MANILA, Philippines - Authorities moved thousands of villagers from harm's way near the Philippines' most active volcano Tuesday after it oozed lava and shot plumes of ash, and said they probably would spend a bleak Christmas in an evacuation center.

PROPOSALS from Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) members on sharks and swordfish were adopted at the 6th Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting.

Experts say that the pitch level of the sounds whales send across the vast expanses of the ocean to attract potential mates has been steadily creeping downward for the past few decades. Mark McDonald, of WhaleAcoustics in Bellvue, Colorado, and a

The group have struck 13 times in the past two months because the towpath on a stretch of Regent's canal in Islington, has limited lighting to ensure the nocturnal bats living there are not scared off. In the past eight weeks, the 15-strong gang have

Sea Shepherd Says Its Time to Enforce the Law Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has confessed to what the rest of the world has known all along.

Sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a major review of climate change in Antarctica.

Australian scientists have said they are hoping to breed sheep that burp less as part of efforts to tackle climate change. The scientists have been trying to identify a genetic link that causes some sheep to belch less than others.

Why do hammerhead sharks have such a famously strange-shaped head? One hypothesis is that having eyes on either side of such a wide 'hammer' allows the sharks to see better.

A 5.1m long finned pilot whale Globicephala melas washed up on Dollar Bay, 2 kms south of Duncannon on the south coast of Ireland on Sunday, 22 November 2009.

THE all-Wales ambitions of a wildlife gardening project rest on the fickleness of the Welsh voting public