ENVIRONMENT

'Sinking' Pacific nation Tuvalu appears to be growing, according to a University of Auckland study examining geography of 101 reef islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The research, which involved more than 34,000 people, is the first to examine the environmental impacts of both diet and farm production systems.

People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.

Researchers observed over a hundred egg casings of the creatures near volcanic vents spewing out water heated at several hundred degrees.

Researchers say that a stellar event known as a grand minimum will likely take place in the near future, causing our star to give off less radiation.

Scandinavian method of recycling pay-as-you-use bottles could soon come to the UK as means to dent plastics mountain.

Environmental watchdog boss Scott Pruitt overturns conventional wisdom to ask if global warming might be beneficial to humans.

The new findings of the ozone layer come after Nasa announced that the efforts of the Montreal Protocol had actually worked.

Livestock raised for foods in the US contains five times the level of antibiotics than animals in Britain.

The field was expelled in the same month as the record-breaking flare shot out of the Sun.

Photos show buildings in Hualien leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, shattered glass and bent iron beams.

Research may explain why genetically identical viruses are often found in very different environments around the globe.

Melting ice could release thousands of gallons of mercury into the ecosystem and scientists are not sure what would happen if it does.

Torrential rains have caused havoc in Jakarta and neighbouring West Java, as flooding and landslides have killed at least five people.

The ash spewing from the volcano could be the key to cooling down our planet and prevent our ozone layer from being damaged.

Scientists believe that around 12,800 years ago, the Earth was hit by fragments of a dying comet, measured around 100km in diameter.

"Oklahoma has been transformed from a seismic dead zone to a hotspot in less than a decade," according to a University of Southampton academic.

Day Zero - the day when Cape Town, South Africa could be the world's first major city to run out of water - is approaching.

The Earth experienced a geological lull, almost like a mid-life crisis during the Palaeoproterozoic geologic era.

Scientists melted a tiny bore hole through 300 metres of ice in a slowly yet constantly moving Antarctic ice shelf.

Earth's magnetic field is crucial to the survival of life on our planet as it deflects damaging cosmic rays and solar winds.

Scientists found that green sea turtles are spending more time looking for food and eating in offshore waters, increasing the risk of ending up as fishing bycatch.

Cape Town is in the grips of a drought so severe that it is projected to run out of water on 12 April, becoming the world's first major city to run dry

"This amount of stupidity is very dangerous," one person tweeted.

One of the world's oldest gorillas in captivity has died at San Diego Safari Park zoo. The gorilla named Vila was the matriarch of five generations.

China has announced plans to develop a "Polar Silk Road" to take advantage of new shipping routes created as climate change and rising temperatures cause Arctic ice to melt.

The massive backup battery recently responded to a crisis at a power plant in milliseconds – setting a record in delivering clean energy.

These particles, known as aerosols, are the result of urban and industrial pollution, wildfires and other sources.

Reefs are crucial to the health of the marine ecosystem which humans rely on, but they are dying around the globe.