Following the outbreak of deadly bird flu in French poultry last week, fears are growing for the Gallic Rooster, a major part of the nation's cultural identity.
A dead cat on the German island of Rügen tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, authorities announced yesterday, raising fears that the disease could become capable of spreading between mammals.
Canada's vast new nature preserve, the Great Bear Rainforest, will be twice the size of the U.S.'s Yellowstone National Park. Survey its pristine scenery and learn how this historic conservation project was created.
After a decade of debate among logging companies, environmentalists, and local communities, a protective plan establishes a massive new wilderness preserve in Canada.
Reserve areas established for Brazil's indigenous peoples are as effective as uninhabited nature parks in preventing destruction to Amazon rain forests, a new study has found.
From red tide to cat feces, experts are painting a new picture of marine contaminants that shows some surprising health connections between land and sea.
The facial tumors that could destroy Australia's Tasmanian devils is spread by bites, scientists say—the first known instance of cancer spreading this way.
An ancient medical mystery—the cause of a plague that wracked Athens around 430 B.C. and contributed to its fall—has been solved by DNA analysis, researchers say.
In the wake of last year's unprecedented hurricane damage, questions are being raised about whether rebuilding should be allowed on the U.S.'s hurricane-vulnerable coastlines.
Humans' thirst for bottled water now tops 40 billion gallons a year. But campaigners say the portable potable really isn't any safer than tap water in most countries.
