The US space shuttle Endeavour linked up with the orbiting International Space Station Wednesday, as the two vessels opened their hatches and brought together 11 space voyagers. Before...
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers on Wednesday began rounding up thousands of zebras to move them to Amboseli National Park where starving lions have been attacking livestock. Rangers
Finland's President Tarja Halonen Wednesday called for urgent measures to save the Baltic as she opened a regional summit to save one of the world's most polluted seas. "It's clear that...
Tribesmen in Malaysia are being paid by syndicates to trap wildlife, including critically endangered tigers, to meet insatiable demand from China, a conservationist said Wednesday. ...
Japan plans to propose scaling down its annual 'scientific' Antarctic whale hunt if it is allowed to step up commercial whaling in its own coastal waters instead, a fisheries official said...
As Haiti counts the cost of last month's devastating earthquake, experts are warning of the potential for an even greater disaster in another of the world's poorest countries, Nepal. ...
A ban on fishing around a colony of threatened penguins in South Africa has brought swift benefits to the beleaguered birds, marine biologists reported on Wednesday. The population of...
EU industry ministers on Tuesday pressed the European Commission to establish a common strategy to develop electric cars. Ministers and industry representatives discussed the future of...
The United States on Tuesday pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being...
Oceanographers carrying out vital studies of the Indian Ocean's marine world have been idle for a year, left stranded ashore by Somalia's marauding pirates and the global armada combating...
Russia, which is set to hold a monopoly on flights to the international space station (ISS), wants to charge more for rides on its Soyuz rocket, the space agency head said Tuesday. "At a
Haiti's quake battered and greatly diminished weather service urgently needs help ahead of the flood and storm prone country's impending rainy season, the UN's weather agency said on...
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and other leaders from around the Baltic Sea hold a summit in Helsinki on Wednesday under growing pressure to clean up one of the world's most...
NASA made final preparations Tuesday for the launch of its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which promises to give space scientists the most detailed glimpse ever of our sun and its...
China said Tuesday it had nearly 6,000 tigers in captivity and could breed 1,000 more every year, amid international controversy over the benefits of farming the endangered species. The...
China on Tuesday named pollution from farms as a major cause for concern, as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases released its first nationwide survey on sources of environmental