An eight-foot catfish, the new seven wonders, and "the inside-out-seahorse-in-a-ball-nerd of the deep" are among our most viewed marvels.

Major earthquakes on the dangerous Hayward Fault hit the San Francisco Bay Area every 140 years—and 2008 will mark the next anniversary, scientists warned yesterday.

Fishers in South Korea say their livelihoods have been devastated because of the 66,000-barrel oil spill off the Korean coast.

Arctic sea ice is half what it was four years ago, and it's melting faster than ever, a U.S. government scientist says.

Mysterious "night-shining" clouds may have become more radiant and widespread because of an influx of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere, experts say.

The first footage of the endangered Mongolian long-eared jerboa in its natural habitat—the Gobi Desert—could help save the endangered mouse relative by bringing attention to it.

Indonesia launched a ten-year program this week to protect orangutans' jungle habitat from logging, mining, and palm oil plantations.

"Shared responsibility" obliges the international community to pay to preserve an oil-rich forest reserve in Ecuador, the country's president argues. Some environmentalists agree.

A bio-gas plant in an Indian town generates 3,000 watts of electricity a day—from human waste.

Spilled oil has destroyed livelihoods along the western coast of South Korea, where communities depend on fishing, seafood farming, and tourism.

A 9-foot-long (274-centimeter-long) spitting cobra—also the most venomous of the cobras—has been identified in Kenya, experts say.

Warmer temperatures, logging, livestock expansion, and worsening drought could destroy nearly 60 percent of the Amazon rain forest by 2030, a conservation group warns.

In a win for conservationists and tigers, Indian police have broken up a major ring of alleged poachers.

A giant gush of fresh water into the North Atlantic altered a deep ocean current and triggered a century-long chill in Europe and North America some 8,200 years ago, according to a new research.

A law that gives forest-dwelling tribes the right to cultivate their traditional lands will devastate India's endangered wildlife, some conservationists argue.