ENVIRONMENT

Nasa's images shared on Instagram offer a bird's eye view of what is happening in some parts of the country.

The death toll from the mudslides that swept through Santa Barbara county is expected to rise as rescue workers search for an unknown number people still unaccounted for.

Warm ocean waters and rising CO2 levels are likely to disturb the food chain.

Dutch start-up Lightyear has designed a solar-powered car prototype which can be driven for months without charging.

Around 13,000 tourists have become stranded by heavy snow in Zermatt, at the foot of Switzerland's famous Matterhorn.

Sand dunes in the Algerian town of Ain Sefra were blanketed by a 16-inch thick layer of snow. This was only the third snowfall to be recorded in the town.

More than 99% of green sea turtles coming from the northern Great Barrier Reef are females, study finds.

Global warming and changing climate have expanded regions in the ocean that have zero oxygen by four times. In coastal waters it has gone up ten-fold since 1950.

Scientists found that while in the Arctic region the sinking was over 1mm a year, in the south Pacific it was 0.4mm a year.

Hundreds of inhabitants of the island, which is on the northeast of Papua New Guinea, have been evacuated.

30 years ago, the Montreal Protocol was agreed to regulate the use of chemicals that deplete the ozone - a layer of the atmosphere which shields the Earth from harmful UV rays.

As the US east coast battles Storm Grayson and a "bomb cyclone," Victoria in Australia has seen a 10km stretch of Hume Freeway begin melting - with higher temperatures to come.

Britain throws away 500,000 coffee cups each day but only one in 400 cups are recycled. MPs call for 25p charge on takeaway coffee cups to be introduced to fight waste.

The latest photos of the massive winter storm barrelling into the northeastern US, as a rapid plunge in barometric pressure causes bombogenesis or a "bomb cyclone".

Michael Gove set to tell farmers the current subsidy scheme will be replaced by a pro-environment system.

After battering Britain and Ireland, Storm Eleanor slammed into western Europe, derailing trains, toppling trees and halting flights.

People have been prohibited from going within 8km of Mount Agung's volcano crater ever since it erupted in November 2017.

Extreme cold weather has caused parts of the Niagara Falls to freeze as a massive winter storm, followed by possible record-breaking cold, moves up the eastern US.

A new study claims that global warming not only destroys the planet, it also hurts people's earning capacity in future.

The bone-chillingly cold temperatures have frozen parts of Niagara Falls and caused a mile-long pile-up on Interstate 90 near Buffalo, New York.

Storm Eleanor is battering Britain with 80mph winds and there are warnings that there could be a threat to life as the bad weather gathers pace.

Temperatures at Calgary Zoo plummeted to an average of -28 degrees Celsius during the recent cold snap.

"All the indicators are that we could be looking at a chocolate deficit of 100,000 tonnes a year in the next few years," researcher Doug Hawkins said.

A record-breaking arctic freeze has frozen the iconic Niagara falls, with tourists posting jaw-dropping photos of the falls on social media.

Across the northern hemisphere a few brave (or foolhardy) souls celebrated the festive season by diving into frozen lakes or paddling in frigid oceans.

According to Unesco, World Heritage coral reefs could become extinct by 2,100 if CO2 emissions are not controlled.

"Lots of people would crumble well before you reach wet-bulb temperatures of 32 C, or anything close," says climate scientist.

In 10,000 years, if humans survive, there will be no genetic differences in our makeup and we will be evenly distributed throughout the planet.

After breaking off, the iceberg, dubbed B-44, covered a 100-square-mile area and was found to be highly unstable.