See a roundup of this week's news: India celebrates its 60th year of independence, London's Big Ben gets a cleaning, Mexico's Saint of Death gets a makeover, and more.
Exclusive: Last month's gorilla "executions" are the result of a burgeoning illicit charcoal trade that includes government officials, wildlife rangers allege.
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.
The half-ton fish are known as China's "pandas under the water," but they'll soon vanish from the wild unless a new breeding program can save it. Third in a series on megafishes
Flossie is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the northwestern islands, but it's nothing the marine reserve there can't handle, a NOAA expert says.
The kingdom of Angkor was the world's largest preindustrial settlement, but sprawl and environmental degradation hastened its downfall, a new study hints.
As conservationists warn that bluefin tuna are near extinction due to overfishing, scientists are using the latest technology to tease out the fishes' migration mysteries and hopefully craft better protections.
It's a matter of when—not if—a massive earthquake will strike Southern California. And the results could be "along the lines of Hurricane Katrina," experts say.
