The project would require massive alterations to the environment.

Australia’s bushfires have burned more than half the known habitat of 100 threatened plants and animals, including 32 critically endangered species, the government said Monday.

Pope Francis on Saturday praised fishermen cleaning up polluted seas by collecting the rubbish caught in their nets and bringing it back to land to dispose of it.

Heavy rain has soaked coastal areas of Queensland and New South Wales over the last few days.

Ash spewed by a Philippine volcano is being mixed with plastic waste to make bricks in an inventive response to the country’s persistent problems of pollution and frequent natural disasters.

A rafflesia recently broke the record as the largest flower ever recorded, blooming in the forests of West Sumatra.

The Seychelles is confronting a tug-of-war over how to keep the economy – dependent on tourism – growing, while making sure their conservation areas remain protected.

You probably know the land-based Big 5 all too well – but meet the watery critters that you should definitely tick off your animal-watching bucket list.

Australia’s fire season started even before summer had begun and has destroyed more than 5 million hectares of bush.

One guide from Mala Mala Game Reserve in Mpumalanga, South Africa, wanted to get a closer, face-to-face experience with the animals – and decided to see how they would react to a GoPro.

At least half of Australia’s only disease-free koala population, a key ‘insurance’ for the species’ future, is feared dead with more badly hurt after bushfires swept through an island sanctuary, rescuers have said.

The bushfires raging across Australia have had a devastating impact on the country’s unique flora and fauna, with some estimates putting the death toll at nearly half a billion animals in one state alone, and experts believe it could take decades for

For three decades, paleontologists the world over have been split over a provocative finding: did a dwarf species of Tyrannosaurus rex really once exist?

A nearly mile-long tunnel in Las Vegas meant to showcase a “traffic busting” alternative for overcrowded cities should be completed next year, innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Twitter.

A nearly mile-long tunnel in Las Vegas meant to showcase a “traffic busting” alternative for overcrowded cities should be completed next year, innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Twitter.

China has launched one of the world’s most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020.

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Thirteen rhinos have been poached in Botswana in the last two months, the tourism ministry says, as the government tries to crackdown on hunting of the endangered species.

Europe’s CHEOPS planet-hunting space telescope left Earth on Wednesday and moved into orbit, a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown.

Scientists have discovered what could be the world’s oldest forest, potentially rich in information on the link between forests and climate change, according to a study published in the journal ‘Current Biology’.

The inaugural event was hugely successful and Jimmy Nevis and friends wowed the crowd that flocked to Algeria for the Camp-Out in 2019.