristovao Jacques, E. Pimentel and J. Barros detected their second comet through the CCD images captured with a a 0.45-meter (17.7-inch) wide-field reflector at the SONEAR observatory.

A diamond found in Brazil had led scientists to announce that an ocean's worth of water could possibility be located beneath the planet Earth's crust.