Bird researchers traveling through rural Costa Rica in pursuit of the elusive Pacific screech owl were attacked August 3 by locals who mistook them for thieves.
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.
In northern Japan, declines in drifting Arctic sea ice are raising fears that global warming will impact wildlife and tourism at Shiretoko National Park.
A black-and-white lemur, a tiny tamarin, and a monkey discovered just three years ago are among the species added in 2008 to the "critically endangered" category of the IUCN Red List.
Nicaragua celebrates its patron saint, an Amazonian volcano lets off steam, the Olympic torch reaches the Great Wall, and more of the best news photos this week.
