The global populace, most specially those living along the world's coastal cities, either pack up and relocate to high grounds as early as now or accept their fate as the intensity of floods currently lapping the Earth will get more severe and damaging in the coming years.
The Sakurajima volcano in southwestern Japan erupted on Sunday afternoon, spewing ashes 5 kilometres up in the air. As a result, railway operators stopped their service in Kagoshima City temporarily while the ash is being removed.
The Philippine government was forced to suspend offices and classes in 14 provinces, including in the capital Metro Manila, as tropical storm Maring (international name: Trami) maintained its strength and continued to enhance the southwest monsoon early Monday. The state forecasting weather agency has advised the 14 provinces to brace for severe flooding.
A Yemeni wedding party on Saturday turned into a disaster after floods inundated southern Yemen, causing the death of 27 people and 41 more lost when the vehicle with the wedding party was swept away. The vehicles were driving across Wadi Nakhla, a valley flooded by the monsoon rains, between Taiz City and Ibb province.
Some Ontario residents, it seems, have a love affair with deadly pythons. Just two weeks after an African rock python killed two boys in New Brunswick, 40 pythons were found in a Brantford motel on Thursday evening.
Monash University biomedical scientist contributes to search for HIV/AIDS cure using a novel strategy of the immune system to eliminate infected cells of patients.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. on Thursday slammed an order issued by the government of Canada's Quebec stating it has been included among a list of companies financially accountable for the cleanup of Lac-Megantic town which was severely devastated in a train derailment disaster in July.
Do you want to make more money? Then have sex four times a week, a German study recommends.
Witness Mario Vallejo shared his UFO sighting experience through a captured video on the alien watch site Lasest-UFO-Sightings.net as well as YouTube. Mr Vallejo spotted a mysterious fuzzy white orb on Saturday, August 10, traveling across the skies of San Antonio, Texas.
An herbal concoction reported in Malawi, Africa, claimed to be effective in curing AIDS infection and has saved more than 10,000 victims. Businesspeople, government employees and foreign tourists are lining up for the said treatment.
Lead researcher in Sydney’s University of NSW Peter Gunning said the new cancer drug they developed caused the collapse of the cancer cell at a relatively fast pace. Mr. Gunning likened the destruction of the cancer cell to that of a building collapsing as shown in television news reports.
There is another lightning strike that hit the Odakyu Electric Railway train on Monday evening. The Telegraph said the train, which was travelling from the Izumi-Tamagaw Station to the Noborito Station, was running on a railway bridge when the lightning hit it.
In a desperate bid to find a cure for many grave ailments, a growing number of Chinese residents are turning to another panacea - bee sting - the latest quack miracle cure which is attracting crowds to acupuncture clinics that offer the treatment.
Unless China radically implements measures and steps to salvage what remains of its environment, it may have to expect and get used to dwindling tourist numbers.
Rare brain-eating amoeba infected a 12-year-old boy from Florida
Governments, universities, research institutes and pharmaceutical companies have spent billions upon billions to find a cure to HIV/AIDS. Even a vaccine for HIV seems to be unrealistic as of this time which could be worst for AIDS victims. Will this new gel Unipron help stop HIV infection in women?
With man's never-ending fascination with travelling into outer space, one company has found an interesting albeit morbid way to make space travel possible for less than $2,000. New start-up company Elysium Space is currently accepting orders to send a person's cremated remains or ashes into orbit. Dubbed by the company as a "memorial spaceflight", the first space burial will be launched from Cape Canaveral in the U.S. state of Florida.
The 2013 Perseid meteor shower has astounded numerous sky gazers from around the world during its peak activity on August 11 and 12. The weekend may have offered a good meteor shower display for many witnesses who were able to capture images and share their viewing experience but the Perseid meteor shower is predicted to continue lighting up the night skies until it fades out on August 24.
As Google’s usual way of paying tribute to special events and memorable people through their Google Doodles, the Google homepage this time features the popular Austrian physicist, Erwin Schrodinger.
An American family that was driving on Saturday in Utah had a unique experience that its passengers would never forget. They filmed lightning striking their vehicle.
Head transplants have been the stuff of Science fiction and horror films. The Frankenstein legend –in which a complete human being is constructed by sewing altered body parts together can now be a clinical reality, claims a Neuroscientist.
Workers of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have alleged its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have been lying about the true state of meltdown crisis in the facility.
HIV/AIDS has infected more than 34 million people worldwide in 2011 and 3.4 million are less than 15 years of age. HIV/AIDS is a pandemic and continues to spread without any guarantee of cure or vaccine at this time. Know the ways to protect yourself and help stop HIV spread to others.
Sky watchers have another option in viewing the 2013 Perseid meteor shower during its August 11 and 12 peak activities in case of bad weather condition, clouds obstructing the view or the night skies polluted with bright lights. Live coverage on the meteor shower will be available online at SPACE.com courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Slooh Space Camera.
People who are still undecided if they want to join the Mars One Project should perhaps drop the idea, unless a spacecraft large enough to accommodate so many people has been inventted.
Skinny dipping has its risk, several South American fishermen have discovered after their testicles were attacked by the pacu fish, a relative of the piranha.
Mount Rokatenda in the East NusaTenggara province of Indonesia erupted on Saturday morning, killing 6 sleeping people and causing 3,000 residents to flee Palue Island, the country's National Disaster Mitigation Agency reported.
After 62 years, researchers finally asked Henrietta Lacks' family for consent to use her cancer cells for study. Is this a brand new angle for HIV cure research or another method for new discoveries on medical treatment?
The excitement for the 2013 Perseid meteor shower display mounts up as the peak activity dates of August 11 and 12 approaches. Viewers must be able to stay up all night until dawn in order to witness one of the best light shows this years producing over 50 meteors per hour as well as fireballs.
Can this pink planet called GJ 504b render a new and exciting color to our solar system?
