On Saturday night, March 28, look for lights to go out in more than 2,800 cities, towns, and villages for Earth Hour. But first, see darkening skylines of Earth Hour 2008 in before-and-after pictures.
Many captive clouded leopards are killed or neglected by their mothers, but two new cubs are the fruits of research to prevent brutality during breeding. With video.
Post-eruption pictures of Alaska's Redoubt Volcano reveal massive mudflows and a swath of ash visible from space. And Redoubt may be just getting started, experts say.
Animals in Alaska continue to suffer from the remaining 21,000 gallons (79,500 liters) of oil left from the Exxon Valdez spill, the worst in U.S. history, conservationists say.
Alaska's Redoubt Volcano, the ninth most dangerous volcano in the U.S., has so far produced five eruptions that have sent ash and smoke 9 miles (15 kilometers) into the sky.
In a phenomenon occurring just twice a century, tens of millions of rats decimate fields and forests in northeast India and parts of Burma and Bangladesh. The cause: bamboo.
It's about as unlikely as capturing a "fossil sneeze," one researcher noted. But the soft bodies of 95-million-year-old octopuses were found preserved in Lebanese rocks.
Have a look at an astonishing volcanic eruption, a rare wild-born reptile, and the last hurrah of a Seattle newspaper in our editor's picks of the week's best news pictures.
Dried perfume oil found in a bottle belonging to Hatshepsut, the gender-bending pharaoh who reigned in the fifteenth century B.C., may help us "put our noses back in time," one scientist says.