ENVIRONMENT

A video, now getting more hits in sharing sites such as YouTube, is disturbing those who had viewed the images because of its disturbing cruelty to animals. The short video showed a mother kangaroo show twice by an arrow on the spine and leg.

A study by German and Swiss scientists published in the journal Nature Geoscience has disclosed that earthquakes not only trigger landslides and tsunamis and do massive damages to infrastructure, not to mention lives lost. They also trigger the release of damaging greenhouse gas methane from underground reservoirs.

A joint military mission by the U.S. and Australia with about 30,000 soldiers was forced to abandon bombs from an aircraft after failing to land their fighter jets safely. The US Navy told the Australian government that it would offer any help required to remove the bombs mistakenly dropped inside the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park .

China, the world's chief emitter of carbon dioxide greenhouse gases, is poised to invest 1.7 trillion yuan (AU$298 billion) to remedy the growing air smog pollution problem lording over its horizons which has killed thousands and sickened hundreds over the years. Specifically, the amount will be used to institute programmes and measures to combat the smog situation in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province.

The set used in the 1990s movie Jurassic Park would look like a miniature model when Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer builds the world's largest dinosaur park.

Researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland discovered that marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify one another. The proof of this is that the animals responded when they heard their unique call - which is similar to the function of a human name - played back to them.

According to a report released on Thursday by the US Department of Energy, rising temperatures can reduce production at power plants. Power plants may reduce their power generation or shut-down temporarily.

One of the highlights of a tour of New Zealand's Parliament building in Wellington, more popularly called the Beehive, is a short video clip on the building being earthquake-proof.

A strange horned dinosaur from the Cretaceous period was discovered in Utah that is believed to have evolved in North America. Meanwhile in Florida, a tooth of the Tyrannosaurus rex was found in a tail of a plant-eating dinosaur

A survey from The Australian Academy of Science found that Aussies did not know if humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs

Eight more cities in China want to limit the purchases of private cars in order to fight and manage the growing double whammy air pollution as well as traffic congestion menace in the country. The eight include Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin and Wuhan.

Fukushima's highly radioactive groundwater could already be spreading out to the Pacific Ocean, Japan's nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said on Wednesday.

Better understanding of the sexual attraction between the male and female stingray could possibly be tapped to help prevent shark attacks on people, a University of Western Australia study said.

Travel plans of thousands of passengers were disrupted for several days after four more U.S. air carriers canceled at least 10 flights from Mexico City as the country's Popocatepetl Volcano continued its activity.

Some areas of Australia's cities will be up to 3.7 degrees hotter by 2050 due to the growth of urbanisation according to new research data Australia will experience the "urban heat island effect" in which temperatures will rise in built-up areas with more asphalt and concrete. Researchers from the University of NSW say the rising temperatures will enhance the effects of climate change.

Wildfires have emerged in Northern and Southern Nevada due to the continuous heat wave engulfing the Western United States

An international study has confirmed the all too obvious - that the air pollution wrought by the excessive coal burning in China's north has affected the life expectancy of the people there, reducing it by as much as five years.

A newly opened slaughterhouse in southern Philippines will provide crocodile skin to luxury bag maker and fashion label Louis Vuitton. The JK Mercado and Sons Agricultural Enterprises (JKMSAE) opened on Wednesday in Kapalong, Davao del Norte, the only crocodile abattoir in Mindanao.

Shoppers at a local Target store in Wilsonville, Oregon, just outside of Portland were shocked recently to step outside the big box depot into a sea of already dead and dying bumblebees.

The western part of the United States will be literally in heat as scorching temperatures are expected to envelope the region over the weekend.

For new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, climate change is the greatest environmental, moral and economic challenge of our time. At least this was true when he defeated John Howard back in 2007 in the general election.

Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has done what most global leaders today find hard to do - to humble himself and his nation before their neighbors for a clear and visible wrongdoing. On Monday, Mr Yudhoyono formally apologised for the smoke haze that is now choking Singapore and Malaysia.

As Singapore got to experience clearer skies over the weekend, the smoke haze from Indonesia's forest fires has shifted this time to Malaysia.

If the cartoon character Tweety were to see the feline breed Selkirk Rex, it would have said, "I thought I saw a poodle cat," not the standard "I thought I taw a puddy tat" whenever she spots Sylvester.

The male dark fishing spider or Dolomedes tenebrosus died at the height of passion, according to a recent study published by the Royal Society Publishing, accessible online through its Biology Letter's Web site.

People in their 40s or older who took typing classes would probably remember the sentence - The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - which was used to teach typing beginners proper finger position. That sentence uses all the 26 letters of the alphabet.

Australia was able to preserve the World Heritage Site status for its renowned Great Barrier Reef, but only for until 2014. And unless Canberra can present concrete ways and measures to satisfy UNESCO on how it plans to protect the reef, the World Heritage Site status could easily be changed and included into the body's list of endangered places next year.

Beijing- China's Council has set new rules to curb air pollution one of the many environmental hazards that are plaguing the country. The council has promised to preserve the resources vowing "tough measures for tough tasks"

The Minerals Council of Australia is not supporting the call by the Climate Commission for the resource industry to move away from coal as the commission pushes for a slowdown in mining of fossil fuels.