Environment

China's Rare Brown Panda Turns 5, Goes Viral on Social Media

Only five brown pandas have been sighted in the past three decades

Aug 21, 2015

Lightning strikes Delta Boeing 737 plane at Atlanta airport

Amateur footage shows Delta plane struck by lightning whilst grounded at airport.

Aug 20, 2015

Mexico: Drones to be deployed to curb poaching spree of turtle eggs

Authorities in Mexico will deploy drones on south-western beaches in Oaxaca to protect against a reported surge in turtle egg poaching of the threatened Olive Ridley turtle, which return to the countrys coast each year to lay their eggs in the sand.

Aug 20, 2015

Germany: 500,000 ants protests to save the Amazon rainforest

Some half a million ants were recruited by the conservation organisation World Wildlife Fund (WFF) to call for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, ahead of a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Brazil.

Aug 19, 2015

New York City: The Fierce 'Maa Kali' Lights Up Empire State Building [PHOTOS+VIDEO]

Pictures of several endangered animals were projected on the skyscraper before the fierce digital images of Goddess Kali appeared on the facade

Aug 10, 2015

London Zoo: New Komodo dragon unveiled for Land of the Giants exhibition

Ganas the Komodo dragon becomes London Zoos latest addition.

Aug 6, 2015

Obama says no challenge greater threat to US future than climate change

President Barack Obama formally unveils his administrations ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants and declares climate change the greatest threat facing the world.

Aug 4, 2015

Portland: Activists removed from kayaks trying to block Shell icebreaker

Greenpeace protesters dangling from a bridge in Portland, Oregon, on 31 July failed to prevent an icebreaker from passing through en route to the Arctic.

Jul 31, 2015

Cyclone Komen to Bring Heavy Rains in West Bengal

Heavy rains have also been predicted at isolated places in Bihar, Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal.

Jul 30, 2015

Guinness World Records crowns 37-year-old Jia Jia the worlds oldest panda

A female giant panda at a Hong Kong zoo by the name of Jia Jia, who is approaching her 37th birthday, broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest panda ever in captivity and the oldest panda living in captivity on 28 July.

Jul 28, 2015

China's Biggest Solar Plant Coming up in Gobi Desert

The new solar plant will come up in Gobi Desert and will be spread across 26 km.

Jul 24, 2015

CO2 opalescent pools found at site of volcanic eruption that wiped out Minoan civilization

Pools full of carbon dioxide off coast of Santorini could pave way to monitor future eruptions.

Jul 17, 2015

Polar bears cannot compensate for sea ice loss starvation with slowed metabolism

Polar bears do not enter walking hibernation to make up for food deprivation during summer.

Jul 16, 2015

UK: 50 sharks spotted swimming along Sussex coast

Video shows massive shiver of sharks swimming in shallow intertidal waters in West Sussex.