NATURE

Around 160,000 California homes and businesses were without power Tuesday.

In a surprising finding, scientists in France have been able to discover a very dangerous type of ant for the first time in the country.

Most of the recently revealed tracks were made by Acrocanthosaurus, which weighed nearly seven tons (6,350 kilograms) as an adult and stood 15 feet (4.5 meters) tall.

A severe drought gripping much of Spain threatens to shrivel their harvest this year.

Japan's national weather agency issued its top-level alert after the Sakurajima volcano, located in the Kagoshima Prefecture, erupted on Sunday.

A rare white whale washed ashore on a beach in Australia on Saturday. The carcass of the whale was found at a beach in Mallacoota.

The US state of South Dakota witnessed an extremely unusual phenomenon after its sky turned an ominous, bright green in appearance on Tuesday.

A baby seal was found almost 3 miles away from its home in the ocean at a farm in South Australia on Thursday.

The land area cleared of trees in Brazil's Amazon rainforest last month was the biggest since the authorities started to keep a track of the same in 2015.

At least 53 people have died so far in landslides and floods in the Philippines after Tropical Storm Megi hit the country on Sunday. The death toll is only expected to increase in various flood-related incidents.

A US-based wind energy firm has been slapped with $8m fine after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states over the last 10 years.

A study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US, has found that turtles experience a temporary hearing loss due to underwater noise pollution caused by activities such as shipping.

We have heard of humans being put on special diet regimes to help them lose weight, but a zoo in Taiwan's Taipei has had to put two pandas on a strict diet because they have become obese.

The Indonesian man eaten alive by a 13-foot-long crocodile while bathing in river

The ranger is reportedly the third victim that was mauled by the same tiger

The zookeeper was in the intermediate security corridor that elephants use when entering and exiting their stables.

Robert's entry received received 55,486 votes from around the world to win the competition, besting 49,000 submissions.

The monkeys are reportedly chained by the neck and forced to climb up tall coconut trees to pick coconuts.

The authorities have banned all aircraft from the disaster area until 3 pm Monday as they conduct aerial searches.

According to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) what happened was a so-called "quick clay slide" of approximately 300 by 700 metres (328 to 766 yards).

The human cost of Yasa could have been worse had it not landed in the sparsely populated Bau province.

Strict controls were announced for the areas where the total eclipse would be visible, with free movement banned both the day before and after.

The network of water-filled caissons is designed to be raised within 30 minutes to create a barrier capable of resisting a water rise of three metres above normal.

The ministry says the elephants are being sold "due to drought and increase in elephant numbers coupled with human-elephant conflict incidences."

69 whales had already died by the time wildlife officers reached the beach.

Three killer whales were identified as the "rogue" individuals and were found to be marauding juvenile orcas.

Heavy rain effectively shut down Manila, the sprawling capital of 12 million people, and surrounding areas, turning streets into rivers.

In the past, high-powered lasers were needed to achieve similar results, making the technique dangerous, costly and inaccurate.

In mountainous Central America, flooded rivers can sweep over local residents in rural areas, in addition to triggering landslides.