In the matriarchal Mosuo culture of southwestern China, women own property and determine family relationships. But this so-called free-love society is under threat from modernization.
Landslides following the May 12 earthquake have destroyed forests and
blocked roads, leaving just a five-month bamboo supply for pandas in a
Chengdu breeding center.
In the Israeli desert, a U.S.-Israeli team is testing a new technology that uses mirrors to harness the sun's rays and create electricity-producing steam.
The World Day Against Child Labour raised awareness of the plight of child laborers around the world -- most of whom are impoverished and have no chance for a formal education.
An entire village inside a mountain is home to China's last known cave dwellers. It's a difficult life, but for the children, there's still room to play.
Undercover agents with a wildlife-trade investigation group report that they recently found illegal tiger bone wine for sale in two Chinese safari parks.
The remains of a palace thought to have been used by the emperor Moctezuma (also called Montezuma) have been unearthed in Mexico City, archaeologists say.
As lion numbers plummet in Kenya's Amboseli park, Maasai warriors—who traditionally spear lions—are being enlisted in high-tech and compensation-based conservation efforts.
Air pollution may be stifling flowers' sweet smells, making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find them, say University of Virginia researchers.
Chinese soldiers are using antitank weapons to control drainage from a huge earthquake-formed lake that threatens to flood more than a million people living downstream.
