ENVIRONMENT

Big Head, the Loggerhead Turtle, proved over the weekend that it is a likely good replacement for Paul, the Octopus, as the oracle of the World Cup.

A U.S. teenager caught a giant fish in Canada while he was fishing with his father.

As the world awaits for the potential impacts of a looming El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, countries around the Indonesian archipelago have been advised to brace for more devastating Indian Ocean weather events that could bring more and severe drought, bushfires and floods to affected countries, Australia included.

While most of the dangerous gases that had built up in the atmosphere over the years may have come from countries in the Earth's northern hemisphere, it is the countries however in the south that will bear the impact of the planet's global warming and climate change, a report released by ratings agency Standard & Poor's said.

Model and marine conservationist Hannah Fraser danced with man-eating tiger sharks to show her protest against worldwide killing of the species, and to prove that sharks could not be that "scary".

Australia on Wednesday lowered its 2014-15 wheat production forecast by one per cent due to the looming El Niño weather phenomenon.

Students falling in love and having sex with their teachers is quite commonplace. However, a BBC documentary to be shown next week features a male dolphin named Peter falling in love with his human female teacher who was tasked to teach the mammal to speak English.

A new study released by researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has said the release of carbon dioxide emissions by the world's oceans is being heightened up by the continued rise of global warming temperatures.

U.S.-based nuclear waste management company Kurion Inc announced on Monday it had been chosen by Tokyo Electric Power to treat the contaminated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

China has literally moved to tearing down and flattening 700 mountains to provide land for its growing population.

Global warming this time has affected even the bodies of the dead from World War II. The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands disclosed over the weekend that rising sea water levels have washed the remains of Japanese World War II soldiers from their graves.

Northern Territory Police appears to have found on Sunday the 62-year-old Australian man who was grabbed by a crocodile while cruising with his family along Kakadu National Park.

A crocodile snatched an Australian man from a boat at the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory on Saturday afternoon.

A U.N. report released on Thursday said the continuing rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system is posing irreversible damages to the coral reefs in the world's smaller islands.

New research of scientists from China's space weather laboratory has disclosed that the planet Earth's global warming status is influenced and exacerbated by the sun's solar activities.

Three new gases have been discovered by scientists to be present up there in the atmosphere that could exacerbate the rate of the world's global warming status.

Residents in Latin America, especially Chile, Mexico and Guatemala, have been advised to brace for more rains even as weather bureau said tropical storm Boris has weakened.

The Invasive Species Council was alarmed on the recent discovery of cane toad's cousin sitting in a dog's water bowl in the backyard of a resident in Sunbury, Melbourne.

Alaska's volcano - Pavlof- is one of the most active and currently showing lots of seismic activity and erupting which began late Friday, May 30th. Experts record the continuous stream and ash plume to have reached 24,000 feet above sea level with satellite imaging showing a plume extending more than 80 km southeast of the volcano, reports The USGS.

The number of seismic activity or earthquakes above magnitude 4.0 have breached the records in Los Angeles, U.S., baffling scientists. Could the area be in for a major one soon similar to the 1994 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake that killed 57 and injured more than 8,700?

There may be a correlation between the amount of light in one's room and one's weight, said the Institute of Cancer Research in London. Researchers believe that sleep disruption and circadian rhythms by exposure to light at night (LAN) may be linked to the rise in obesity.

The Obama administration on Monday has revealed a new plan which targets to slash its country's power plant carbon dioxide emissions by 30 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030.

The Sangeang Api Volcano in Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, continued to spew ashes on Tuesday since its initial eruption on Friday, causing the cancellation of more Bali flights as ash plume covers the regional sky.

At least four people have died after a monster sandstorm and record winds struck Iran, overwhelming the capital of Iran in darkness on Monday.

Ash clouds that erupted from Indonesia's Sangeang Api volcano have dissipated to safe levels, enabling Australian airliners to resume flights to Bali on Monday.

Mount Sangeang Api in Indonesia erupted on Friday, spewing ashes in the air between 20,000 and 50,000 feet in the air and up to 15 kilometres across. The ash plume swept towards Alice Springs in Australia. The eruption caused Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia to cancel all flights between Australia and Bali. Among the cancelled route were Bali-bound planes from Melbourne, Darwin, Adelaide and East Kimberley. Also cancelled were Jetstar Asia trips between Bali and Singapore.

Between the period Jan 1 to May 23, there have been a total of 288 confirmed cases of measles in the United States, the highest number since its elimination from the country in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.

Canada's Athabasca Glacier, the most visited glacier in North America, is losing five metres (16 feet) of ice per year that scientists forecast the immediate next generation of Canadians and tourists won't be able to see and enjoy them anymore.

Heavy rains that pounded on south Louisiana on Wednesday not only brought massive flooding. It has killed at least one person, and moreover, it popped caskets of its graves, making them float just about everywhere.