If carbon dioxide emissions remain unchecked, many of the remaining reefs will be lost in the next few decades, experts said today at a U.N. meeting in Poland.
Satoyama, a centuries-old blending of nature and sustainable farms, is falling victim to modernized agriculture, cheaper imports, and Japan's aging population, experts warn.
The curly-tentacled critters are among 20 new species of worms that survive on methane-rich seeps in the seafloor in the Gulf of Cadiz, off the coast of Spain.
Some pre-Hispanic cultures in South America built elaborate celebration sites at their cemeteries, complete with feasting and drinking grounds, according to a new archaeological study.
A fairy fly's golden glow, "brainbows," and a beetle's iridescent eye region illuminated winning images of Olympus's BioScapes contest for microscope photography of animals, plants, and other life-forms.
The white sturgeon, North America's largest freshwater fish, has bounced back in the Fraser River thanks to an unprecedented volunteer effort. Updated with video.
Stone tools found in Ethiopia, likely crafted by the earliest Homo sapiens, have been dated to at least 276,000 years ago—80,000 years before our earliest relatives were thought to roam Africa.
Illegal smugglers are increasingly hunting down leopards to satisfy China's demand for big cats, whose parts are used as decoration and in traditional medicine, conservationists say.
Despite months of warfare and no protection for 15 months, a mountain gorilla family in Congo has been found with five newborns on a volcanic mountainside.
