Plants were never before this popular with Dhaka dwellers as it is this year. According to nursery owners who are participating in the on-going national plant fair “Jatiya Brikkho Mela” at Agargaon in Dhaka, the sale of plants this year has surpassed that of any previous years.

The World Wildlife Fund urges Asian states to investigate all tiger breeding centres and crack down on any involved in black-market animal trade.

The Dead Sea, the salty lake located at the lowest point on Earth, is gradually shrinking under the heat of the Middle Eastern sun. For those who live on its shores it's a slow-motion crisis - but finding extra water to sustain the sea will be a huge challenge.

Thai authorities say they have detained a monk attempting to smuggle tiger skins and fangs from a Buddhist temple.

A new discovery about how clouds form may scale back some of the more dire predictions about temperature increases caused by man-made global warming.

Dosing farm animals with antibiotics increases greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, research suggests.

A British aid charity warns that by 2060 more than a billion people worldwide will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change.

Five islands have disappeared in the Pacific's Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to an Australian study that could provide valuable insights for future research.

Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds.

In the name of ‘scientific research’, Japan kills 333 minke whales, including over 200 pregnant females, in the Antarctic in 2015-16 whaling season.

A roughly 2,000-square-mile block of ice just broke off in the Arctic Ocean.

Greenland’s snow-white ice is getting darker and melting faster, according to a new study, published in the European Geosciences Union journal The Cryosphere.

The effects of climate change on food production could cause 500,000 extra deaths by 2050 compared to a world without global warming, according to a study released Thursday.

Arctic permafrost that is thawing due to global warming is releasing greenhouse gases, further compounding the problem of climate change, according to a study released on Thursday.

The world's oceans are rising at a faster rate than any time in the past 2,800 years, and might even have fallen without the influence of human-driven climate change, researchers say.

A Florida man is filmed taking photos with a shark after dragging it out of the ocean, where it washed ashore.

US scientists have modelled how a 1930s-like "dustbowl" drought might impact American agriculture today, and found it to be just as damaging.

Around 150,000 Adélie penguins are killed after a giant iceberg larger than a country grounded at Commonwealth Bay, blocking access to the sea and forcing the penguins to travel considerably longer distances to feed.

Watch Kevin Richardson in an amazing documentary first broadcasted by SKY TV about his animal conservationism, mainly lions and his acceptance into their pride.

A previously unknown population of at least 100 lions is discovered by a wildlife charity in a remote park in north-western Ethiopia.