Plastic debris included fishing gear, baby dummies and toothbrushes.
The footage sees the water turn red as the shark is killed.
The volcano is located close to Naples where more than a million people live.
The packages containing the tortoises were declared as 'stones' and flew in on an Etihad Airways flight from Madagascar.
Government working to contain crop-eating caterpillar that arrived for the first time in Africa in 2016.
Potentially groundbreaking results are to be revealed in the BBC2 documentary The Day the Dinosaurs Died.
The mummies were accidentally found at the Tuna Al-Gabal archaeological site through a radar survey.
Two groups of physicists have sparked a heated debate on the origins of the universe.
The US president wanted to place a crew on the moon by 2018 or 2019.
Environmentalists believe the reef, more 1,000 kilometres long and dotted with brightly coloured coral, may be home to new marine species.
The lions are an important tourism attraction for Uganda.
The two reptiles were found in the middle of a road.
The pyramid has been associated with 13th dynasty pharaoh Ameny-Qemau.
The Apollo 11 moonwalker said it is not feasible to support both ambitions.
The 15metre-long carcass was first spotted by a local resident on Seram Island in Maluku province.
Chinese space programme appears far more ambitious than its Nasa equivalent.
Exoplanet HAT-P-26b likely formed close to its star.
The enormous snake was minding his own business before one of the golfers grabbed it by the tail.
The Crab Nebula is located in the Taurus constellation.
A conference on Alabama rot might shed light on this deadly dog disease.
The five-year-old orangutan was held captive in a cage before her rescue.
Given the hazardous landing conditions on Mars, this will double the chances of a successful touchdown on the red planet.
The quake struck Taxkorgan County, located about 1,250km from Xinjiang province's capital, Urumqi.
Native Americans claim 84-gallon spill proves pipeline is environmental hazard.
Lava lake Loki Patera on Io is the most volcanic site in the entire solar system.
Both lions and Sunda clouded leopards could be affected by a loss of prey.
Scientists in Texas said the herbivore was chewing the human rib bone "like a cigar".
The man who discovered the tarantula was 'shaken' by the size of the animal, authorities said.
Researchers have yet to date the structures precisely and to publish their findings.
The magnificent image depicts an azure blue sky from space with white clouds floating around.