BOULDER, Colo. - Climate change may be only the latest of many challenges facing Indian country, but it is having devastating effects in parts of the far North where at least one Native village faced with inundation by melting polar ice is suing...

More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.

The almost-decomposed body of the leopard suggested that it had been shot dead around a week ago and hence its skin could not be flayed for stuffing, the report said.

A TERRIFIED cat died after suffering terrible burns when thugs strapped a firework to her back and set it alight. The moggy was discovered horrifically injured more than a week after the callous yobs struck.

A sweet-natured, jet-black Alsatian-Rottweiler mix, Andre survived a nightmare in the woods near his home in Wasilla, Alaska, last May. He went for a walk on his own and stepped into an illegal hunting trap, which snapped around his left front and back

A jobless man whose dog was found emaciated and tied a drain pipe in his back garden has been banned from owning animals for six years.

Burroughs often feeds a group of stray cats that live in the woods behind her apartment. The kitten, named Sweetie, showed up a couple of weeks ago, completely healthy. Burroughs heard it crying Halloween night and found it had been abused.

Syracuse police say a Graves Street man hanged a kitten and made a video of the animal struggling. Rascell Williams, 22, of 303 Graves St., was alone with the cat on Halloween, according to his live-in girlfriend, Joanne Cichy.

Nubs, the one-time Iraqi street mutt -- so named by American soldiers for the stubs where his ears used to be -- appeared on this morning's Today Show, along with the Marine major who rescued him.

Federal and state officials closed a Vermont slaughterhouse Friday after an animal rights group produced a video depicting days-old calves being dragged, kicked, and repeatedly shocked with electric prods.