ENVIRONMENT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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