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Green sea turtles eat more plastic than ever: study Endangered green turtles are ingesting more man-made debris, including potentially lethal plastic products, than ever before.

10 August 2013

Philippine oil spill turns Manila Bay red A diesel oil spill spread a large reddish stain over Manila Bay in the Philippines' capital on Friday, posing potential health and environmental hazards.

10 August 2013

Dolphins remember friends' whistles for decades: study Bottlenose dolphins can remember each other's signature whistles for more than 20 years, a study said Wednesday -- the longest social memory ever observed in an animal.

07 August 2013

Escaped python kills two young children in Canada An escaped python killed two children in their sleep in eastern Canada.

06 August 2013

Shrinking glaciers won't affect South Asia water availability: study Glacier systems that feed two key rivers in South Asia will badly retreat this century, but demands for water are still likely to be met.

06 August 2013

Roots breakthrough for drought-resistant rice Japanese biotechnologists on Sunday said they had developed a rice plant with deeper roots that can sustain high yields in droughts that wipe out conventional rice crops.

05 August 2013

Spain on wildfire alert, central blaze controlled Firefighters brought under control a major forest blaze in central Spain on Friday but the country remained on high alert for fires in the sweltering summer heat.

03 August 2013

50m-wide tornado sighted in Kazakhstan One of the residents of Saryoba village in Akmola Oblast of Kazakhstan has managed to record a video of the huge whirlwind.

31 July 2013

Semey gardeners boast 'no radiation' mutant plants Gardeners of Semey city in Kazakhstan believe that their berries and sunflowers are worthy of the Guinness Book of Records.

31 July 2013

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Pavlodar to get chemical waste dump The chemical wastes dumpsite will open in Pavlodar.

30 July 2013

Locusts may destroy Kazakhstan's harvest in 2014 Aktobe grain farmers forecast a difficult year in 2014 because of the locusts outbreak.

26 July 2013

Hungary offers Kazakhstan to breed rare cattle Hungarian businessmen have suggested breeding rare Hungarian Grey cows in Kazakhstan.

24 July 2013

Major China coal plant drains lake, wells: Greenpeace A major Chinese state-owned coal producer has caused "drastic drops" in groundwater near one of its projects.

23 July 2013

New study ignites debate over Indonesia's mud volcano Scientists on Sunday sparked a fresh debate over what triggered Indonesia's Lusi mud volcano, still spewing truckloads of slime more than seven years after it leapt catastrophically into life.

22 July 2013

US sweats out massive heat wave Clutching water bottles, New Yorkers battled a sweltering heat wave Friday with temperatures topping 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) and intense humidity packing an additional punch.

20 July 2013

Deforestation spikes in Brazil over last year: group Deforestation has soared in the Brazilian Amazon since a new forestry code was passed last year at the urging of the agribusiness lobby.

19 July 2013

Australia pledges more cash for reef starfish battle Australia pledged another Aus$5 million (US$4.6 million) to the fight against a predatory starfish devastating the iconic Great Barrier Reef Thursday, revealing 100,000 of the creatures had been wiped out so far.

18 July 2013

Weird fossil sheds light on dinosaurs' lost continent Palaeontologists in Utah on Wednesday said they had found the fossil of a strange horned dinosaur which roamed an island continent known as Laramidia.

18 July 2013

Revealed: Secret of bees' honeycomb For thousands of years, thinkers have marvelled at the feat of engineering that is the honeycomb.

17 July 2013