Millions of trees should be planted to cover an extra 4% of the UK in woodland in order to tackle climate change, the Forestry Commission has recommended.

Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.

A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender, and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University.

A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.

KATMANDU, Nepal - Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.

Fishing and refuse disposal are to be banned in the 1st high seas Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Southern Ocean, an area of the ocean that contains more species than the Galapagos Islands.

A 4-year-old border collie sent to doggie death row last month for biting three people has won a reprieve from a judge.

It is the third reported case of a cat with H1N1 and the first reported feline fatality.

It is currently illegal in the U.S. to sell fur from cats and dogs. However, garments and accessories containing cat and dog fur are sold every day. It is time to close a loophole in the federal law that does not require fur valued at less than $250 to

Tell the Nature Conservancy that its duty is not just to preserve and protect the vegetation at Devil's Den but also all the animals that live there and stop slaughtering the deers.