Hurricane Ike is forecast to hit the islands early next week as a major hurricane. Given the limited escape routes, officials have ordered evacuations to begin Saturday.
An agreement between the country's wildlife authority and the army to move troops may help preservation efforts at Virunga National Park, home to rare mountain gorillas.
A major earthquake this year in China had a lasting impact on the population of giant pandas, killing at least one of the animals—plus five people who had been working to preserve the species.
Tropical storm Hanna may hit the mid-Atlantic U.S. tonight. Meanwhile, powerful Hurricane Ike—part of a fierce breed of African storm—looks to be a major threat for Florida.
Siberia's last woolly mammoths, which died out about 10,000 years ago, descended from North American stock, according to new research. But others question the conclusion.
The deluge, caused by a dam break in Nepal, has destroyed more than 250,000 acres of farmland, killed at least 90 people, and left at least a million people homeless.
Oceans will likely not rise a cataclysmic 16 feet suggested by some scientists, but the increase will still be substantial, a new glacier study predicts.
A Manhattan-size ice chunk, from an ice shelf believed to be thousands of years old, is among many pieces breaking off shelves in the Canadian Arctic this summer.
"If I couldn't swim, I would have been dead," said one Haitian survivor after tropical storm Hanna caused massive flooding, cutting off one city and killing dozens.
Melting Greenland ice could cause oceans to swell by more than a foot over the next hundred years, according to a study of the ancient Laurentide ice sheet.
"Fishing wolves" in coastal British Columbia forgo their usual prey and eat salmon almost exclusively in the fall, says a new study that "absolutely shocked" its authors.
