Officials fear an extraordinarily dry spring presages a wildfire season like last year, when flames burned a record 6,562 square miles (16,996 square kilometers)

They managed to capture the fishing cat after two hours of frantic efforts and handed over the animal to the forest department

A vet will now assess the animal's health to determine if it is healthy enough to be released

Blue-and-yellow macaws live to be about 35 years old and Juliet - no spring chicken - should have found a lifelong mate years ago

All that remains of Al Aqiser, which has stood in Ain Tamr for more than 1,500 years, are crumbling brick and red earthen walls

Neanderthals, a close ancient cousin of Homo sapiens, are believed to have died out about 40,000 years ago

They’re lean, they’re mean and they’re green. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Not exactly, but hundreds of diamondback

A conservation project is trying to unlock the river for fish by creating routes around several weirs

Giant sequoias are the biggest trees in the world and can live up to 3,400 years

The GSI researchers noted that this is the first record of sauropods of probable Titanosaurian origin discovered in the region

They say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein had been granted a permit to shoot a female bear that had caused damage to some farms

Pollution is only the latest threat to one of the world’s largest inland delta systems

These spiders likely only live in the pine rockland habitat of southern Florida, which is "highly threatened

A fire broke out this morning at Daser Bharani area under Sharankhola Range of Sundarbans East Forest Division

Australia’s fire services regularly try to carry out “hazard reduction burning” outside summer months, clearing the forest floors of debris that can fuel wildfires

And frogmouths are quite rare

Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains

The scientists who found it say it shouldn't really have been there

The fossil gives a new insight into the transition of single-celled organisms to complex multicellular animals

Degradation of nature increases the likelihood of conflict, while wars devastate not only lives, but also the natural environment

This glacial melt has contributed to 21 percent of sea level rises in the study period, the researchers said — equivalent to 0.74 millimetres a year

A new species of tiny, neon orange toadlets was discovered in the mountains of Brazil

Authors of the study said the results showed that policymakers were facing a false choice between climate change mitigation and poverty reduction

The eruption occurred at 1:55 a.m. local time for 175 seconds

The 2021 federal budget includes 2.1bn reais (£280m; $380m) for the environment ministry and agencies it oversees

On a typical day, the picturesque district of Elmbridge would fit all the descriptors of any well-to-do English countryside locale

The announcement comes just weeks after the African forest elephant was declared critically endangered and the African savanna elephant was declared endangered

Thunberg, the world’s foremost young climate activist, has addressed members of the US Congress before, at a hearing in 2019

Most breeding in the U.S. occurs in Arizona and New Mexico, but the habitat designation also includes areas in California, Colorado, Utah, Texas and Idaho

The practice is known as “sowing” water, to be harvested later, after the rainy season, when it is needed to nourish people, crops and livestock

The entire tail, by our reconstruction at almost 1,000 kilos, was really just a mass supported by a rubber band and with every step it would slightly bounce up and down

This is the third dinosaur named from Chile and the third titanosaur from the western side of the Andes in South America

If you ask researchers who study the behaviour of fishing cats in the wild, they will tell you that it never backs off – Murthy Kantimahanti

Human encroachment disturbs the park’s wildlife in other ways too

The 12 rows of teeth on the shark’s lower jaw, for example, were still obscured by layers of sediment after excavation

It is the biggest illegal giant clam shell haul in the region

A68 will probably be best remembered as the first iceberg to become a star on social media

All of them went extinct in the wild -- and all of them came back, thanks to reintroduction programs

The scientists were led by Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute in the US, who, in 2017, helped make the first human-pig hybrid