Cities around the world, especially in Northeastern India, will experience intense heat waves that will eventually affect the ability of humans to work or even survive, says a new global study.
The list of new species findings includes Amazon's golden-crowned manakins and ornithologists have the feathers from and genomes to understand the its origin.
While tropical storm Tembin has already left the Southern Philippines, an estimated 23,755 families or 111,641 victims in different parts of the Philippines will extend their stay in evacuation centers.
It was a sunny and cold morning in the national capital on Wednesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 7.6 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season's average.
Christmas tree industry in America costs billions of dollars, although, in this holiday season, the country faced some hiccups in supplying enough number of trees.
A baby gorilla recued from animal traffickers in the Democratic Republic of Congo can be seen laughing and rolling in excitement as the carer tickles her under the armpits.
The United Nations has expressed its willingness to provide support to local emergency operations to victims of tropical storm Tembin that killed 200 people and displacing 70,000 people in Mindanao.
At least 30 people were killed after heavy rains due to tropical storm Tembin lashed southern Philippines, a disaster management official said on Saturday.
A nest of the globally endangered Asian giant softshell turtle was found on a sandbar on the Mekong river in Cambodia, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said.