Fast-moving wildfires forces hundreds of people to leave their homes in mountains north of Los Angeles, California, the authorities say.

A massive fault could trigger a cataclysmic earthquake beneath Bangladesh, parts of east India and Myanmar, new research suggests.

Researchers say they have found the first clear evidence that the thinning in the ozone layer above Antarctica is starting to heal.

Volkswagen would repair or buy back polluting diesel vehicles and pay each owner as much as $10,000 under a $14.7 billion deal the car maker has reached to settle lawsuits stemming from its emissions cheating scandal, a person briefed on the settlement talks said Monday.

Wildlife officials in India order an inquiry after international cricketer Ravindra Jadeja posted photos online of him and his wife posing in front of endangered Asiatic lions.

The Dead Sea, the salty lake located at the lowest point on Earth, is gradually shrinking under the heat of the Middle Eastern sun. For those who live on its shores it's a slow-motion crisis - but finding extra water to sustain the sea will be a huge challenge.

Ivorian conservation agents are using the threat of eviction and prosecution to extort money from cocoa growers farming illegally in protected forest reserves, victims and rights groups say.

Officials in India "arrest" 18 lions as they try to find a man eater suspected of killing three people.

More than 80% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies, a study suggests.

The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse has arrived at New York's JFK airport after making the short trip from Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.

This year's monstrous El Nino, nicknamed Godzilla by NASA, is dead.

Thai authorities say they have detained a monk attempting to smuggle tiger skins and fangs from a Buddhist temple.

Wildlife authorities in Thailand have said they will press charges against a Buddhist temple where the bodies of 40 dead tiger cubs were found.

Zoo officials on May 29 shot dead a gorilla after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosure in the US city of Cincinnati.

Forty tiger cub bodies are found in freezer at a Thai Buddhist temple accused of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.

Wildlife authorities in Thailand begin removing tigers from a Buddhist temple, after accusations of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.

A new discovery about how clouds form may scale back some of the more dire predictions about temperature increases caused by man-made global warming.

Dosing farm animals with antibiotics increases greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, research suggests.

In one of the first examples of compassionate care and grief in a wild monkey, an alpha male of a group of snub-nosed monkeys and his dying partner spent a final, tender hour together before she passed away.

Florida wildlife experts express concern about three man-eating Nile crocodiles found in local swamps, amid fears more may be at large.