125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after getting stranded on beaches over the weekend, and vacationers and conservation workers managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

After 3 years of planning, 9 year old Sarah Lewis has donated hundreds of pairs of socks in Windsor, ON. She gave 576 pairs - sweat socks & wool socks, in black, white and grey - to a downtown drop-in centre for homeless & low-income people.

It's become more and more difficult to find anywhere on Earth unaffected by man-made pollution and development. Here are the 15 most toxic places to live.

A popular pair of endangered peregrine falcons have hatched three chicks on the ledge of a downtown Winnipeg hotel. The pair, which have nested on a ledge on the 13th floor for the past few years, returned despite being struck by misfortune in 2008.

Researchers in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants -- deploying parasitic flies that turn the pesky and economically costly insects into zombies whose heads fall off.

A massive Antarctic ice shelf is breaking up and pieces are expected to float away as icebergs over the course of the next few weeks.

If nobody wants what's in your blue recycling bin, is it just trash -- albeit highly reusable trash -- by another name? Is there ever a point where it would make more sense to send recyclable materials to a landfill? - Recycling vs the economy

An overdue bald eagle egg finally hatched early Wednesday morning on a nest high up a tree near Sidney on Vancouver Island, a biologist said.

The United Nations may be forced to shut down its West African Humanitarian Air Service due to a lack of money. Without air service, aid to millions of people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast would be jeopardized.

A U.S. company promoting infrastructure to support electric cars is going to open a site in Toronto. Shai Agassi called the joint announcement "the all-important first step in an expected electric car charging network rollout for Canada."