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Watch: Courageous orangutan confronts loggers' bulldozer destroying its jungle home

. More than 1,000 orangutans living in the region have been threatened by illegal actions in the forest

Scientists just discovered a secret penguin kingdom in Antarctica using drones and satellite images

Researchers spotted tell-tale poop stains in Nasa's existing satellite imagery of the Danger Islands, which led the incredible discovery.

Storm Emma: South Western Railway to shut down entire service at 8pm due to weather conditions

South Western Railway has announced that it's entire service will shut down at 8pm UK time due to adverse weather conditions.

Climate change to drastically affect weather and rain patterns throughout India

Lesser rain has been predicted for India, with weaker monsoons likely by the end of this century.

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Is it too late to save the Amazon rainforest? Scientists say it is reaching the 'point of no return'

Scientists say that if deforestation extends 20% of its original area, it may be too late to save the Amazon rainforest.

India Ashok Feb 24, 2018

Scientists tracked commercial fishing in real-time and found over half the world's oceans fished

Scientists used satellites, machine learning and ship-tracking tech to shed light on the extent of commercial fishing worldwide.

India Ashok Feb 23, 2018

Loneliest tree in the world serves as a perfect record of how humans have permanently altered Earth

Evidence that we have entered the Anthropocene epoch has been presented by scientists.

Immanuel Jotham Feb 22, 2018

Revolutionary Nasa technique captures melting Antarctic ice like never before

The seven-year-long work on the system shows that West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at a rapid rate.

Shubham Sharma Feb 22, 2018

Grey squirrels win the battle of wits (and nuts) against red squirrels, study finds

In a study involving hazelnuts, interesting results have emerged regarding the abilities of the two squirrel species

Sadhana Bharanidharan Feb 20, 2018

Race to trash mountain: World's worst garbage dumps and the deadly risks they pose

Heavy rains caused a landslide at a garbage mound in Mozambique which crushed seven houses and killed at least 17 people.

Lara Rebello Feb 20, 2018

Prepare for 'more frequent and intense flooding', warns UK Environment Agency

Due to an increase in patterns of intense weather, the Environment Agency warns the public to prepare for higher risk of flooding.

Sadhana Bharanidharan Feb 20, 2018

Bear or farmer? Scientists find bears' eating habits are critical for maintaining vegetation

A new study has found that Alaska's brown and black bears' occasional eating habits are extremely critical for maintaining vegetation in the region.

Shubham Sharma Feb 18, 2018

Listening for infrasound from roiling lava lakes can help forecast volcanic eruptions

Infrasound waves follow the ebb and flow of lava lakes inside volcanoes and can be used to predict eruptions, say scientists.

Immanuel Jotham Feb 18, 2018

Wales quake: Magnitude 4.2 earthquake hits Wales, and felt from Cornwall to Blackpool

An incredible, rare earthquake has struck Wales and southwest England measuring 4.2 on the richter scale.

Ben Skipper Feb 17, 2018

40 Dramatic Photos Of Sinkholes And Giant Craters That Swallowed Homes And Cars Around The World

We look at craters that have suddenly opened up around the world.

David Sim Feb 16, 2018

Scientists have detected something 7 miles up in the atmosphere which no one can explain

Researchers from the NOAA unexpectedly detected a particle of enriched uranium floating above Alaska.

Aristos Georgiou Feb 15, 2018

New AI can detect earthquakes sooner and reduce natural hazards

Scientists have found a new method to detect earthquakes which works more accurately than existing systems.

Claire Toureille Feb 15, 2018

Watch the first-ever video of a trillion ton iceberg that broke off Antarctica as it floats into the ocean

The iceberg continues to calve and disintegrate as it reaches warmer waters.

Immanuel Jotham Feb 15, 2018

Germany to trial free public transport to avoid big pollution fines

German ministers have announced that free public transportation will be trialled in five cities in an effort to reduce road traffic and meet EU air pollution targets.

Dan Cancian Feb 14, 2018

Climate change is speeding up global sea level rise, expected to double by 2100

The projected consequences of the rapid increase could lead to critical problems for major coastal cities around the globe.

Shubham Sharma Feb 13, 2018

Nasa's mission to study and predict snowstorms at Winter Olympics 2018 – all you need to know

Nasa and 20 other agencies are deploying high-end imagers and radars near the Winter Olympic event venues to take observations for better prediction models.

Shubham Sharma Feb 11, 2018

Global harming: Sustainability or quality of life but not both, study finds

An international team of researchers examined 151 nations around the world, finding that not a single one was operating in a sustainable manner.

Aristos Georgiou Feb 10, 2018

London Museum now has a piece of the 130-tonne Whitechapel fatberg on display

The toxic monster fatberg that took nine weeks to remove and was bigger than Tower Bridge.

Ruchira Sharma Feb 09, 2018

'Sinking' Pacific nation Tuvalu appears to be growing

'Sinking' Pacific nation Tuvalu appears to be growing, according to a University of Auckland study examining geography of 101 reef islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Isabelle Gerretsen Feb 09, 2018

Environment may be harmed more by going vegan

Plant-based and organic diets have significant benefits for the environment, study confirms

The research, which involved more than 34,000 people, is the first to examine the environmental impacts of both diet and farm production systems.

Aristos Georgiou Feb 09, 2018

bioluminescent phytoplankton Big Sur California

Amazing photos of bioluminescent phytoplankton glowing blue in the sea in Big Sur, California

People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.

David Sim Feb 09, 2018

How these close relatives of sharks use super-hot volcanic sea vents as 'nurseries'

Researchers observed over a hundred egg casings of the creatures near volcanic vents spewing out water heated at several hundred degrees.

Shubham Sharma Feb 09, 2018

Could the sun save us from climate change? Our star may emit less heat by mid-century

Researchers say that a stellar event known as a grand minimum will likely take place in the near future, causing our star to give off less radiation.

Aristos Georgiou Feb 08, 2018

What is deposit recycling and could it save the planet?

Scandinavian method of recycling pay-as-you-use bottles could soon come to the UK as means to dent plastics mountain.

Ruchira Sharma Feb 08, 2018

Head of Environmental Protection Agency: 'Is global warming necessarily a bad thing?'

Environmental watchdog boss Scott Pruitt overturns conventional wisdom to ask if global warming might be beneficial to humans.

Ben Skipper Feb 08, 2018

No one knows why ozone layer at lower stratosphere continues to erode despite improvement over the Antarctic

The new findings of the ozone layer come after Nasa announced that the efforts of the Montreal Protocol had actually worked.

Immanuel Jotham Feb 08, 2018

Brexit: Antibiotic-infested US livestock could hamper trade deal

Livestock raised for foods in the US contains five times the level of antibiotics than animals in Britain.

Dan Cancian Feb 08, 2018

The Sun's strongest magnetic field ever measured came from a sunspot wider than Jupiter

The field was expelled in the same month as the record-breaking flare shot out of the Sun.

Immanuel Jotham Feb 07, 2018

Taiwan earthquake photos: Firefighters rescue people from buildings leaning at precarious angles

Photos show buildings in Hualien leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, shattered glass and bent iron beams.

David Sim Feb 07, 2018

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