Orissa is one of the planet's last places where highly-endangered Olive Ridley Turtles nest en masse. If the Tatas build a port here, the turtles could disappear, taking an entire ecosystem along with them.

Rat meat has become such a popular alternative to other dearer meats in Cambodia that its price has increased fourfold.

It is at times like this that many Israelis feel more isolated and different in a world that doesn't really "get" why so much effort has gone into securing the return of two dead soldiers.

Diclofenac, which causes kidney failure in vultures, has been responsible for a 99.9% decline of Critically Endangered White-rumped Vulture

Increasingly common consequences of the housing crisis is the number of former companion animals that are being abandoned to shelters. Most will probably be killed.

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Examples of drugs that have been withdrawn due to adverse drug reactions: Novartis's Prexige (lumiracoxib), used to treat painful symptoms of osteoarthritis, was withdrawn in 2007 after being linked to serious liver reactions. Marketing of Bayer

Petal, the Philadelphia Zoo's beloved African elephant, died of acute heart and lung failure after she fell on her side while sleeping, zoo officials said yesterday. What's more, the 52-year-old pachyderm, the oldest of her kind in an American zoo,

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Newly obtained evidence based on the circus's own documents reveals that Ringling Bros. keeps elephants virtually immobilized in chains for the majority of their lives. Internal records of the circus's train travels show that the elephants are chained