ENVIRONMENT

Authorities at the Bwabwata National Park suspect the death toll will go up as it is possible that some of the carcasses were eaten by crocodiles.

Vasudevan Sridharan Oct 11, 2017

At least four wineries suffered "total or very significant losses," and at least nine reported damage to their winery, outbuildings or surrounding vineyards.

David Sim Oct 11, 2017

"Using common sense and high-quality technology, we have developed a farm where... the environment is spared as much as possible."

James Tennent Oct 10, 2017

IBTimes UK shares portraits and stories of survivors living in small towns near the epicentre of the earthquake that rocked Mexico on 19 September, killing at least 369 people.

David Sim Oct 10, 2017

'Snowball Earth' is a hypothesis scientists use to describe a time when the entire surface of the planet was frozen.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 10, 2017

Fifteen wildfires broke out almost simultaneously in Northern California, destroying homes, wineries and hotels and trailer parks. Seven died in Sonoma County. Two died in Napa County and one in Mendocino County. Death toll is expected to rise.

David Sim Oct 10, 2017

Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott has told London think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) that climate change 'is probably doing good'.

Brendan Cole Oct 10, 2017

Modifying corn could potentially benefit millions of people in low-income countries, who depend on it as a staple.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 09, 2017

EPA chief Scott Pruitt announced that he would sign a rule on 10 October withdrawing the plan aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.

James Tennent Oct 09, 2017

Tropical storm brought powerful winds and severe flooding to the southern US states after Nate landed near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Isabelle Gerretsen Oct 09, 2017

Hurricane caused serious flooding in southern US states but weakened on Sunday and was downgraded to a tropical storm.

Isabelle Gerretsen Oct 08, 2017

The latest Atlantic hurricane is expected to make landfall on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend.

India Ashok Oct 07, 2017

Tesla CEO and real-life Iron Man wants to save Puerto Rico's broken energy network with his own solar power grid.

James Billington Oct 06, 2017

Scientists have found a way to predict when Old Faithful will blow its top, sending steam up to 180 feet into the air.

Martha Henriques Oct 06, 2017

Neonicotinoids contaminate the majority of honey in the world. Almost half of all honey samples contained more than one neonicotinoid.

Martha Henriques Oct 05, 2017

As the giant iceberg keeps moving away from Antarctica, it is estimated to reveal 2,240sq miles (5,800sq km) of seafloor with a hidden ecosystem.

India Ashok Oct 05, 2017

The technique could bring an economy based on hydrogen fuels - which only emit water - a step closer to reality.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 04, 2017

In recent decades there has been less and less rain in central India – but the rain that does fall is coming down in increasingly extreme storms.

Martha Henriques Oct 03, 2017

Since the break happened in July, Nasa had to rely solely on thermal images and radar-based data to observe the break and watch the motion of ice.

Immanuel Jotham Oct 03, 2017

Beaches are leaching highly radioactive caesium.

Martha Henriques Oct 02, 2017

Zealandia is believed to have broken off from Australia and Antarctica around 80 million years ago.

Shubham Sharma Sep 30, 2017

The week's best photos, from Rohingya refugees and Mexico City earthquake, to Invictus Games, battle for Raqqa and Take a Knee protests.

David Sim Sep 29, 2017

The US territory of 3.4 million people has struggled through nine days with virtually no electricity and shortages of fuel and clean water in the wake of the most powerful storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years.

David Sim Sep 29, 2017

Vanuatu, home to about 260,000 people, is made up of about 65 islands on the geologically active Pacific Ring of Fire.

David Sim Sep 28, 2017

Harnessing the power of evaporation could provide as much as 70% of the energy the US is currently producing.

Aristos Georgiou Sep 26, 2017

Bali is being shaken daily by hundreds of tremors from the mountain, which volcanologists say indicates a high chance of an eruption.

David Sim Sep 26, 2017

The new iceberg is believed to be unstable and has already broken into smaller chunks as it drifts into the sea.

India Ashok Sep 26, 2017

The storm-battered US island territory has struggled through days with virtually no electricity, and more misery could be on the way thanks to a dam that might fail at any moment.

David Sim Sep 25, 2017

Impacts from space may have been responsible for the first recycling of the Earth's crust.

Sep 25, 2017