While great whites haunt the deep, walking sharks are content to scuttle in the shallows

The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California's coast remains critically low for the second year in a row

Canberra and the cities of Sydney and Melbourne experienced air quality rated among the worst in the world under thick clouds of bushfire smoke

Bangkok, the world’s most visited city, saw levels of PM 2.5 particles at 78.3 pg/m3. A level above 35 is considered unhealthy, according to independent air quality monitor AirVisual

The poll found that 41 percent of voters put "the environment" in their top three - up 10 percentage points since last month

The study marks the first time that the Yarrabubba crater has been precisely dated, at 2.229 billion years old, and means it is 200 million years older than any similar site known on Earth

A dinosaur fossil found in northeastern China has been identified as a new species of tiny, winged and feathered dinosaurs 

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday slammed global inaction on climate change in front of…

Delhi is the 10th-most polluted city in India

The landmark ruling centres on the case of Ioane Teitiota, whose home - the Pacific Island of Kiribati - is threatened by rising sea levels

A leopard that ran into a house and sparked a frantic search and a frenzy of attention in southern India on Monday

Speakers noted that the temperature of the capital is comparatively higher than other parts of the country which is affecting the city life and natural ecosystem

Among the seven Central departments reviewed, the Survey of India has got the top billing followed by the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) and Central Water Commission

The Chinese leader's two-day state visit to Myanmar's purpose-built capital comes as Western investors cast a wide berth around the country due to the Rohingya crisis

Forests and farming land were already extremely dry due to a prolonged drought, providing the foundations for the fire crisis when extreme hot weather hit well before the southern summer

Oceans absorb more than 90 percent of excess heat created by greenhouse gas emissions and quantifying how much they have warmed up in recent years gives scientists an accurate read on the rate of global warming

Scientists have discovered the secret of how the ginkgo tree can live for more than 1,000 years

The goal is to help people keep track of their plastic wastes and raise awareness about their harmful impact on the environment

These activities will be conducted in close partnership with the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, Department of Disaster Management, local government, and national and international technical institutes

India has seen a construction boom in recent years but developers have often ridden roughshod over safety and other regulations, with the connivance of local officials

The famous giant tortoise, Diego, will return home in the Galapagos islands after it fathered hundreds of babies in a captive breeding program

Temperatures soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of New South Wales and neighbouring Victoria, where attention was focused on the two fires that linked to form yet another monster blaze of more than 600,000 hectares

Since the penumbra is much fainter than the dark core of the Earth’s shadow, the umbra, a penumbral eclipse of the Moon is often difficult to tell apart from a normal Full Moon

As deadly blazes tear across southeastern Australia, false or deliberately misleading images and claims have proliferated online

Lunar eclipses are much more common than solar eclipses, but are still a sight to behold

The months-long fires have killed at least 25 people and millions of animals, and destroyed more than 2,000 houses

A zookeeper says Australia’s bushfire will have lasting impact on wild life and biodiversity

More than 25,000 koalas are believed to have died in the devastating bushfire crisis of Australia. According to The Telegraph

Firefighters joined by fresh teams from the US and Canada were taking advantage of rainy and cooler conditions to tackle out-of-control blazes ahead of rising temperatures forecast later this week

Big natural disasters can create their own weather systems. The Australian bushfires are now so intense that they’re starting to make thunderstorms

Devastating wildfires over recent days have undone decades of careful conservation work on Kangaroo Island and have threatened to wipe out some of the island's unique fauna altogether

Hundreds of properties are destroyed and one man died trying to save a friend’s home in the severe conditions — among the worst in Australia’s months-long bushfire crisis

The flower’s bloom will only last about one week before it will wither and rot

A great white shark found dead on a beach had reportedly been kicked in the face by a gang of men

Almost five percent of the 169,000 hectares (650 square miles) of illegal coca plantations are in protected areas

The highest temperature of 19C (66F) - more than 25C above the monthly average - was measured in the village of Sunndalsora

A tiny spark in the UK’s hydrogen revolution has been lit – at a university campus near Stoke-on-Trent

Pima County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday it had found human remains at Pima Canyon Trail in the hills north of Tucson

 Fire ripped through the monkey house at Krefeld zoo in northwestern Germany on New Year’s Eve killing dozens of animals