The largest decline was found in the flat oyster population as out of the 118 reefs identified in historical records and has been located in Georges Bay on the island of Tasmania.
An 8-year-old boy was killed in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday when a wall of an overcrowded temple collapsed during the festival of Maha Shivaratri, police said.
The German government has made a proposal to introduce free public transportation as a radical measure to lower nitrogen oxide pollution in cities.
An international team of scientists is all set to start an "urgent mission" to investigate a mysterious underwater world.
New research forecasts a 15 per cent drop in the average number of lightning flashes worldwide by the turn of this century.
An asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago may have possibly triggered a worldwide release of volcanic magma that could have sealed the fate of the dinosaurs.
A passenger plane with 71 people on board crashed shortly after leaving Moscow, with no hope of survival of the crew and passengers.
Search and rescue teams in Taiwan pulled out two bodies of five members of a Chinese family who remain trapped after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the city of Hualien in Taiwan.
Authorities have provided aid and shelter to the displaced people while the families of the victims have been given compensation.
Scientists from Britain and China have solved the mystery of flowers of what Charles Darwin called it "abominable mystery".
A view shows peniche houseboats moored and the Eiffel Tower along the flooded banks of the River Seine after days of almost non-stop rain caused flooding in the country in Paris, France on Jan 26.
Mount Mayon, Philippines, has started showing signs of an imminent eruption, as it spewed fountains of lava and massive ash plumes on Monday night and even on Tuesday morning.
The statutory board of the government of Singapore, according to reports, aims at restoring the heritage of the area with this.
Scientists have excavated one of the largest fossil relics with more than 70 footprints of dinosaurs and Cretaceous era mammals from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA.
Hong Kong will aim at slowly phasing out ivory sales and completely eradicating it by 2021.