ENVIRONMENT

Canada will fail to meet its 2020 commitment of reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Japan's being advised to brace for Category 5 super typhoon VongFong, dubbed 2014's strongest cyclone.

Typhoon Phanfone which lashed out Japan over the weekend has killed a U.S. airmen, while two others were being presumed dead.

Oxygen tank among divers would soon become optional following the discovery by scientists of a crystalline material that pulls oxygen out of the surrounding environment. The material, dubbed as Aquaman Crystal, uses cobalt to pull and release oxygen without the need for big storage tanks.

The world's first carbon capture coal-fired plant has been launched, not in the U.S., but in Canada.

The Western Australian government ordered on Thursday the closure of the beach at Kelpid Beach in Wylie Bay, following a shark attack on a 23-year-old man. The victim, Sean Pollard from Bunbury, lost both an arm and a hand, plus suffered injuries on his leg.

The fourth largest lake in the world, Aral Sea, has now gone completely dry.

WWF reports a decline in wildlife and the need for conservation.

A group of scientists conducting a field research in the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu have found 7 new species including the Chinchilla.

For the first time details of the seabed of the Indian Ocean has been discovered. Through underwater mapping, extinct volcanoes and high ridges have been found.

A young boy, Daniel Super, was bitten twice on his ankle by a tiger snake.

From an estimated 8 injured and 250 trapped hikers, the toll from the Saturday noon eruption of Japan's Mount Ontake appears to have risen dramatically. Unofficial estimate place the number of dead victims to more than 30.

Mount Ontake in Japan erupted before noon on Saturday, Sept 27, spewing a large ash plume 3 kilometres up the sky, trapping at least 250 climbers near its summit and injuring at least 8 hikers, reports NHK World TV.

Mycologists picked up a pack of mushroom from a London grocery store and found that 3 of the fifteen mushrooms were of a different species.

Two tigers fought in the Assiniboine Park Zoo, which resulted in the death of one of those.

Japan's Fukushima Prefecture has been jolted by a pair of moderate earthquakes on Wednesday.

A new set of carbon emission rules specifically targeting model-year 2017 vehicles will be implemented soon in Canada.

Theo Zwanziger, German member of the executive committee of FIFA, the governing body of world football, said on Tuesday that Qatar won't host the 2022 World Cup.

Most people would immediately flee at the first sign of an attacking crocodile, but an unnamed 20-year-old Australian who wrestled with the reptile and poked it in the eye.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is one of the major national leaders to skip the United Nation climate summit in New York.

With its rainfall of 266 millimetres over less than 24 hours, Typhoon Fung-Wong (Mario) is now being compared more to the destructive Ketsana (Ondoy) that inundated Metro Manila for one week in September 2009 than the Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which brought very powerful winds that devastated the Visayas islands.

It was found that an asteroid that resulted in wiping out many species played a huge role in the switch from evergreens to the fast-growing seasonal plants.

The memory of super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) which battered the Philippines in November 2013 and killed more than 6,000 people hounded the Southeast Asian country anew on Friday as heavy rains caused flooding in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised to critical the alert level at Mayon Volcano which started to billow smoke and spew lava and hot bouders. The volcano is actually erupting already but not at an explosive level, said seismologists.

California park rangers are accusing members of the Lupin Lodge, a nudist colony, of stealing water from a nearby waterfall at Hendrys Creek Property so they could skinny dip even during a drought across the state. The 110-acre naturist resort outside San Francisco is near a reservoir that is almost empty.

A human jawbone that matches a skull that was found at Mona Vale beach was discovered at the same beach six years later.

Skeletons holding hands have been dug out in Leicestershire.

The surgery to remove the tumour from the brain of George, the goldfish, took 45 minutes with a cost of $200.

Sightseers and volcanologists have been treated to a sight of the brightly coloured lava flowing due to the eruption of Bardarbunga volcano.