Australian conservationists are racing to clear an important little penguin breeding site of an invasive species of tall grass that tangles up the birds and kills some of them.

Copious chemicals and plastic make conventional banana growing far from "green." But a remote university is producing eco-friendly bananas that may be in your local grocery.

A fossilized dinosaur known as Leonardo has shed light on what Montana was like 77 million years ago—including what the duck-billed reptile ate.

Milked for antivenom, Australia's king brown snakes are eating poisonous cane toads—alien amphibians that are overrunning the country.

Equipped with buttons, gadgets, and widgets, Japan's hi-tech toilets can baffle the uninitiated.

Allowing misshapen fruits and vegetables into supermarkets can ease the world food-price crisis, the European Union's farm chief says.

Landslide threats in quake-destabilized Chinese mountains forced the evacuation of giant pandas to temporary shelters.

A shape-shifting skyscraper may someday energize the Dubai skyline with its revolving floors and environmentally friendly, electricity-generating wind turbines.

After ten rare mountain gorillas were killed execution-style in a Congo park, Congolese authorities have arrested a senior park official in connection with the slayings.

As the Tao tribe of Taiwan celebrated the ritual launch of a newly carved fishing boat, there is concern nuclear waste could affect their catch.

Amid protest, the 2008 meeting of the International Whaling Commission opened in Chile, where the host nation proposed a permanent ban on whaling in its waters.

Nomadic cave people's 800-year-old fiber footwear, weapons, and other artifacts have been returned to Mexico after being seized in the U.S. and Canada.

In vibrant headdresses and robes, Inca descendants marked the Andean new year 5516 with prayers to Father Sun.

U.K. scientists are genetically modifying mosquitoes to be resistant to malaria, which kills millions annually. But some experts fear these supermosquitoes would upset the ecosystem.

Early today NASA launched its new satellite, Jason 2, which will monitor how ocean masses move in an effort to understand climate change's effects.