SCIENCE

Australia has been at the sharp end of climate change, with droughts, deadly bushfires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change.

Millions of sea sponges in New Zealand's Fiordland region have been affected by extreme ocean temperatures.

Ailing oceans in state of 'emergency', says UN chief

The drought in Italy has become so intense that a World War II-era shipwreck that had submerged in the Po River decades ago has now resurfaced.

Israeli archaeologists have discovered an ancient mosque in the Negev desert near the city of Rahat.

The record-breaking heatwave in Kansas, US has led to the death of as many as 2,000 cattle so far.

A vet in Dublin managed to successfully perform a Caesarean section surgery on a guinea pig and help her deliver six kits.

A social media influencer, Emma, who goes by the username @emickkah on TikTok has claimed that her aesthetician found the beads from a face scrub in her pores.

Around 100 dead roach fish were found dead in Belper River Gardens on Sunday after temperatures went past 30C earlier last week.

An extremely rare 15ft megamouth shark washed ashore in a village in the Philippines.

Standing on a snowy mountainside about 2,500 metres above sea level, Eric Marechal holds up a crimson test-tube.

A 13-foot-long and 300 kg (661 lb) stingray caught by a fisherman in the Mekong River of Cambodia is the world's largest recorded freshwater fish,

The impacts of global warming may force Nepal to move the Mount Everest base camp from its original position and to a lower altitude.

The World Health Organisation is looking into reports that the monkeypox virus is present in the semen of patients, exploring the possibility that the disease could be sexually transmitted, a WHO official said on Wednesday.

People living in the coastal towns of the UK may have to eventually leave their homes and relocate due to rising sea levels and erosion.

Rocket firm Astra Space's mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space.

Asteroid samples contain 'clues to origin of life': Japan scientists

The White Rock spinosaurid -- which the researchers hope to formally name as a new species -- is from the Early Cretaceous period and is estimated to be around 125 million years old.

Fossilized bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England's Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe, a beast that was a cousin of the biggest carnivorous dinosaur species on record.

Brazilian authorities have launched a search operation for British Journalist Don Philip and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira.

The world's second-largest economy has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a permanently crewed space station by 2022 and eventually sending humans to the Moon.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of comparing climate activists to Nazis after a group of them interrupted his speech.

A pregnant Sumatran elephant was found dead of suspected poisoning in Indonesia's Riau province.

A report by wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has warned that 24 species of butterflies found in Britain may soon disappear.

The floods have been wreaking havoc in the Indian state of Assam with at least eleven people having lost their lives in various flood-related incidents so far.

A study published in The Lancet has revealed that pollution caused more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, the highest number reported from any country.

Several reports have suggested that the insect population is on a decline worldwide which could lead to a collapse of ecosystems.

The scorching heatwave that has swept India is not only affecting humans but is also proving deadly for animals. The animal rescuers in the Indian state of Gujarat have come across dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping every day in the last few weeks.

A new report by the US government's Drought Monitor has revealed that the water levels in California's two biggest reservoirs have dropped to "critically low levels."