Unrelenting fires have forced nearly one million people from their homes, in what has become the largest-ever emergency evacuation in California history.
A quarter million people have been ordered to flee California wildfires. Fierce Santa Ana winds whipping the flames make the blazes difficult to control.
The invasive snail, originally imported as an exotic menu item, has instead left a trail of disease and environmental damage throughout the country, experts say.
The gray crowned crane, Uganda's iconic national bird, is dwindling in number as "witch doctors" and poachers illegally take the birds for potions and pets.
A warmer climate in Greenland has opened up new possibilities for economic development, but it may have negative effects on the island's native people, WWF says.
The thinness of the Indian continent allowed it to speed northward at ten times the rate of other tectonic plates after the breakup of a supercontinent 150 million years ago, a new study suggests.
Explorers have set off to make the first accurate measurements of the polar ice cap's thickness in the North Pole, data that will help scientists understand global warming.
The Indonesian government on Tuesday ordered the mandatory evacuation of 30,000 people living within the vicinity of Mt. Kelud, which scientists fear may erupt.
