SYDNEY, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Australia's southeast sweated in a heatwave that intensified on Sunday, elevating bushfire risk and prompting authorities to issue fire bans for more parts of Victoria state.

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A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds ... from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in ...

Here, the stark contrast in temperature and salinity (saltiness) fuels a cascade powerful enough to move colossal volumes of water across the ocean floor. And yet, despite this massive scale, the ...

Credit: Christoph Hormann / CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers have discovered a major shift happening in Africa. Forces deep inside the Earth make Africa split apart and create a pathway for a new ocean to ...

This is Whittier, Alaska, home to all 263 residents and the ... Winters are cold but moderated by the ocean, while summers are cool and ideal for outdoor activities like hiking, kayaking, and ...

Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas getaways, a mighty force rattled the depths of the ocean floor ...

On May 29, 2018, Ocean Infinity concluded its unsuccessful search for MH370, after having searched 112,000 square kilometres of the ocean floor in more than three months or 90 operational days. The ...

Meanwhile, in a suburb in Kuala Lumpur, a migrant worker from Myanmar who only wanted to be known as Kyaw cleans tables and sweeps the floor of a ... East Asia and Southeast Asia, these salaries ...

The ocean floor opened at least 1,200 kilometers (750 ... an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. A total of 226,408 people ...

An innovative research method helps discover sea lion behaviours and maps ocean habitats. Video by Ellenoor Shameli Investment Strategist Edward Yardeni says Trump's threat of 25 percent ...