The federal government stamped its environmental approval on the Chevron-led Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) project that experts said would lead to billion-dollars of investments but could disrupt the marine eco-system off the coast of Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
Retired Chinese NBA star Yao Ming has teamed up with British business tycoon Richard Branson in convincing Chinese citizens especially the affluent families against eating shark fins emphasizing the government must be strict in implementing the law on their trade and use.
It resembles the plot line of a cheesy horror flick, but the idea that a new generation of vicious "mutant" dogs will one day spawn from puppies still living in and around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster zone is something that Japanese officials are taking very seriously.
A 17-year-old mysteriously wanders into Germany's capital from a nearby forest, adding to the long and often tragic history of kids raised in the wild.
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Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a warning to Honshu residents for constant vigilance as Typhoon Roke blasted into the region late Wednesday.
This weekend, there is one-in-3200 risk that the speeding debris of the defunct 6-tonne, 35-ft NASA satellite the size of a school bus would hit someone on Earth. What do you do if you got "lucky?" NASA says, "Don't touch it."
The subatomic neutral particle called neutrinos have beaten light or photon particles in a race, according to an experiment conducted by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN.
A giant NASA satellite is expected to crash to the Earth's surface on Friday. The 12,500-pound, 35-foot long Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is estimated to be the size of a school bus.
China's technological sleight has taken a new dimension as it plans to launch its experimental aerospace, which is expected to commence on the communist country's attempt to build its own space station, says a report from Reuters.
A study on a human skull found in the Iwo Eleru cave in Nigeria, West Africa, shows that modern humans and older subspecies of human might have lived at the same era and even reproduced in the region. Modern humans are estimated to have first appeared in Africa 200,000 years ago. Some scientists are saying that older humans must have lingered and interacted with the new generation of human life.
Typhoon Roke swept through central and westerrn Japan Tuesday night with 144 kph (90 mph) winds, leaving one person dead, two others missing, and more than a million residents fleeing their homes, Japan's weather agency said.
Two Australian retirees invoke the 'father of modern science' in their fight against the hegemony of settled climate science. But their arguments - and the advisors supporting them - draw from a deep history of climate science denial and distortion.
Scientists in the UK, Spain, and Brazil are collaborating to find a way of producing valuable biomass-derived chemicals, materials and fuels from orange peel.
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Scientists discover a novel way of using microwaves to turn orange peels and other plant-based waste into plastic.
Scientists find a dozen unknown 'night frogs' in remote western India, but half may already be threatened with extinction.
Romanian authorities have seized 15 truckloads of imported Dutch tulips, turning back three of these to suppliers in the Netherlands because the flowers were allegedly contaminated with dangerous bacteria.
Astronauts on board the International Space Station enjoy spectacular views of the aurora australis, the southern hemisphere's counterpart to the Northern Lights.
A trial started in Italy on Tuesday for seven scientists charged with manslaughter for apparently predicting that no major earthquake will hit L'Aquila one week after the deadly temblor struck the city in 2009.
The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and Austrade have launched two new publications designed to promote Australian green building capability to overseas governments, private sector developers, architects, engineers, specifiers and distributors of green building products.
Scientists went on record Wednesday to clear the name of the prime suspect behind the mass extinction of dinosaurs.New evidence from NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, clears the name of the Baptistina family of asteroids that many thought was responsible for crashing into Earth and triggering the mass extinction.
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No one knows for sure but scientists think over six million tons of marine debris may be entering our ocean every year.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked northeastern India and Nepal Sunday killing at least 18 people and injuring 100 others.
The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service placed the entire south western region of the state under heightened alert in the coming days as 340 blazes swept across the Australian state.
British surgeons have successfully separated Sudanese twins joined at the top of their heads, and the babies are now recovering well.
A 6-ton decommissioned NASA satellite the size of a bus is expected to fall to Earth on Friday, according to the U.S. space agency.
A 20-year-old satellite from NASA is expected to crash back to earth on Sept. 23, but the problem is that the agency still doe not know where it will fall.
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