SCIENCE

China has been forced to artificially induce rain as its crucial Yangtze River is running at extremely low water levels.

The cause of death is uncertain, though officials believe the fish are likely to have been poisoned.

NASA's gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, is set to begin an hours-long crawl to its launchpad Tuesday night ahead of the behemoth's debut test flight later this month.

Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said.

French maize crop conditions declined steeply last week to their lowest level in at least a decade, data from farm office FranceAgriMer showed.

The source of the River Thames has dried up further downstream than ever before, as England looks set to enter a drought that some experts say the country is unprepared for.

More than 1,000 firefighters backed by water-bombing aircraft battled a "monster" wildfire near France's wine-growing heartland of Bordeaux for a third day on Thursday.

Following a heatwave alert, the UK Met Office has now said that parts of England and Wales face an "exceptional" risk of wildfires in the coming days.

The oldest UFO sighting in the UK was recorded in 1742 during the reign of George II of Great Britain.

A half-blind Greenland shark, which is normally found in icy Arctic waters, was spotted swimming in the warm waters of the Caribbean.

The menu notes that a real beef burger's emissions is "10 times the amount of its vegan alternative".

A fire that destroyed a forest in southwest France has flared again amid a fierce drought and the summer's latest wave of extreme heat.

A flock of sheep shelter from the midday sun under the gothic arches of a medieval bridge flooded in 1956 to create the Cijara reservoir in central Spain.

The heatwave and dry weather conditions have created drought-like conditions in many parts of England, & a village in Oxfordshire has become its latest victim.

The sweltering conditions come just weeks after the last heatwave pushed the mercury over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time in Britain.

Britain's weather service on Tuesday issued an amber "Extreme Heat" warning for parts of England and Wales.

A team of explorers has been able to unearth a treasure trove of jewels, gold coins and gems from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon.

Faced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it spends its water resources.

Through blistering heatwaves and drought that have parched the French countryside in recent weeks, one group has emerged a reluctant winner: salt farmers in the northwestern region of Guerande.

The moon's bright light will overpower the meteors' shine and stargazers should expect to see 10-20 meteors per hour at best, unlike last year.

Heatwaves sweeping Europe this summer have brought not just record high temperatures and scorched fields: the drought-stricken waters of Italy's River Po are running so low they revealed a previously submerged World War Two bomb.

Asteroid 2022 OE2 is part of the Apollo group of asteroids and is classified as a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA).

South East Water has announced a hosepipe ban for Kent and Sussex which will come into effect from August 12.

Ceres is now being considered a chemical factory and a bona fide target for astrobiologists hunting for life beyond Earth.

The heatwave coupled with dry weather conditions has dried up the Thames River near its official start point in Gloucester.

A huge fire broke out Thursday in a popular forest in western Berlin next to a police munitions storage site

Curious onlookers made their way Thursday to the site of a volcano erupting near Iceland's capital Reykjavik to marvel at the bubbling lava.

This occurrence could signal the beginning of a period of shorter days on Earth.

Farmers in Tuscany are battling to salvage as much as they can of this year's crop from the ravages of drought and heatwave.