OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research firm backed by Tesla Motors Inc's (TSLA.O) Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives, has signed an agreement to run most of its large-scale experiments on Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) flagship cloud service, Azure.

Athletes and eco-activists swam across the Dead Sea on Tuesday, the first people to thrash their way over a body of water so salty that it poisons anyone who drinks it.

In the recent past, Bangladesh has not suffered any damaging large earthquakes, but in the past few hundred years, several large catastrophic earthquakes struck this area.

Global carbon emissions are still on the rise, but they are growing slower than they have in the past, according to a study.

Air quality has fallen to levels not seen in two decades amid calls for authorities to take urgent action.

We all love to have a ride every now and then. We all have seen the fascination of babies for having bike rides and all.

At least 76 tiger deaths are reported in India between January and October in 2016, the highest national mortality figure since 2010.

Bangladesh is among the countries with least forest whereas Laos with 92.1 percentage of forest area is on the top of all in Asia. Bangladesh having 11.2 percent of forest areas of the total area of the country is among India, Mongolia and Pakistan with the least forest, according to the data of Asian Development Bank, 2016.

For more than 30,000 years, northern Russia's cold permafrost preserves the small bodies of two furry and wide-pawed cave lion cubs, one of them in almost pristine condition.

At least 10 dolphins are found dead in the Andaman Sea this year, including one recently in Krabi, Thailand, reports The Star TV.

Long-term exposure to urban air pollution incrementally increases the risk of high blood pressure, according to a study.

Sixty-eight may not seem that old, but for Snooty the manatee, it's a world record.

More than 300 wild mammal species in Asia, Africa and Latin America are being driven to extinction by humanity's voracious appetite for bushmeat, according to a recent study.

Police fire teargas shells to foil the procession of Save Sundarbans activists, who were marching towards the Indian High Commission to hand an “open letter” to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to step back from constructing Rampal power plant.

The National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans urges the prime minister to consider analysis of experts and pay no heed to the government propaganda on Rampal power plant as it is economically and environmentally destructive.

Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade, churns towards Jamaica and Haiti.

The tougher temperature goal was a great victory for the vulnerable countries in terms of global diplomacy and advocacy. Now

Indian forest department officials promise strict action after a python attacked a man when a group was trying to click a photo with it.

Coral fish become stressed and lose weight if they are separated from each other, hampering their chances of survival, an Australian study reveals.

In an open letter, hundreds of top scientists warn against voting for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying it would be disastrous for the planet if he becomes the US president.