The bears could be the first mammals officially deemed endangered due to global warming, possibly indicating a shift in Bush Administration thinking on climate change.
Olympic organizers promise that the Turin Games will be "the greenest ever." But conservationists warn of a larger environmental crisis looming at the games' Alpine site.
Explore one of Earth's biggest biodiversity hotspots—the islands stretching from Indonesia to the Philippines—and experience the sizeable wildlife that thrives there.
Deep in a South Pacific island jungle, explorers have uncovered an Eden thriving with unknown kangaroos, birds, bugs, and more, the scientists announced today.
Score one for the Swiss-Army-knife theory. A new study hints that brains are made up of distinct parts dedicated to distinct tasks, including recognizing faces.
It may be a threat to humans' long-term future on the planet, but climate change may have helped bring us into being in the first place, some scientists say.
In times of economic crisis, natural disaster, and other stresses, mothers tend to produce fewer male children. New research suggests a reason for the decline.
Straddling religion and medicine, the ancient practice may help treat infertility, skin diseases, and other ailments, according to doctors and the Dalai Lama.
A teenage girl who died two weeks ago tested positive yesterday for the H5N1 strain of the virus, making her the first bird flu victim in the war-torn nation.
To follow the movements of cougars in remote areas of western North America, a team of biologists has found a different kind of tracking device: a virus that's the feline equivalent of HIV.
Current corn-ethanol production technologies are far less petroleum-intensive than gasoline, though both fuels have similar greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say.
