As the time nears for spring cleaning and companies offer more environmentally friendly alternatives to toxic cleaners, veterinarians say pet owners should keep in mind that what’s green to a human can be dangerous - even deadly - to animals.

The world’s main mechanism for restricting trade in wildlife kicked off in Bangkok Sunday with sharks, manta rays, polar bears, elephants and rhinos high on the agenda.

The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air jumped dramatically in 2012, making it very unlikely that global warming can be limited to another 2 degrees (1.2 C) as many global leaders have hoped, new federal figures show.

Crews on Sunday razed more than half of the Tampa-area home perched over a huge sinkhole that swallowed a man three days ago, managing to salvage some keepsakes for family members who lived there.

A thick fog is hovering above the jungle.

Thai authorities might be regretting their decision to host a meeting next week of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

It is not just honey bees that are in trouble. The fuzzy American bumblebee seems to be disappearing in the Midwest.

An environment official yesterday appealed to political candidates in Central Luzon not to use the trees along the highways in their political propaganda and avoid sticking or nailing campaign materials on trees.

One of Poland’s top veterinarians said Thursday that traces of horse-meat DNA have been found in beef samples taken from three meat processors - the first acknowledgement that the country could be a source of the horse meat that fraudulently ended up in processed meat products sold as beef across Europe.

With the end of decades-long conflict in south-central Mindanao in sight, environmentalists want to contribute to forging a permanent peace in Ligawasan Marsh, the island’s largest natural habitat that has seen many clashes in the past.

Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica's north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the coral, and in a cascade of ecological decline, the sea urchins and plant-eating reef fish have mostly vanished, replaced by snails and worms that bore through coral skeletons.

 When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was destroyed in an explosion and fire on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, Swiss-based Transocean not only lost nine employees and a multimillion dollar rig, its relationship with BP changed in an instant.

The big, yellow van rolls up outside a church hall in a poor Sydney suburb where Brian Willott and his volunteers wait to carry in boxes of surplus bread, vegetables and fruit donated by an Australian supermarket chain.

SM’s “Green Road to 50,000 Trees” project recently held a celebration to mark the planting of its 30,000th tree in SM City Baguio, coinciding with a photo exhibit held at the mall premises. The exhibit captured the highlights of the Green Road project, and it will run until summer.

Stormwater runoff can quickly drain a homeowner's wallet. The flooding erodes yards, soaks basements, pollutes streams and wastes a precious resource.

President Barack Obama is talking about climate change as if it were 2009.

Rome's Colosseum, one of the world's most famous monuments, is at risk of collapse from upcoming works to expand an underground station next to it, activists said Tuesday.

The government should nurture agriculture and pay more attention to the plight of farmers.

The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) with the participation of the country’s numerous water districts and of support of various local government units as well as other interested groups is holding a simultaneous nationwide Water Caravan on March 19-21, 2013 in celebration of the World Water Day that carries the global theme, “ Water Partnership.”

Already one of the most densely populated countries in the world, tiny land scarce Singapore is projecting its population to swell by a third over the next two decades.