A 16-foot great white shark detected skimming in the southwest coast of Australia lead popular beaches in the country to close down and residents near the area to avoid entering the water.
For countries about to construct nuclear power plants, or even those that had, a floating facility built offshore would serve best against tsunami and earthquake threats.
A miscalculation by government officials had turned a supposed successful rescue operation of a sinking South Korean ferry into a major disaster. At least six have died and 300, mostly high school students, remain missing.
Young men, beware of the consequences of teen pranks such as squeezing your pal's testicles. In the case of a 17-year-old Irish student, the joke gone bad led to the doctors treating him to place the youth in a state of induced coma.
A new scientific study has cited 99.9 percent of the effects of climate change are a result of human activity.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is parents' worst nightmare. But researchers from Adelaide University might have identified the leading cause of this deceitful syndrome.
It is snowing in Canada. Yes, it is April in Canada as well.
Australian sky watchers will be able to witness the total lunar eclipse provided that there are no weather disturbances and unobstructed views this Tuesday evening, April 15. The Sydney Observatory provided the details as to what time the 2014 Lunar Eclipse will start, end and where.
A technical malfunction at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has triggered the release of some 240 tonnes of radioactive groundwater into a wrong part of the facility.
A popular televangelist linked the April 15 Blood Moon event to the Iranian nuclear threat
While sky gazers eagerly wait to witness the first total lunar eclipse of 2014, many superstitious people are also busy preparing to counter the bad omens and dangers that this celestial event may bring.
A woman who became pregnant after IVF has been found to be carrying the twins of another couple. The clinic in Rome had caused a mix-up with the embryos. According to Italian Health Ministry, it will start an investigation into the rare IVF error. The wrong embryos were only discovered when the woman three months into the pregnancy. The error was made on December 4 when four couples were receiving fertility treatment at the same time in the fertility unit at Rome's Sandro Pertini Hospital.
Chilean President Michelle Bachalet has declared a state of emergency in Valparaiso as a 2-day-old fire continued to ravage the city, killing at least 12 people. Some 2,000 homes have been gutted to the ground. The fires have forced at least 10,000 to flee and evacuate.
After successfully annexing Crimea, Russia is now setting its sights on the moon. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has announced that the Eurasian nation is planning to expand their territory to the moon.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found global carbon emissions have increased faster between the years 2000 and 2010 compared to the last 30 years. The IPCC said attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions continue to fail. One of the authors of the IPCC report said New Zealand is not doing its part to reduce the effects of climate change. According to the country's Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions had increased...
CSIRO is gearing up for a serious budget cut. Australia’s science research agency is already bracing for a likely scenario in which its budget would lose up to $150 million, or more than 20 per cent of its total funding from the government.
Canadians will be feted with a spectacular evening night show as the first of four total lunar eclipses starts on early Tuesday morning.
Solomon Islands has been struck by twin powerful quakes on Sunday. A 7.6 tremor woke the residents of Solomon's capital Honiara early Sunday. The second, also powerful 7.5, struck almost at midnight. Reports of casualties and damages have yet to be made.
Insurance companies are already expecting that damage bill claims from Cyclone Ita could reach $1 billion in North Queensland after it ravaged sugarcane and banana plantations over the weekend. More than 6000 homes and businesses still have yet to get reconnected to the power supply as of Monday.
A proposal from Hong Kong-based Energy World Corporation is sure to invite opposition from green groups and local residents in Queensland because of its probable impact on the environment.
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman had warned residents of the state to stay at home or in local shelters as Cyclone Ita batters Australia. He advised those whose houses were built before 1985 to immediately leave their units and go to local shelters since the homes could possibly not withstand the storm.
More than 9,000 people in north Queensland will be "directly impacted" by tropical cyclone Ita as the weather howler hits land on Friday night. The weather disturbance has been upgraded to the highest category 5 level. Winds strength is expected to reach 285km/h or more. Its speed has likewise increased from 16km/h to 18km/h.
Love may be in outer space. A world brought closer by astronomers. Space doesn't fail to amaze us with its stunning phenomena and objects captured at its best.
Tokyo Electric Power has started pumping radioactive groundwater from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant as a preventive measure to curb further leaks in the facility.
Evacuations have now started in far north Queensland after weather forecasters warned tropical Cyclone Ita has the potential to strengthen further to Category 5 system.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team will be meticulously observing the 2014 Lunar Eclipse on Tuesday, April 15. The total eclipse is expected to be a remarkable display for the viewers in North America.
A look at a new world where ice is as natural as soil has been given importance as NASA IceBridge mission presents the world an array of Greenland's breathtaking view.
A Queensland-based research group found dinosaur footprints that have not been exposed in public before
Financially strapped Tokyo Electric Power Co, operator of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, has been slapped a US$1 billion lawsuit by the 79 US sailors who were the first respondents to the crisis three years ago. The sailors claimed the operator lied about the high level of radiation in the area as they carried out their humanitarian mission.
Different Speculations on intelligent life emerged again after a mystery light on Mars is sighted from the planet's surface through a snapshot of NASA's Curiosity Rover.
