The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries in China and the agave-growing region of Jalisco in Mexico are among 18 new sites added to the UN's list of naturally and culturally important places.

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake that triggered yesterday's tsunami in Indonesia moved slowly along the fault line, causing experts to underestimate its strength.

A forested region in southwestern China that's home to more than 30 percent of the world's giant pandas has been named a World Heritage site by the UN.

Related: See photos of other new World Heritage sites.

With their fields of green and grapes, wineries might not seem environmentally unfriendly. But these lush vineyards are coming under increasing fire.

Summer rainfall in the Southeast United States peaks during the workweek and declines on weekends due to air pollution from vehicle congestion, a recent study suggests.

Relatively environmentally unfriendly and underpowered, the corn-based fuel has nothing on soybean biodiesel, a new study says.

Unless carbon dioxide emissions are cut back, experts warn, the nation's premium wine production may be reduced by 81 percent by the end of the century.

The European Alps could be virtually ice free by the end of this century, a new study warns, as rising air temperatures melt away mountain glaciers.

In compliance with an out-of-court settlement with an environmental group, the U.S. Navy began using mid-frequency sonar yesterday during exercises off Hawaii.

Be dazzled by the jewel-like colors of some of the world's threatened frogs, and learn about a proposed Amphibian Survival Alliance that would help protect species around the globe.

A 30-hour hunt in and near Washington, D.C., netted more than a thousand species, including a rare snail, a new beetle, and a species of fly never before seen east of Iowa.

Down to fewer than a hundred, right whales off Alaska may have gotten a lifeline Thursday when the U.S. designated much of their territory as critical habitat.

The wetlands, mostly destroyed by Saddam Hussein's regime, are springing back to life. But some experts say that pollution and agricultural water use threaten further improvement.

Watch forestry experts tempt wind, flames, and fate by lighting a controlled burn to protect one of the U.S.'s great northern forests.

Fires now raging in the U.S. West may be stoked in part by drying associated with earlier springs and hotter temperatures, scientists say.