They may look like perm-sporting rock stars or even perfectly coiffured poodles - but this collection of specially-trimmed wildlife are actually all chickens. Pictured here is a bearded splash pullet Silkie.

"Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting.WHAT really was going on there?

We realize that that the apathy surrounding Global Warming is often a product of fear: the fear that we are too late, the problem is too great, and that we as individuals cannot do anything about it This couldn't be farther from the truth.

Most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily ... Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day--or some 50,000 species a year--as the forests fall.

State Management of Wolves in Alaska Press Release, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes De-listing Wolves in Northern Rockies Federal Register Notice for Delisting Wolves in the Northern Rockies

As far as national mascots go Australia's is one of the cutest, but unfortunately the cuddly critters are also seriously endangered. Australia's koalas could become extinct in as little as 30 years.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday

Mountains and streams, tall grasses and redwoods, bison and bears -- from sea to shining sea.

"They've threatened to cut my head off 14 times," the priest told Komsomolskaya Pravda, adding that the Federal Security Service had contacted him last year after uncovering a plot to murder him.

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