ENVIRONMENT

Earth's magnetic field is crucial to the survival of life on our planet as it deflects damaging cosmic rays and solar winds.

Scientists found that green sea turtles are spending more time looking for food and eating in offshore waters, increasing the risk of ending up as fishing bycatch.

Cape Town is in the grips of a drought so severe that it is projected to run out of water on 12 April, becoming the world's first major city to run dry

"This amount of stupidity is very dangerous," one person tweeted.

One of the world's oldest gorillas in captivity has died at San Diego Safari Park zoo. The gorilla named Vila was the matriarch of five generations.

China has announced plans to develop a "Polar Silk Road" to take advantage of new shipping routes created as climate change and rising temperatures cause Arctic ice to melt.

The massive backup battery recently responded to a crisis at a power plant in milliseconds – setting a record in delivering clean energy.

These particles, known as aerosols, are the result of urban and industrial pollution, wildfires and other sources.

Reefs are crucial to the health of the marine ecosystem which humans rely on, but they are dying around the globe.

Rivers across France keep getting more and more swollen as more and more rain falls on the country,.

Researchers found that the sandwiches with the highest carbon footprint were those containing pork meat, cheese or prawns.

Rising temperatures have been directly attributed to human-caused emissions and carbon dioxide dumping.

Paris City Hall closed roads along the shores of the Seine as water levels rose at least 3.3 metres (nearly 11 feet) above the normal level.

One man was killed and at least 11 people were injured when an avalanche, possibly triggered by the eruption of a nearby volcano, engulfed skiers.

Lava fountains gush up 700 metres (2,300 feet) above Mount Mayon's crater and ash plumes tower up to three kilometres (1.9 miles) in the sky.

High levels of the chemical imidacloprid have been detected in a number of waterways across the country.

While North Korea's nuclear ambitions made global headlines, its humanitarian situation received almost no coverage.

Plants can now be made to resist environmental changes like global warming and pathogens.

Three people were killed in Belgium and the Netherlands, and at least eight people died in Germany as powerful winds ripped roofs off buildings, toppled trees and blew trucks off the road.

Activists on the 1,600-hectare site near the village of Notre Dame des Landes say they have developed it into a utopia.

Temperatures at the Australian Open have reached 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) with reports of 69 degrees (156F) being measured on the court surface.

In 2015, some 200,000 saiga antelopes, which is 62% of the global population, living in Kazakhstan died in a matter of three weeks.

Single-use plastics that take five seconds to produce but stays on Earth for 500 years will be targeted, says EU diplomat.

It is unlikely that we will achieve a best case scenario, but it also unlikely that the Earth will become too hot to live in.

A new research claims that microwaves in the EU emit more co2 than 6.8 million cars and consume more electricity than three large gas power plants.

Many common items are unexpected sources of microplastics, which are devastating the world's oceans.

While getting stranded in a blizzard is nobody's idea of fun, you can never have too many slow-motion videos of dogs jumping to catch snowballs.

A petition to make 1.8 million sq km of Antarctic sea a protected area is gaining steam.

A researcher has debunked the infamous earthquake lore after conducting a detailed analysis of 204 deadly quakes that happened over the past four centuries.