The worst floods to hit Malaysia in 37 years have forced nearly 100,000 people out of their homes. Food shortages and looting have prompted heavy criticism of the government’s handling of the crisis. In neighbouring Indonesia, at least six people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced by flash floods caused by the [...]

A $50,000 (£25,000) competition has been launched by the Planetary Society to find the best way to tag a 400m-wide asteroid. The Planetary Society will give a prize to the designers of a mission that would allow the orbit of Apophis, an Earth-crossing asteroid to be which will come close to Earth in 2029 and [...]

New scientific data suggests that the Arctic may be free of all summer ice by as early as 2040. The Arctic may be close to a tipping point that sees all-year-round ice disappear very rapidly in the next few decades, US scientists have warned. The latest data presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting [...]