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Amazon rainforest mapped in unprecedented detail

Scientists record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second.

Israeli company brings 'solar windows' to Wisconsin

(Text link to video) (Link to Article) Article: Israeli company brings ‘solar windows’ to Wisconsin

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World's giant trees are dying off rapidly, studies show

Ecological 'kings of the jungle' being toppled by forest fragmentation, severe drought and new pests and diseases.

Senior "Age" editor: Why we can't trust [Oz PM Julia] Gillard any more

Michael Short (a senior Age editor): "We have a duty to lead and inspire our young people, in particular.

FOTO FRIDAY: Beavers, natures hardest working architects.

  Near where I Live, there is a small natural lake, few by small seasonal streams and natural springs, I have been coming here since I was a small chiild and actually hunted and fished in the area. I even ran a trapline here when I was 10 yrs old.

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Transient man skinned and ate cat

Police found Russell Christopher Hofstad, 24, inside of the building with a painted face and wearing the tail and intestines of the cat around his neck, according to the documents.

Toad-savvy marsupials make a meal of quoll toll

A study has revealed that some small carnivorous marsupials in Northern Australia instinctively know how to avoid being poisoned by cane toads. The University of Sydney's Dr Jonathan Webb and his team have found that red-cheeked dunnarts from the Kimberley in Western Australia …

Sisters, only 5 and 3 years old, sell cookies to save animals

Victoria got serious when she enlisted the help of her three-year-old sister and together they began to save all of their money and allowance. Then they started selling cookies outside stores and garage sales

Yup, it's time to start drinking urine

That's the recommendation from a new report by the US National Research Council, who say reclaimed waste water is needed as a necessary substitute for the dwindling supply of freshwater. What's more, reprocessed urine might actually be cleaner than freshwater.

U.N. Human Rights Council Slams US State Terrorism, Citing 228 cases

Iran’s envoy Seyed Mohammad Reza Sajjadi: “The U.S.

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