Each year international students from Canada to Kenya are drawn to Costa Rica's EARTH University to learn how to bring sustainable businesses back home.
Italian wall lizards transplanted to a tiny island near Croatia underwent physical changes in 30 generations that normally take millions of years, experts say.
After decades of deforestation, conservationists have hit upon an innovative plan to preserve Brazilian rain forests—by encouraging landowners to create private, legally protected nature reserves.
The loss of agricultural land to grow biofuels has hit developing countries hard. Now, as Earth Day draws near, an ex oil chairperson says nonfood crops are the answer.
From stern warnings to solar panels on St. Peter's, Pope Benedict XVI is encouraging environmentalism. Friday he heightened his campaign in New York City.
Critics charge that the U.S. government's request to delay a decision on listing the bears as endangered is a tactic tied to the transfer of offshore petroleum leases in the animals' habitat.
A large proportion of captive tigers are representatives of endangered subspecies and may be candidates for captive breeding programs, a new genetic study has found.
Giant lakes of meltwater pooled on top of Greenland's ice sheet are suddenly draining, allowing the sheet to more easily slip forward, a new study found.
The giant freshwater species, previously thought to be extinct in the wild, features in local legend as delivering a magic sword to defeat invaders in the 16th century.
Scientists are embarking on a research mission to discover the cause of hundreds of mild earthquakes that have occurred in a bizarre offshore location in recent weeks.
