Oceanography
Diving, catching giant grouper twice as big
A Florida firefighter who joined the local fishing competition was surprised to find a giant grouper.
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Oceanography
Watch out for severe burns from rocks from the beach
California firefighters say a 43-year-old woman has suffered severe burns caused by stones in pants pockets picked up from Southern California beaches during a family va…
Biology
Bacteria destroy themselves to ... survive
Like firefighters fighting the fire, researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have discovered a way to deceive bacterial…
Animal world
Search for landmarks nearly 5 meters long on the banks of the Polish river
A group of 80 volunteers, police, firefighters, 4 unmanned aerial vehicles and 4 ships are scouring the banks of the Vistula River, south of Warsaw, Poland, to find a 4.…
Animal world
Python 4.2 m long lurking in fruit orchards in China
A large python was discovered while hiding in the orchard in southwestern Panzhihua city of Sichuan province, China.
Environment
At least 63 people died, more than 600 people were missing in the forest fire disaster in the United States
California's largest forest fire is still out of control, while rescue teams continue to find more bodies, bringing the death toll to 63 victims and more than 630 people…
Environment
The 9km-tall apocalypse appears on
Local people associate the giant cloud with the orange sky with a nuclear explosion.
Environment
California sinks in 'hell fire'
The governor of California - USA has declared a state of emergency after thousands of people have to leave their homes because wildfires are spreading rapidly in the nor…
Environment
Heavy rain in the Far East engulfed 9,500 houses
The situation of floods in Khabarovsk, Russia continues to be complicated. The Amur River water level on August 28 rose to 741cm, rising 6cm higher only one day and nigh…
Environment
Australia struggles to cope with erratic weather
Victoria continues to be the focus of intense forest fires. Firefighters in this state are constantly put on alert when the temperature rises to 37 degrees Celsius causi…
Environment
Thousands of Germans evacuated for poisonous clouds
More than 2,000 people in northern Germany were evacuated after poisoning a poison from a factory into the environment.
Environment
Large fires burned 1,500 hectares of forests in Chile
Chilean authorities on December 29 said a massive fire destroyed and damaged 1,500 hectares of forest in the Patagonia nature reserve in the south of the country, leavin…
Environment
Forest fires spread beyond control in the UK
The hot and dry weather during April, coupled with strong winds that caused many wildfires in the UK stretching from England, Northern Ireland to Scotland, forced the fi…
Environment
America: Forest fire burns 136 houses
Big fire in the area around Fourmile gorge, near the town of Boulder, Colorado, USA, burned at least 136 houses. This is the most devastating fire in this state's histor…
Environment
Tsunami flattens a Chilean town
Some of Chile's coastal areas were engulfed in a tsunami after a violent seismic last weekend.