On a South Atlantic island, mice previously thought to be harmless are attacking endangered seabirds more than 300 times their weight, scientists report.

Watch as shattering sea ice nearly strands a film crew, ghostly white whales glide underwater, and ultralight planes soar over vertigo-inducing icebergs.

Like many humans, insects and plants are more likely to hitch flights to foreign destinations in June, July, and August, scientists say.

The earthquake that blasted the Solomon Islands with a deadly tsunami has devastated local fishing and tourism by exposing vulnerable coral.

Planting new trees in northern latitudes could actually cause further warming in parts of Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia, according to new research.

In a place where rites of passage include spearing lions, new conservation efforts have found success by entrusting local herders with the safety of big cats they once sought to kill.

Crisscrossed with gems up to 36 feet (11 meters) long, Mexico's Cave of Crystals looks like nothing so much as Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

Arctic foxes in Europe died out as the last ice age ended, suggesting many cold-loving animals are much more vulnerable to global warming than previously believed.

Spring is coming early to the western slope of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, providing continuing signs of a warming world, according to biologists.

Global warming threatens to extinguish millions of human lives and nearly a third of the planet's wildlife, an international panel of experts says.

Climate models predict that large parts of the U.S. and Mexico could experience long-term drought—akin to the North American Dust Bowl of the 1930s—due to global warming.

Low-lying regions at risk of being swamped by rising sea levels had their virtual equivalents flooded as part of a campaign to raise global warming awareness.

A Nevada-size chunk of southern Africa may soon form a cross-border conservation zone that would vastly increase roaming space for 150,000 elephants.

They may seem abundant in gardens, but magnolias are increasingly threatened in the wild due to deforestation, plant conservation groups say.

See the remote island hard hit by South Pacific killer waves on April 2—including villages whose flimsiness and locations made residents so vulnerable.