NATURE

Hippos and crocodiles have attacked and killed people living in counties close to Lake Victoria.

Two inebriated pachyderms were photographed snoozing in a tea garden after a wild bender.

The population of rare white giraffes has been reduced to a single male after a mother and calf were killed in Kenya.

These microbes were reportedly discovered more than three decades ago, along the shores of the Potomac River.

Forest officers found the partially eaten corpse of a 5-year-old boy who was reported missing, a lioness with two cubs is suspected to be the killer.

Finnish hobbyists accidentally discover new types of the aurora that resemble dunes on sandy beaches.

These might be one of the youngest sharks to evolve.

A coyote that had attacked a woman and her dogs was strangled to death by a man when it tried to snatch his son.

Researchers have recorded plants emitting distress sounds when the stem is cut or when the plant is deprived of water.

Researches have concluded that attaching LED lights to fishing nets can prevent turtles, dolphins, and marine birds from getting trapped in fishing nets.

Food and water scarcity caused by drought has resulted in an increase in human-animal conflict in Zambia.

Bushfires have devastated koala habitats and breeding populations to the extent where researchers believe that the species can be termed as "functionally extinct".

Hundreds of koala bears perished in Australia due to bushfires.

While snorkelling off Australia's Whitsunday coast, two British men were attacked by a shark.

Protected nesting site Mullion Island is littered with elastic bands as sea-gulls mistake them for worms.

Steve Irwin's family has fulfilled his wish of opening an elephant hospital in Indonesia to help conserve endangered Sumatran elephants.

Hurricane Dorian continues the north bound journey along the US east coast, death toll rises in the Bahamas.

Hurricane Dorian has weakened to become a category 3 storm and has stalled in the north of the Bahamas.

There are reports of casualties and damage caused by Hurricane Dorian as storm heads away from the Bahamas.

African elephants can no longer be taken from the wild to be sold to zoos and circuses due to a new CITES law.

18th CITES Conference, Geneva: A two-thirds majority vote was able to to regulate the trade of 18 species of sharks and rays, including Mako sharks.

More than 170 countries are at risk of facing floods, according to the study.

A volcano in Kuchinoerabu Island in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan has erupted.

Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic and a mosque among the buildings damaged.

Researchers spotted tell-tale poop stains in Nasa's existing satellite imagery of the Danger Islands, which led the incredible discovery.

Giant 'mega-colonies' of penguins have been discovered among the remote islands of Antarctica, easing fears their numbers had been in decline for decades due to climate change.

A team of researchers from Harvard University is close to reviving an extinct bird after recreating a near-complete genome of the little bush moa.

Tardigrades are highly resilient creatures are believed to be capable of surviving intense radiation and the vacuum of space.

"There's not much hope in the future", for these penguins, say researchers.