SCIENCE

Through blistering heatwaves and drought that have parched the French countryside in recent weeks, one group has emerged a reluctant winner: salt farmers in the northwestern region of Guerande.

The moon's bright light will overpower the meteors' shine and stargazers should expect to see 10-20 meteors per hour at best, unlike last year.

Heatwaves sweeping Europe this summer have brought not just record high temperatures and scorched fields: the drought-stricken waters of Italy's River Po are running so low they revealed a previously submerged World War Two bomb.

Asteroid 2022 OE2 is part of the Apollo group of asteroids and is classified as a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA).

South East Water has announced a hosepipe ban for Kent and Sussex which will come into effect from August 12.

Ceres is now being considered a chemical factory and a bona fide target for astrobiologists hunting for life beyond Earth.

The heatwave coupled with dry weather conditions has dried up the Thames River near its official start point in Gloucester.

A huge fire broke out Thursday in a popular forest in western Berlin next to a police munitions storage site

Curious onlookers made their way Thursday to the site of a volcano erupting near Iceland's capital Reykjavik to marvel at the bubbling lava.

This occurrence could signal the beginning of a period of shorter days on Earth.

Farmers in Tuscany are battling to salvage as much as they can of this year's crop from the ravages of drought and heatwave.

A Polish scientific institute has classified domestic cats as an "alien invasive species."

The asteroid is predicted to come Thursday within around 3.2 million miles of Earth in its own orbit around the sun.

The whole of England recorded an average of 23.1 mm of rain -- the lowest figure for the month since 1935 and the seventh lowest July total on record.

Scientists may have just found the cure for baldness by identifying the chemical that affects hair growth.

A lack of snow during winter has left glaciers at high altitude exposed and riddled with cracks

A diner at a restaurant in the Sichuan province of China has accidentally helped palaeontologists unearth 100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints.

The heatwave which scorched Britain last week was made at least 10 times more likely because of climate change, scientists reported Thursday.

A deadly virus has swept through Zurich's zoo, killing three Asian elephants in a month and leaving experts stumped as to how to stop its spread.

The annual study also found that Britain has warmed at a broadly consistent but "slightly higher" rate than global mean temperature rises.

A new study has indicated that kissing may have led to the spread of the cold-sore virus, which now affects almost 4 billion people across the world.

Russian space officials have informed their U.S. counterparts that Moscow would like to keep flying its cosmonauts on the International Space Station at least until their own orbital outpost is built, a senior NASA official told Reuters on Wednesday.

A severe drought gripping much of Spain threatens to shrivel their harvest this year.

A 170 carat pink diamond -- dubbed The Lulo Rose -- was discovered at Lulo mine in the country's diamond-rich northeast.

Piles of discarded unwanted clothes have been washing up on the beaches of Accra, creating an environmental catastrophe.

The authorities in the UK have urged people to limit their water usage as the country faces its driest weather since 1976.

The unprecedented heatwave in Europe has pushed the freezing point in Switzerland way above its highest summits.

A chemical called "6PPD-quinone" has been responsible for killing salmon in urban streams.

Swarms of jellyfish have inundated Israel's Mediterranean coast forcing bathers to stay as far away from the beaches