Forty percent of Liberia's forests have been sold off in secretive and often illegal contracts, Global Witness said Tuesday, just days after the country's president announced a probe into the issuing of logging permits. More »Liberia forests sold off in secret logging contracts: report
African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's communications and IT ministers. More »Africa eyes joint space agency
A retired Cuban veterinarian has found a new direction rescuing rare birds, breeding parrots and peacocks, winning enough feathered-world fame to swap fowl with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. More »Birds far from angry in Cuban vet's sanctuary
Natto, the Japanese breakfast dish of fermented soybeans, has a smell likened to sweaty feet but researchers have come up with an unlikely way of making it less whiffy -- using bacteria from Chinese dust clouds. More »Chinese dust cloud 'improves smelly Japanese dish'
A huge Dutch super-trawler was Tuesday given the go-ahead to fish in Australian waters but with tough conditions to minimise by-catch such as dolphins, seals and sea lions. More »Super-trawler cleared to fish in Australian waters
The United Nations warned Tuesday of a possible repeat of the 2007-2008 food crisis and called on world leaders to act quickly to prevent a catastrophe which would affect tens of millions of people. More »UN urges action to avert global food crisis
The European Environment Agency (EEA) on Tuesday unveiled an interactive map indicating the heatwave risk for European cities six decades from now on the basis of likely global warming trends. More »South Europe cities 'face 50 days above 35 degrees'
The International Paralympic Committee on Monday defended its policy on artificial running blades for amputee athletes, insisting it was the best possible system. More »Science 'unclear' over Pistorius claims
Bangladesh said on Monday that nine forest officials had been suspended for "gross negligence" after three Bengal tiger cubs were found in a house in Dhaka where they were being kept by smugglers. More »Bangladesh suspends officials over tiger smuggling
Fuel leaking from a Turkish freighter wreck that has been smashed up by a storm has contaminated at least five penguins on South Africa's Robben Island, emergency services said Sunday. More »Robben Island penguins hit by fuel from wrecked tanker
A major international conference reviewing the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan in March 2011 wrapped up Friday calling for more to be done to improve nuclear safety. More »Post-Fukushima meeting calls for more work on nuclear safety
Workers have discovered hundreds of bones belonging to Ice Age animals, including mammoths, mastodons and glyptodons, while digging to build a wastewater treatment plant north of Mexico City. More »Mexico wastewater project uncovers Ice Age bones
The drought experienced in some parts of the world is unlikely to impact heavily on Europe's crop harvests, the European Commission said Friday in its production forecast for 2012-2013. More »Europe cereal crop harvest drops just 2.2%
Russia on Friday denied plans to impose a ban on grain exports amid a drought that prompted the world's third-largest wheat exporter to lower its output forecasts for the second time in a week. More »Russia rejects wheat export ban
A Thai state-owned firm on Thursday admitted four charges over a huge oil spill off northwestern Australia, the country's worst ever offshore drilling accident. More »Thai firm pleads guilty over Australian oil spill
A massive super-trawler docked in Australia Thursday despite blockade attempts by Greenpeace activists who accuse it of depleting global fisheries and called on the government to turn it away. More »Super-trawler docks in Australia despite protests
Astronomers using a powerful radio telescope in Chile said Wednesday that they had discovered sugar molecules, one of the building blocks of life, orbiting a young star similar to the Sun. More »Chilean telescope finds sugar molecules near star
A scrap of bone found in a cave in Siberia has shed light on the genetic odyssey of an enigmatic group of humans called the Denisovans, scientists reported on Thursday. More »DNA scan sheds new light on mankind's mysterious cousins
World climate change negotiators faced warnings Thursday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in Bangkok. More »Storms, drought overshadow UN climate talks
France's 2012 grape harvest will be "exceptionally small" at 42.5 million hectolitres, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said Thursday. More »France's 2012 grape harvest 'exceptionally small'
The world's largest marine park, a vast swathe of ocean almost twice the size of France, has been unveiled by the Cook Islands at the opening of the Pacific Islands Forum. More »World's largest marine park unveiled
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and their son Sean Lennon on Wednesday launched "Artists Against Fracking" to oppose the technique for natural gas extraction in an important New York state water region. More »Yoko Ono leads stars against 'fracking'
Thousands of Morocco's unemployed slum-dwellers head to the Atlantic coast every morning to scrape a living as illegal mussel pickers. But experts say they threaten the health of the marine ecosystem. More »Morocco's illegal mussel pickers ply non-eco trade
A vast outcrop of the Arctic Siberian coast that had been frozen for tens of thousands of years is releasing huge carbon deposits as rising temperatures thaw parts of its coastline, a study warned Wednesday. More »Thawing permafrost frees millions of tons of carbon: study
Scientists said on Wednesday they had identified a genetic variant that influences gait in horses, a potential boon for breeders but also for the quest to fix human spine injuries. More »DNA test to help identify superhorses
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