SCIENCE

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.

Scientists have discovered the remains of a giant sea creature in the Swiss Alps. The remains of an ichthyosaur which used to have huge teeth were found at an altitude of more than 9,000 feet in Switzerland.

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.

An ultra-rare giant squid, measuring about 9.8ft, washed up at a beach in Japan. The squid was found stranded at Ugu beach in Obama of Fukui Prefecture on Wednesday.

A group of Chinese astronauts returned safely to Earth last week after spending six months on board Tiangong space station. The crew had taken off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert in October last year.

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 US-based wind energy firm has been slapped with $8m fine after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states over the last 10 years.

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.

Massive stone jars that may have been used for ancient human burial practices thousands of years ago have been discovered in the Indian state of Assam.

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.

We must have heard it a million times and have grown up believing that "opposites attract," but various studies carried out by researchers over the years have said that it may not actually be the case anymore

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.

Anthropologist Dr Jesse Casana says that he may have discovered an ancient city and believes that it could be older than the Egyptian pyramids. The area is called Tell Brak and the discovery has been made by analysing images taken by an old spy satellite.

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.

A recent study published in the Journal of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, may have just revealed the secrets related to King Tutankhamun's mysterious dagger that has remained spotless despite being made of iron.

It has been more than a month since astrophysicists have been predicting that a rocket is on a collision course with the moon. Earlier, it was thought be SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster, but recent reports have claimed that it may not be some other rocket.

Archaeologists in London stumbled upon the largest area of Roman mosaic found in the city in more than half a century. The colourful mosaic is believed to have been a floor of a Roman dining room.

Calvin Parker, a 68-year-old man from Pascagoula city in Mississippi, has said that he was warned about Covid-19 and World War Three by aliens 50 years ago.

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

The ranger is reportedly the third victim that was mauled by the same tiger

At warp speed, astronauts may be able to reach other star systems in a shorter period of time.