Animals

Many countries in southern Africa want to unload big stockpiles of ivory to fund conservation, even though the trade is banned.

“The first living being to know that I am a gay was my pet parakeet.”

Once teeming lakes are fast disappearing and with them, a lucrative career for tens of thousands of people in the region.

The region is the poster child for insecurities already brought on by global warming.

The Faroe Islands have a history of trading with everyone who will buy their fish. With growing tensions in the Arctic region, the islands are now receiving more attention from superpowers.

The ursine rogue’s adventure at the United Nations captures the institution’s problems—and hopes.

Like the Amazon rainforest, the planet’s whales play crucial roles as carbon captors. That’s just one reason to save them.

One Canadian province has virtually eliminated its vermin—and shows how others can too.

A very brief recent history of animals in foreign affairs.

When they’re not smuggling ivory and rhino horn, Africa’s most notorious criminal syndicates are stealing farm animals to make a 2,500-year-old traditional Chinese remedy.

Probably not. But here are some cats worth knowing from around the world anyway.

It's called 'Keeping Up With the Kattarshians.'

A nondescript pest is threatening African food stocks — and could be headed to Europe and Asia.

Though Kiev may contest the results of the competition, the contestants are paws-itively adorable.

Because soft diplomacy is more fun than hard power.

Why Secretary Kerry is Stopping in Antarctica Before Next Week’s Trip to Morocco for the U.N. Climate Change Summit

Plus, a sub that stays dry, a B2-inspired battery, and a DNA scanner that catches poachers red-handed.

Getting struck by lightning is, for humans, a statistical long shot. Less so for reindeer.

The Pacific lionfish has taken over the Caribbean, killing reefs and decimating local species. Could Whole Foods be the answer?

But it’s not Russian hackers you should be worried about.