Five people are killed and at least 40 missing on the Yemeni island of Socotra as Cyclone Mekunu pummelled the area before making its way to the Arabian Peninsula's southern coast.

Summers in Bangladesh are usually unforgiving as the mercury keeps on rising throughout the season, but not this time. This year, the summer is unusual, with relentless rains and thunderstorms dominating most part of the season from March to April.

A SpaceX rocket blasts off a duo of sports car-sized satellites built by the US and Germany to reveal changes in sea level rise, ice melt and drought on Earth.

A dead whale is washed ashore along Kuakata beach in Patuakhali.

Volcanic activity from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano pauses on Tuesday, authorities says, while warning that more outbreaks should be anticipated.

Chinese scientists have come up with a new membrane material which can efficiently separate salt from water and has other water purification functions.

A series of fresh earthquakes, including a powerful magnitude 6.9, hit Hawaii's Big Island, where the Kilauea volcano has been spewing fountains of lava into residential areas and forcing hundreds to evacuate.

Lightning strikes and powerful dust storms across India kills at least 116 people and injures more than 250 as meteorologists warned of more wild weather on the horizon.

Nine out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants, shows new data from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).

Measures taken timely can save many lives during a lightning storm. But it is very tough to recall the tips in the face of trouble therefore we need to drill ourselves to get familiar to these measures.

The world's second largest Banyan tree in Mahabubnagar district of India’s Telangana which is almost dying, is on ‘saline drip’ now as part of the rejuvenation.

Environmentalists demand exemplary punishment for the people who are violating the law banning production and use of polythene.

A government scientist says that no harmful element has been found in the waters of Passur river at Harbaria point where a coal-laden vessel sank in the Sundarbans last Sunday.

Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge if a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a harmful rise in global temperatures.

How do bowhead whales in the unbroken darkness of the Arctic's polar winter keep busy during breeding season?

Scientists are puzzled by a video showing an elephant apparently smoking.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges all concerned to create reservoirs to harvest rainwater during monsoon to utilise it for the development of the country.

Scientists will publish the first-ever analysis of the global state of land and its ability to sustain a fast-growing human population that relies on it for 95 percent of all food.

Human activity has driven animals and plants into decline in every region of the world, putting our own well-being at risk by over-harvesting and polluting, a comprehensive species survey warns.

The US East’s fourth major snowstorm this month brings heavy snow, snarling flights and commuter travel, closing schools and triggering emergency declarations in several states.