Conservationists are raising the plight of the pangolin, a scaly anteater found in parts of Africa and Asia that is the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

A dog doesn’t care about your worst day. It doesn’t care about your mistakes, your failures, or what the world thinks of you. It cares about your footsteps, your voice, the way you say its name. For ...

After a few days traveling north, three of the ship's strained boilers exploded in the early hours of April 27, 1865, killing dozens instantly. Constructed predominantly of wood, the Sultana quickly ...

The bloom, caused by multiple species of the tiny dinoflagellate Karenia – a genus of planktonic organisms that drift in water columns – turns seawater a sickly colour, and produces a mucky foam that ...

Scientists warn that Kenya's second-largest city, Mombasa, is facing a convergence of climate hazards that could overwhelm low-lying neighborhoods and key transport routes. Flooding, mangrove loss, ...

The online activity of the shooter at a Canadian high school revealed she spent time in the dark corners of the internet.

Before Bambi was released in 1942, the editors of Outdoor Life urged Walt Disney Productions to make one simple change to ...

Five years ago, my best friend “Cathy’s” sister, “Lynn,” got sick. Her symptoms and pain were dismissed. Lynn turned out to have a well-known and usually treatable cancer, but doctors didn’t catch it ...

The whole small-child-sack-on-head thing should immediately alert you to the fact that with Reanimal, we are being thrown ...

If you’re an American and don’t believe Puerto Ricans are Americans, you’ve never served in the U.S. military. If you had, you would know that Puerto Ricans make up a large portion of U.S. troops.

Coral reefs, worth an estimated $9.8 trillion a year to humanity, are in far worse shape than previously realized. A massive ...

The 18-year-old fatally shot her mother and stepbrother as well as six people at a school, before killing herself. Her motive ...