LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - After facing a spring of harsh weather, rice farmers in Arkansas, the nation's top rice-producing state, have a new worry -- turtles.
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Eight countries with the largest number of elephants met for the first on Tuesday in New Delhi to plot new strategies to protect the animal.
WASHINGTON — The US government on Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could impact new oil and gas drilling projects in the Arctic.
The world's last wild tigers are "close to catastrophe", Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday at an unprecedented summit aiming to save the animal from extinction.
More than a fifth of the world's plant species faces the threat of extinction, a trend with potentially catastrophic effects for life on Earth, according to research released on Wednesday.
The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve while promising to protect critical migratory bird and caribou habitat.
More than a fifth of the world's plant species faces the threat of extinction, a trend with potentially catastrophic effects for life on Earth, according to research released on Wednesday.