WATER

A 4-foot spinner shark was caught on video while jumping over a surfer at New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

According to North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, the Souris River is flowing over most levees in Minot as it surges past a 130-year old record level.

An exciting discovery by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveals a young sun-like star shooting jets of water into space at a speed of 124,000 miles per hour.

Photos taken by the Deep Impact spacecraft have revealed an unusually hyperactive little comet, called Hartley 2, which spews inordinately high amounts of dry ice and carbon dioxide into space. For scientists, the new images from Deep Impact's comet flyby have come across as weird and strange. The comet behaves mysteriously --it spews out more water and dry ice than any other comet of its size, and it spins rapidly as it tumbles while most other comets rotate slowly in one direction.

As the Wallow Wildfire along the Arizona-New Mexico border continues to burn, firefighting flight mission crews kept fetching water from Luna Lake to drop it over the flares on Monday.

NASA has launched an international satellite that carries Aquarius instrument to measure the saltiness of Earth's oceans, a study that helps understand the global water cycle and improve climate forecasts.

With 16 films in competition for the main prize, the Golden Goblet, the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) will kick start in the Shanghai Grand Theater.

Just under 23 percent of all home mortgages across the United States are currently “under water,” according to a report by CoreLogic, the information, analytics and business services firm.

Iranian navy has sent submarines to the Red Sea in the first such deployment in distant waters.

An unusual signal has been detected by the seismic monitoring station at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's research facility on Barro Colorado Island.

China is committed to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea, as Beijing following a week tension with Manila and Hanoi over the issue is trying to put a friendlier face, Reuters reported.

Stocks steadied, bond yields dipped and the euro rose to a one-month high versus the dollar on Friday as investors braced for a key U.S. jobs report that could feed debate over whether the economy is headed for a protracted slowdown.

Following the massive tornado that killed over 132 and damaged many houses in Joplin, experts speculate that the danger is far from being over due to a possible contamination of water and air from industrial debris.

Moon has more water than previously thought, according to a new study by NASA-funded researchers.

Shares in commodities trader Glencore ticked higher on their first day of official trade but remained below their offer level, dashing hopes of a strong start after the group set a mid-range flotation price.

Royal Dutch Shell sees deep-water oil drilling continuing in the future and as of next year will produce more gas than oil, its chief executive was quoted as saying by a Swiss newspaper on Sunday.

Forest fires have devastated the town of Slave Lake, Alberta, forcing officials to evacuate most of the 10,000 residents. Take a look at the watering down of wildfires at Slave Lake:

The Japanese government will issue a new set of work ethics on Tuesday to bring the damaged Fukushima power plant under control by January, said reports

The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a flood warning for Kennebec River at Skowhegan affecting Somerset County.

Residents near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have been moved further away from the facility to evacuation centers, reports said.

A ten-ton steel floodgate on River Mississippi at Morganza was opened, the first such eventuality in four decades, in a desperate effort to drain the swelling waters of the river.