A creature with a long, snake-like body, many legs and a voracious appetite was recently discovered near Loch Ness in northern Scotland. ->

Who can resist an anti-award? This one is awarded by the Center for Biodiversity to those individuals who, if judged by their actions, would appear to consider greed and destruction of wildlife habitat as great virtues. The winner this time is a land speculator named Michael Winer. He's report...

The estimate also comes with a price tag for describing all these Earth species, most of which are still unknown: $364 billion.

Increasing land use and global warming will deal a devastating one-two punch to tropical forests by the end of the century. In some areas, plant and animal diversity will plummet by the year 2100.

It was the blockbuster environmental deal of a lifetime: Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced in 2008 that the state was going to buy 180,000 acres of wetlands from United States Sugar Corporation. The purchase would effectively close U.S. Sugar's doors for good and restore a critical drai...

What matters in the long-run is how truly special a species is in the grand scheme of life on Earth.

Burning fossil fuels could ultimately have profound consequences for ocean life.

After decades of war and internal conflict, it would be easy to assume that Afghanistan's wildlife has been as decimated as its infrastructure. Since the 1979 Soviet invasion, the country's had no systematic or serious management of land. An unsettled population has been forced to take wh...