ENVIRONMENT

According to data from the United Nations Population Division the world would hit the seven billion population mark on Oct. 31, and it took humanity only a dozen years to add another billion to the planet. The steep population curve is likely to continue in the next few decades with demographers estimating that humanity will number at least 9.3 billion by 2050.

Leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is accused of changing his colors again, this time on one of the most sensitive global issues, climate change and human impact.

Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the Late Cretaceous Epoch 70 million years ago, which is an example of greenhouse climate on earth, could help scientists understand the consequences of modern increases in greenhouse gases.

Southeast Queensland experienced severe thunderstorms over the weekend, but no major damages were reported. Meanwhile, thunderstorms predicted for Sydney over the weekend did not materialize.

A climate sceptic has said that it is now time to end the debate over whether global warming is real after the most definitive study into temperature data gathered by weather stations over the past half-century.

Three whales, believed to be Gray’s beaked whales, have become stuck on a beach near Tauranga in New Zealand, close to the ill-fated MV Rena, which has been wedged in for over three weeks now on Astrolabe Reef in Bay of Plenty.

Overpopulation is one of the issues that man has faced ever since we've learned to populate, and with it comes a number of other issues that need to be addressed.

The 52nd annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in Florida is showcasing a prototype of a personal submarine that can repeatedly take up to three people for a trip down into the deepest part of the Earth, the Mariana Trench.

Australia will share its food productive expertise with poor African nations through a new $36-million food security centre which Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth on Friday.

Thailand's floods have washed over crocodile farms pens and swept the reptiles downstream to Bangkok's northern suburbs threatening to make a meal out of residents of townhouse subdivisions there.

The massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey has opened the lines of communication between the governments of Turkey and Israel for humanitarian reasons. Turkish officials say the death toll from Sunday's earthquake now stands at 523. The prime minister's center for crisis and emergency management further reported 1,650 people were injured and a total of 185 were rescued from the rubble so far.

Rio Tinto plans to conduct a complex testing program in 2012 for its VK1 exploration technology.

Australia, a country largely recognized as the world's biggest coal exporter by volume and a major contributor to the rise of developing economies, has been found also a major contributor to the global environment's rapid deterioration.

Young people at risk of depression are more likely to listen habitually and repetitively to heavy metal music. University of Melbourne researcher Dr Katrina McFerran has found.

In an effort to reduce the effects of global warming - which raises the temperature of the planet due to carbon emissions - researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed a way to grow a forest in the Aravah Desert.

At first glance, German-based start-up Changers offers nothing new. Solar powered chargers have been on the market before but Changers offers more than a green way to charge up your electronic devices. It wants you and your friends to join the greenest social network on the internet to date.

With knee-deep floodwaters enveloping Bangkok, high tides from the sea are pushing the Chao Phraya River's level in the central city to as high as 2.6 metres above mean sea level, above a 2.5-metre concrete floodwall, the chief of the Thail Navy's Hydrographic Department said Wednesday.

Tons of wreckage from the March 11 Japanese tsunami are reported heading across the Pacific Ocean toward North America.

Research by carbon analytics firm RepuTex showed that the proposed carbon tax will cost the Standard & Poor's ASX 200 firms $18.7 billion in the decade 2013 through 2022.

In the case of killer whales, these gigantic ocean mammals, according to a new study, swims away from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to purposely shed its old skin and take on a new and shiny one.

North American Union has Arrived: First Official Mexican Shipping Truck to Cross US Border

Oysters and other marine creatures could find forming their shells difficult in the future if water acidification continues.

Several parts of the world may see temperatures exceeding "safe" levels in the next two decades unless emissions of greenhouse gas are substantially reduced, climate scientists warn.

When water from the tsunami that slammed northeastern Japan on March 11 returned to the ocean, it dragged back huge amounts of debris, including pieces of homes, cars, furniture, fishing boats and refrigerators.

A third person has recently been killed by a shark off Australia's west coast, raising fears among swimmers, especially in Cottlesloe and Dunsborough beaches. The three fatal attacks happened within 2 months, alerting officials, who are now hunting the killer white sharks. While one can never tell when a shark would be around to attack, the general advice given by experts is to avoid the shark's feeding schedule, which is at dusk, dawn, and night time hours. It is best to stay on the beach...

California regulators on Thursday approved final regulations for a carbon market that is one of the biggest U.S. responses to climate change.

Bolivian president Evo Morales has announced he will be scrapping the controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that has triggered widespread protests.

Government officials of Kashiwa city in Chiba Prefecture said Saturday that they have detected a high level concentration of radioactive cesium in the soil if city-owned land. About 276,000 Becquerels of cesium per kilogram of soil was found below the surface following the detection of an abnormal level of airborne radiation earlier in the week.

The documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” by former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore has been described as a masterpiece. Nonetheless, a new research undertaken by a a climate researcher from the Lund University in Sweden is now contradicting Mr. Gore's global warming theory.