Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...

Hippos are dangerous — highly territorial and fiercely protective of their young. They are capable of capsizing boats and ...

A major new report released July 15th warns that wetlands, among the world’s most valuable yet most threatened ecosystems, ...

In the heart of Africa's most remote rainforest lies Dzanga Bai, a forest clearing where shy, elusive elephants gather in astonishing numbers. It is a place so wild and untouched, it's been called the ...

On June 27th the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo stood smiling in the Oval Office next to ...

It is fascinating that some of the most splendid prose in the Hebrew Bible emerges from the mouth of Balaam, a brilliant poet ...

Three schoolchildren were killed and two others, including the driver, sustained serious injuries after a passenger train rammed into a school van — carrying four students — which was attempting to ...

ESA’s Biomass satellite reveals hidden carbon, forests, and terrain using advanced radar that sees through trees, sand, and ice.

The US democracy sold as pure, moral and unprecedented is increasingly under lens.  Behind the facade of democratic virtue lies a history of conquest, slavery and imperialism; carefully constructed na ...

The US demands that the Lebanese cabinet approve a plan on the disarmament of Hezbollah as Israeli attacks in south Lebanon continue despite a ceasefire.

We have been deceived—again and again—into believing that U.S. democracy was born as a noble product of collective will. The ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.