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.
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.
