ENVIRONMENT

Blooming algae is the reason behind green snow in Antarctica.

Scientists discover a link between high rates of pollution and rate of COVID-19 deaths.

Those residing in Antarctica have been screening new arrivals for coronavirus since earlier this year.

COVID-19 has claimed more than 50,000 lives worldwide.

The population of rare white giraffes has been reduced to a single male after a mother and calf were killed in Kenya.

Australia has seen dozens of inquests into the causes of bushfires and steps that could be taken to mitigate them, with mixed results.

These microbes were reportedly discovered more than three decades ago, along the shores of the Potomac River.

Amazon employees last month signed a blog criticising the online retail giant's climate policies and demanding it do more to tackle climate change.

By Sunday evening, Meteo-France said the worst seemed to have passed as winds dropped to below 100 kph

A rescue mission to save a surfer almost turned tragic when the lifeboat was nearly flipped over by tempestuous waves.

An estimated billion animals have perished in the fires that destroyed more than 2,500 homes.

Food and cosmetics giant Unilever announced last September that it will cut its use of new plastic in packaging by half by 2025.

New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire in Sydney.

A four-star hotel is facing criminal charges for having smoked baby chimpanzee on their à la carte menu, which the owner claims to be a printing error.

Department of Remote Sensing said the smoke had arrived in Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.

The blazes have claimed 18 lives and forced mass evacuations.

A group of men allegedly pulled a young great white shark onto the beach before kicking it in the face, taking pictures and leaving it to die.

A farmer in New South Wales was left shattered when he had to euthanise some of his cattle after they were horribly burnt by the bushfire still raging in parts of Australia.

From New Year's day, any reef-toxic sunscreen imported or sold in Palau will be confiscated and the owner will be fined US$1,000.

A total of 66 nations now have plans to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

Howletts Wild Animal Park boss, Damian Aspinall, calls zoos "barbaric" and implores parents to not take children to see animals held captive in them.

The treated water is currently kept in a thousand huge tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi site.

Human-animal conflict highlighted again in drought-stricken Zambia as tourists left frozen in fear by three elephants raiding an open dining hall in a tourist lodge in search of food.

Researches have concluded that attaching LED lights to fishing nets can prevent turtles, dolphins, and marine birds from getting trapped in fishing nets.

The headteacher received backlash for banning the exchange of Christmas cards at a Lincolnshire primary school.

A deer was found dead after consuming waste thrown by visitors to Thailand's Khun Sathan National Park.

Methane emissions could be reduced substantially if farmers selectively reared "environmentally-friendly" cattle breeds.

Bushfires have devastated koala habitats and breeding populations to the extent where researchers believe that the species can be termed as "functionally extinct".

A so-called "Koala Ark" would be built for recovering koalas.