ENVIRONMENT

Defying odds, US space agency NASA will relaunch today a satellite that will track the global warming-inducing carbon dioxide levels and its effects around the world.

A new study released by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has said the maddening climate change will drive the iconic emperor penguins to extinction by end of the century.

Climate change predictions say that tropical countries like Singapore will turn hotter and wetter.

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck off near the uninhabited islands of the South Sandwich Islands far off South America in the South Atlantic Ocean early Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.

The World Meteorological Organisation, the UN's weather agency experts, has placed at 80 per cent the chances of an El Niño weather event recurring in the Pacific Ocean by year-end, between October and November.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that got crippled by a tsunami in March 2011 after a magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan's shores, has voted down motions to permanently close all its atomic plant projects during its annual general meeting on Thursday.

Fabien Cousteau is all set to break his grandfather, Jacques Yves-Cousteau's record of the amount of time spend living underwater.

Despite the rains and floods, the match between the U.S. and Germany for World Cup 2014 supremacy will go on as scheduled in the city of Recife, Brazil.

An earthquake measuring 4.8 magnitude struck New Zealand's lower North Island on Thursday.

Australian owners of light vehicles are now mandated to adhere to new emissions standards that could help the country achieve a year's worth cut of carbon pollution of 59 tonnes by 2030, the Climate Change Authority said on Thursday.

The burgeoning climate change could cost U.S. businesses multibillions over the next 25 years, a bipartisan report released on Tuesday said.

Migaloo, a rare white humpback whale migrating north along Australia's east coast, is being monitored for skin cancer by experts as red marks were found on the whale.

In the remote forests of Papua New Guinea, new species of mammals have been found by Australian scientists.

Damages of the burgeoning global warming scenario in the European Union could hit 190 billion euros ($259 billion) a year in the 2071-2100 period, according to a new report by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's in-house science service.

A group composed of scientists from around the world has targeted New Zealand's Southern Alps for drilling, in the hopes their study would enable them to understand how earthquakes are produced and set off.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is out with guidelines for whale watching

Rangers have finally caught the 3.7-m monster saltwater crocodile which stalked Aussie primary school children every time the bell rang at Injinoo Junior Campus in Cape York, a small, remote school at the northern end of Queensland.

A tornado classified as an EF1 twister ripped through the town of New Tecumseth in Ontario, Canada, topping down hydro lines and trees. Environment Canada said its maximum winds were between 135 and 175 kilometres per hour. Reports of fatalities have yet to be received.

Residents of Canada have been advised to brace for a warm and humid weather, possibly with thunderstorms, as the country celebrates its four-day long weekend, Canada Day from June 28 to July 1.

An electronic chip with microscopic chemical sensors have been developed by Israeli scientists. It is said that this chip can detect explosives in air whose concentrations are as low as a few molecules for every thousand trillion.

A couple aggressive animals, likely to be coyotes, are on the loose in Canada as police warned local residents to watch out.

An earthquake of 7.9 magnitude strength struck about 15 miles from Little Sitkin Island, Alaska, on Monday, triggering small tsunamis with less than seven inches high of waves.

The Bureau of Meteorology warned residents of Sydney and south-east NSW on Monday to brace for damaging winds and blizzard conditions that could last until Tuesday.

People off the coast of Port Macquarie were treated to a display of Migaloo, a rare white whale considered as one of the only all white Humpback whales.

Four teenage girls, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin and Bella Eniola, have experimented on a liter of urine placed in their generators, apparently getting six hours of electricity.

The worsening quality of air around the world is set to become the leading cause illness and death of over half of the world's population by end of the century, a study published in Nature Climate Change said.

Over 500 Australians joined Hobart's second nude swim on Sunday, double the previous year's number of 230 midwinter swimmers. The event, Hobart's second winter solstice nude swim, is part of the Dark MOFO arts festival.

Japan is set to deploy into outer space two satellites that will specifically monitor the environmental damages made around the crippled Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power plants. The lift off will occur from a Russian space centre in the Ural region.

A study in the journal Nature Climate Change by researchers from the University of Reading's Department of Meteorology has said the world's present design of aircraft may lower the formation of their distinctive condensation trails (contrails) if they choose their flight paths.