Canada's annual seal hunt begins Friday, as activists protest the government's allowance of more killings this year over last year. Warning: graphic imagery
Elephants, GPS, and digital cameras helped conservationists conduct a new rhino census that shows the endangered animals are rebounding in at least one national park.
A section of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan has broken away from a large ice shelf. Scientists say it is a sign of continued global warming.
A chunk of ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.
A little-known provision to the Endangered Species Act is allowing federal agencies to add fewer animals to the list while taking more off, critics charge.
The official's arrest in connection to the 2007 slayings of rare mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo marks a crucial step in their conservation, experts said.
The snake charmers of Morocco's Jemaa el Fna Square in Marrakech are legendary among tourists, but they are under criticism for using snakes from the wild that are dwindling in number.
Hydrogen sulfide and methane welling up from the oceans did not trigger the "Great Dying" that wiped out the vast majority of life around 250 million years ago, scientists say.
As oil development surges in the Peruvian Amazon, remote rain forest tribes are suffering both physically and socially as they're forced into contact with the outside world, rights groups say.
