In a settlement worth millions of dollars, New Zealand took a momentous step to address the historic grievances of its original Maori inhabitants yesterday, handing back nearly half a million acres of land lost by breaches in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
A major review by University of Adelaide researchers shows that the world is losing the battle over tropical habitat loss.Tropical forests support more than 60% of all known species,but up to 15 million hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost every
English Heritage curators and archaeologists descended on Gisborough Priory in Yorkshire on Tuesday June 24 to start surveying, measuring and photographing stones to piece together the priory's past.
Experts have started to examine a gold chalice that shipwreck salvagers recovered while searching for the wreckage of a Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.
Seal hunters plan to club 86,000 seals in an annual hunt set to begin next week, as animal rights activists brace for a showdown with the government over a practice they regard as inhumane.
Japan defended its practice of 'scientific' whale hunting at the annual International Whaling Commission meeting here on Wednesday, insisting it had yielded important scientific results.
In light of recent European bans of a pesticide linked to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD),at least one key bee expert is calling for a ban of the same pesticide in the U.S.Clothianidin,a pesticide commonly used to keep insects off of corn crops.Germany
Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.
