Hurricane Dean caused 20 deaths and billions of dollars of damage in Mexico and Jamaica-and may be a harbinger of additional powerful storms, forecasters say.
Despite its new "critically endangered" status, the Okinawa dugong might see even more of its habitat destroyed due to a U.S. airbase expansion, conservationists warn.
After ravaging the Yucatán Peninsula, the hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico and made second Mexican landfall with 100-mile-an-hour (160-kilometer-an-hour) winds.
Refugee cattlemen in a popular Uganda reserve are poisoning predators to protect their livestock, government officials say—but the cattlemen claim otherwise.
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A weakened tropical storm Erin may still cause flooding in Texas, which has already seen record rainfall. And a new threat, Hurricane Dean, is looming.