These images show how the devastating double earthquake in Turkey split an 80-year-old olive tree clean down the middle. The tree's two halves were left standing 15 metres (16 yards)…
Human activities rather than climate change are having a more devastating effect on mollusk communities according to new research. An analysis of more than 70,000 fossils indicates that mollusk communities…
Climate change has caused the Greenland ice sheet to lose 4,700 billion tonnes of ice over the last 20 years, enough to submerge the USA in half a metre of…
Cops in Brazil are investigating a dentist for deforming the faces of at least 18 patients with devastating consequences including lost jobs, marriage breakup and ultimately depression. Giselle de Souza…
Conservationists fear Italian hunters have been heading out in record numbers to shoot migrating birds because of the coronavirus restrictions that force them to social distance, which has had a…
Dolphin carcasses are washing up on Mauritius after the MV Wakashio was sunk off its coast following a devastating oil spill that threatens the island's numerous critically endangered species and…
This time-lapse footage shows an endangered leopard cub fleeing from a devastating bush fire at the last second. The incident was filmed by a hidden camera in the Land of…
This statue of the Japanese god of fortune - who is also the patron of fishermen - has been found on the seabed and lifted out of the ocean after…
This is the moment an overturned motorcycle taxi is swept along a flooded street caused by a devastating period of heavy rainfall and flash floods in Peru. The incident took…
The mayor of the Albanian city of Durres has resigned after commenting that she is “pleased with 50 victims” from last week’s devastating earthquake. Reports said that the death toll…