The United Nations said on Monday that agreeing a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger, which Brazil's president described as "the most devastating weapon of mass destruction".

Red deer are not rutting because they are being disturbed by amateur photographers and wildlife lovers who have been inspired to watch the annual mating ritual by nature programmes.

I'm getting e-mail about this weekly and I expect the nonsense to ratchet up.

The Yangtze river basin is being increasingly affected by extreme weather and its ecosystems are under threat, environmentalists say.

Australia's average surface temperature has risen more than 1 Fahrenheit degree since 1900. During roughly the same period, the body size of Australian passerine (perching) birds has declined by as much as 3.6 percent.

India's animal rights activist and politician Maneka Gandhi's protest and Nepal's 'Budhha Boy' Ram Bahadur Bomjan's appeal won't be able to prevent the sacrifice of nearly half-a-million animals at this month's Gadhimai Mela in this Himalayan nation.

A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.

The seizure of two frozen tigers last week only scratches the surface of widespread wildlife trafficking in Vietnam, an international expert has said.

Frogs are croaking in clear-cut forests, but not exactly in their traditional manner. University of Missouri researchers found that removing all of the trees from a section of the forest had a negative effect on amphibians during their later life cycles..

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (known as WWF) safeguards nature and ecological processes. Its mission is "to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.