The illegal logging of precious wood rose sharply during the political crisis that gripped Madagascar during 2009. Forest communities, who could be part of the preservation of these resources, have been swept up in the rush for rosewood.

Global temperatures could rise substantially more because of increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study by US and Chinese scientists.

Activists say they fired lasers after Japanese used sound, water cannons

A deal that one activist called Southern California's Louisiana Purchase will make life easier for game animals and other species. A look at Tejon Ranch--more than a quarter-million acres of valley oak, feral pigs, and just plain wild.

Although the Florida panther has been listed as endangered since 1967 fewer than 100 remain.

A bird-like dinosaur that prowled an ancient forest 125 million years ago used venom to subdue its prey, according to a new theory.Sinornithosaurus's upper teeth resemble those of "rear-fanged" snakes which bite their prey and channel venom into the wound

Twenty years ago, Richard Leakey saved Kenya's elephants from poachers by outfitting rangers with helicopters, automatic weapons, night-vision goggles, and shoot-to-kill orders. He has since been arrested, censored, and beaten, and lost his legs in a susp

Florentina is on her way to a Gypsy village near Sighisoara, to meet the mother who abandoned her as a baby 21 years ago.A charity has helped Florentina track her down, so she could make sense of her difficult past.

Tetepare may be one of the last tropical island paradises left on earth. The 120 square kilometer island (46 square miles), long untouched by industry or agriculture, is currently threatened by logging interests.

BANGKOK: China signed 14 deals with Cambodia worth approximately $1 billion, two days after Cambodia deported 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers. Members of a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority living mostly in western China, the 20 Uighurs said they were fleei