Elephant poaching costs Africa tourism $25mn: study
PARIS, France (AFP) -- Stopping the killing of elephants for their tusks could add some $25 million (23 million euros)…
8 years ago
Environment
17,000 river turtles released in Peru national reserve
PACAYA SAMIRIA NATIONAL RESERVE, Peru (AFP) -- Peru frees 17,000 yellow-spotted river turtles in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. Each year,…
8 years ago
Nicaragua fishermen dread construction of Atlantic-Pacific canal
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) -- Peasants in southern Nicaragua, whose lands will be expropriated for a project to build an Atlantic-Pacific canal,…
8 years ago
Whaling: The hunters and the hunted
Portorož, Slovenia | AFP | by Mariëtte Le Roux -- Thirty years into a moratorium on commercial whaling, hundreds of the…
8 years ago
WATCH: New video of “the world’s saddest polar bear” released in Beijing
GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) -- A new video of a polar bear that has been kept captive in a Chinese shopping mall…
8 years ago
Australia set for more heatwaves amid climate change: study
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Australia is set to experience more heatwaves, with record-breaking hot weather becoming "normal" across the continent…
8 years ago
Antarctic glacier thinning more rapidly than thought: study
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- A large glacier in West Antarctica lost up to half a kilometer in…
8 years ago
‘Many more’ corals die in Great Barrier Reef bleaching
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- More corals are dying and others are succumbing to disease and predators after the worst-ever bleaching on…
8 years ago
Air pollution can affect blood pressure: study
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- Long-term exposure to urban air pollution incrementally increases the risk of high blood…
8 years ago
Endangered lowland gorilla born at the San Diego Zoo
(Reuters) -- A western lowland gorilla, part of a critically endangered species, was born at the San Diego Zoo…
8 years ago
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