He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary ...

In a potentially big step towards achieving its target of sustainable growth by 2020, China's government is developing a green measure of gross domestic product (GDP). We suggest that the country's ...

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FOLLY BEACH — Beachgoers have been shell-shocked to see leatherback sea turtles — an endangered species, swimming along the coast of South Carolina. The leatherback is the largest turtle in the world, ...

On Tuesday the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission announced the death of what’s believed to be the world’s largest common snapping turtle, a prehistoric-looking specimen known as Big Snap Daddy. The ...

The Committee for Programme and Coordination is the main subsidiary organ of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly for planning, programming and coordination. It reviews the ...

Bumpy-backed wood turtles — about the size of dessert plates and typically an earthy green-brown in color with yellow markings — were once quite common across the northeastern United States and upper ...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WOOD) — A giant snapping turtle is going viral across West Michigan after he was brought to a local sanctuary last week. The Michigan Amphibian & Reptile Sanctuary says its ...

The voices were already rising when I walked into the yard of the youth detention center in Bogotá. Carlos Andrés stood face to face with another young man, his body tense, his eyes fixed, the kind of ...

This illustration shows the size difference between a European pond turtle and the foot of a straight-tusked elephant. Nicole Viehofer / Monrepos (Leiza) While living in central Europe roughly 125,000 ...

Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale' Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam Europe’s long drought of 2011 Canada's war in the woods The clean-up of Chernobyl The ...