<p>Archeological excavations in Iran's southwestern city of Dena have yielded 120 sites dating back from the prehistoric to Islamic eras.</p>

Police say they rescued 181 dogs, cats and birds from a farm in southern Puerto Rico where they were found sick and undernourished in dirty cages.

After years of backroom arm-twisting, Iraq is flinging open half of its known oil reserves to foreign corporations on terms of unheard of favourability due to the risks that were caused precisely by the invasion of the country, argues Naomi Klein.

Gardening is a much simpler affair at the cottage. You want to keep your cottage property as natural as possible to preserve the nature around you.

As climates change, fuel prices rise and food shortages loom, a growing number of city dwellers are realizing that converting a home into a homestead makes ecological and economic sense. At San Francisco's Garden for the Environment, organic gardening cla

It's time to ask for your help again to protest against an Australian council that repeatedly allows circuses with animals to perform on their land.

A new pathway for methane production has been uncovered in the oceans, and this has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet. The article, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, reveals

The Brooklyn tot romped around his Bellevue Hospital bed Thursday, a day after surgeons had to reattach the ear he almost lost in a vicious pit bull attack.

Animal welfare groups must be panting: Leona Helmsley reportedly directed that her fortune - up to $8 billion - be used for the care and welfare of dogs. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the bequest was included in a so-called

There's a chimp on the loose in San Bernardino County. County animal control staff and volunteers were fanning out Saturday across a densely forested area near the town of Devore in search of Moe the chimpanzee.