Staggering numbers of elephants, gazelle, and ostriches, plus at least 800,000 white-eared kob, thrived during 25 years of civil war in Southern Sudan. But others didn't fare so well, a new survey shows.
Go deep into central Africa's dense tropical forests, considered to be among the world's most pristine, and see the toll being taken by the region's burgeoning logging industry.
Unchecked logging in six central African countries is slowly chipping away at some of the world's last remaining tropical forest tracts, new satellite data show.
Gonu, the strongest recorded storm to bear down on the Arabian Peninsula, swept over coastal regions of Oman with winds reaching 62 miles (100 kilometers) an hour.
New satellite images show more than 300 glaciers in Antarctica are flowing faster to the sea, providing "strong evidence" of a changing climate, experts say.
The recent uptick in hurricane numbers is just a return to normal after a long lull, not the result of global warming, suggests a new, 270-year reconstruction of the storm record.
A new creation from the special-effects experts at Weta Workshops is helping researchers understand the territorial behaviors of a rare island reptile.
A flashy purple frog and a kissy-faced catfish are among the 24 new animal species recently discovered by scientists working in the remote highlands of Suriname.
The export of 60 tons of ivory from Africa to Japan has been approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species despite claims it could leave elephants even more vulnerable to poachers.
Failing to win hunting rights for four communities, Japan said it may quit the International Whaling Commission, bringing its annual meeting to a fiery finish.
The Atlantic is likely to see five major hurricanes this year, forecasters say. But the experts' credibility has come under question after last year was much quieter than they predicted.
A program to return captive-born giant pandas to the wild in China has suffered a serious setback with the death of a five-year-old male that was released last April.
As global temperatures have risen, rainfall has kept pace, a new study shows—results that suggest many of the world's most sophisticated climate models are flawed.
