Africa's largest undercover investigation of wildlife crime may lead police to smugglers, Kenyan officials said this week. But conservationists claim such stings are futile.
Thousands of wild horses in U.S. care will not be put down to give the government another year to explore possible solutions and "let cooler heads prevail," U.S. officials said Monday.
Seized during a Malaysian raid, the owls shocked wildlife-trade monitors. The sizes of this and another November seizure point to organized crime, experts say.
A whaling ship is seen departing Japan Monday in video provided by Greenpeace, which claims the ship is on its way to Antarctic waters to hunt whales. Warning: Video contains graphic imagery.
Lonesome George is the last of a Galápagos tortoise subspecies. After 36 years the aging tortoise finally fertilized eggs of a female tortoise, but most are unlikely to hatch.
Cuba is the only country that meets the criteria for sustainable development from the conservation group WWF. But concern persists for once thriving Caribbean marine turtles.
Thousands of wild mustangs kept in U.S. government holding pens may have to be euthanized unless alternatives are found, according to a new federal report released this week.
Scientists are fitting bees with radio tracking tags, a technological breakthrough that may provide clues to the honeybee decline—and how to harness other bees to protect food supplies
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that military training trumps protecting whales in a dispute over the Navy's use of sonar in submarine-hunting exercises off California.
The white sturgeon, North America's largest freshwater fish, has bounced back in the Fraser River thanks to an unprecedented volunteer effort including fishermen and aboriginal groups.
Deep ice sheets would blanket much of Canada, Europe, and Asia thousands of years from now—if it weren't for human-made global warming, a new study says.
From cannibalistic trout to 14-foot stingrays—a series on gargantuan freshwater fishes has won the 2008 American Association for the Advancement of Science award for online science journalism.
