A new British Museum survey of several important archaeological sites in southern Iraq suggests antiquities there are threatened more by neglect, erosion, and military activities than looting.
Giant kangaroo-like beasts and thousand-pound marsupial hippos went extinct on the Australian island of Tasmania more than 40,000 years ago from hunting, not climate change, scientists say.
A new generation is fighting to keep family farming viable in Australia—also known as Oz—against a backdrop of rising costs, drought, and farm sell-offs.
In northern Japan, declines in drifting Arctic sea ice are raising fears that global warming will impact wildlife and tourism at Shiretoko National Park.
Recent declines in drift ice around the Shiretoko Peninsula are raising fears of global warming's impact on the local ecosystem -- and endangering winter tourism.
The administration's proposed revisions would cut out advice of government scientists in determining whether subdivisions, dams, highways, and other projects might harm endangered animals and plants.
Tattoos, Olympic-rings hairstyles, and cross-country bike trips are among the offbeat expressions of athletic and patriotic pride in China during the games.
Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans likely did not interbreed, says a new DNA study that also suggests small population numbers helped do in our closest relatives.
The chilis develop piquant chemicals to frustrate the harmful fungus long enough for birds and other animals to disperse the peppers' seeds, a new study finds.
