ENVIRONMENT

A national park and World Heritage Site in eastern Congo is offering a tour of an erupting volcano to watch it shoot lava 300 metres into the air.

Like its counterparts in the U.S., Australia's only manufacturer of solar panels is suffering from weak sales due to competition from cheap Chinese solar panel imports.

Doomsday 2012 scenarios include the eruption of supervolcano, but NASA said its geological records holds no clues that such supereruptions have happened during the Earth’s 4.5 billion-year lifetime.

It's one of the top concerns of people everywhere -- how do we grow our own food for superior nutrition and food sovereignty? How do we store an emergency food supply that can get us through a crisis when conventional food deliveries to grocery stores may be cut off?

Lock the Gate responds to Santos withdrawal from Spring Ridge

Airdrop is a a lo-tech air harvester aims to alleviate the effect of drought on agriculture.

Governments should find ways to raise $100 billion yearly for the Green Climate Fund, which was created in December last year, which will help countries cope with global warming.

Solar energy if harvested in space could meet global energy needs in as little as 30 years, according to a new study by the International Academy of Astronautics.

Glowing waves in California are attracting surfers and kayakers. What is causing this eerie, otherworldly phenomenon?

Qantas will start using biofuel to power its planes next year, the airline's CEO Alan Joyce announced during the Australian Airports Association convention in Brisbane on Monday.

The Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) are struggling to pull two stranded sperm whales in Tasmania's northwest coast back to the sea on Monday amid bad weather as 24 others died on a beach.

Although the Australian government is apparently battling an uphill fight over carbon tax, renewable energy and similar issues as the debate gets lively, trends support the Labor government position that the country should shift toward renewables and away from coal.

The Earth’s core, which is some 3,000km (1,900 miles) below sea level, will never be reached by scientists but a new experiment will attempt to unravel the mysterious processes at the center of the planet.

Residents in Thailand's Don Mueang district have defied the orders of authorities when they destroyed flood barriers made of sand bags to create a way for boats and access the flooded 20 housing estates.

Has the elusive Ogopogo, the Canadian version of Scotland's famous Loch Ness Monster, finally been caught on video?

Pollution has always been a part of man's life what with even the smallest of choices made. Now, pollution is a head ache that the world faces, and to some degree, is a neglected problem because of the changes associated to reducing it.There are a lot of negative effects that come with pollution, and according to a new study led by a group of researchers from the University of Maryland, there is another reason why pollution should be reduced.

One moment they're there and the next, they're completely gone. That's what researchers have discovered in some species of deep ocean squid and octopus that can switch from becoming transparent to becoming deep red to blend into their environment.

Amid continued debate over Australia's carbon tax, the country's greenhouse gas emission rose by 3.8 per cent in October, according to the Emissions Insights report of RepuTex carbon analytics for the last month.

A global climate change affecting Earth for about 150,000 years could have happened 56 million years ago due to the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate that was frozen under the seafloor.

Researchers from the RMIT University have created the first ever ‘clean and green’ truck in Australia. The revolutionary truck is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and is bound to be a promising addition to the environmental efforts for finding sustainable technologies. The researchers were able to demonstrate that it is possible for transportation to be made clean, environment friendly and quiet.

Each of us is inherently an "animal rights person" to some degree, whether we realize it or not. Take the recent case of the Charleston, West Virginia, Daily Mail blogger who wrote about having a mouse in her house.

Thai irrigation officials said flood waters in Bangkok will be gone in 11 days as it continues to drain into the sea at a rate of 400 million cubic metres per day.

An animal conservation group has declared the black rhinoceros as extinct and warned that two other subspecies of the animal may also be lost forever due to poaching.

The beautiful African antelope known as Beatragus hunteri or hirola is now on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of critically endangered species.

Solar power is perhaps one of the most expensive renewable energy technologies today, but developments are underway to make it cheaper and more economical. Researchers at Argonne National Laboratories and Penn State are saying that luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) could eliminate the cost barrier.

Despite the controversy generated by the carbon tax, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown said on Thursday that the country is now ready to take global lead on climate.

Activist and actor shares details about his lead role in 'J. Edgar' and his dedication to environmental issues like animal conservation.

Paleontologist Jack Horner, who was also technical advisor for the Jurassic Park trilogy, has claimed that he can create a chicken dinosaur or chickenosaurus through genetic manipulation. But he will need $1 million to splice the genes of a chicken and dinosaur to create the new species.

A research team funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is set to fly to the Antarctic next month to study the rate of how glaciers are being drained into the sea due the changes in climate patterns.