ENVIRONMENT

A 13-foot-long and 300 kg (661 lb) stingray caught by a fisherman in the Mekong River of Cambodia is the world's largest recorded freshwater fish,

The impacts of global warming may force Nepal to move the Mount Everest base camp from its original position and to a lower altitude.

People living in the coastal towns of the UK may have to eventually leave their homes and relocate due to rising sea levels and erosion.

Brazilian authorities have launched a search operation for British Journalist Don Philip and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of comparing climate activists to Nazis after a group of them interrupted his speech.

A pregnant Sumatran elephant was found dead of suspected poisoning in Indonesia's Riau province.

A report by wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has warned that 24 species of butterflies found in Britain may soon disappear.

The floods have been wreaking havoc in the Indian state of Assam with at least eleven people having lost their lives in various flood-related incidents so far.

A study published in The Lancet has revealed that pollution caused more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, the highest number reported from any country.

Several reports have suggested that the insect population is on a decline worldwide which could lead to a collapse of ecosystems.

The scorching heatwave that has swept India is not only affecting humans but is also proving deadly for animals. The animal rescuers in the Indian state of Gujarat have come across dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping every day in the last few weeks.

A new report by the US government's Drought Monitor has revealed that the water levels in California's two biggest reservoirs have dropped to "critically low levels."

The land area cleared of trees in Brazil's Amazon rainforest last month was the biggest since the authorities started to keep a track of the same in 2015.

Almost all metropolitan cities across the world have begun to feel the impacts of climate change, and authorities are now resorting to strict measures to undo years of damage.

Several parts of India have been grappling with an intense heatwave as the country experiences one of the hottest summers this year. According to experts, the temperatures are expected to only increase during the next few days.

Scores of headless penguin bodies washed up on beaches surrounding Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula in the month of April, leaving scientists and researchers shocked.

A massive fire broke out at Bhalswa landfill site in India's national capital New Delhi on Tuesday and continues to burn even now. This is not the first time that the infamous mountainous garbage dump caught fire releasing toxic smoke.

A petrol tanker washed ashore on a beach in front of the Durban Country Club in KwaZulu-Natal province on Tuesday morning after unprecedented floods hit parts of South Africa's south-eastern coast.

At least 53 people have died so far in landslides and floods in the Philippines after Tropical Storm Megi hit the country on Sunday. The death toll is only expected to increase in various flood-related incidents.

A study by researchers from the UK has found microplastics for the first time deep in the lungs of living people. The tiny particles were found in 11 of the 13 samples tested for their presence.

Ukrainian officials have claimed that more than 10,000 hectares of forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been set ablaze due to active fighting between Russia and Ukraine.

As many as four million people in Somalia face the risk of starvation and the situation is only deteriorating as the country faced its third consecutive dry season, the United Nations' climate report has warned.

Octopuses generally use seashells to hide, but a recent study has found out that the species is increasingly making use of the litter found on the ocean floor to make shelters for themselves.

Torrential rain and subsequent floods caused Sydney Harbour's shimmering blue waters to turn muddy brown. The change was caused by overflowing wastewater systems and stormwater carrying soil and debris into the harbour.

The trade sanctions imposed by western nations along with the European Union on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have meant that one of the biggest oil and gas exporters is now left with additional stocks of the two resources with nowhere to send them to.

A study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US, has found that turtles experience a temporary hearing loss due to underwater noise pollution caused by activities such as shipping.

We have heard of humans being put on special diet regimes to help them lose weight, but a zoo in Taiwan's Taipei has had to put two pandas on a strict diet because they have become obese.

The Indonesian man eaten alive by a 13-foot-long crocodile while bathing in river

Many villages had only been saved because young people had ignored evacuation orders and stayed on to keep the fires away from their homes, he added.