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.
No one was injured, but parts of the popular Hawaii Volcanoes National Park were shut down after an explosion atop the long-erupting Kilauea volcano rained gravel-size rocks over a large area.
A British group has released footage it claims shows illegal logging in Laos that helps feed Vietnam's booming furniture trade to the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere.
Animals and plants are waking, budding, or blooming earlier as global temperatures rise—putting many at risk for extinction while also making life difficult for humans.
A "dry fog" that muted the sun's rays in A.D. 536 and blanketed the Earth with a cooling ash was triggered by the eruption of a supervolcano, scientists say.
China's carbon dioxide emissions are rising two to four times faster than previously predicted, threatening to scuttle the effects of the Kyoto Protocol, according to new research.
Tamales made from the eggs of threatened spinytail iguanas are an Easter tradition in parts of Mexico. Conservationists try to keep up the wild populations.
Researchers say they have shown for the first time that the young marine mammals—studied off the coasts of Maui and Kauai—produce a few different sounds.
The recent slaying of three lions and up to four elephants in southern Kenya reflects the increasingly heated conflict between wildlife and the country's growing human population. Warning: graphic photo
