Terror Wars
Wildlife group says poaching funds Somalia’s Shebab
Somalia's Shebab militia, which carried out a bloody attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall, is in part funded by the poaching trade, wildlife activists said Thursday.
Flora And Fauna
Wildlife numbers halved over past four decades: WWF
Wildlife numbers have plunged by more than half in just 40 years as Earth's human population has nearly doubled, a survey of over 3,000 vertebrate species revealed on Tuesday.
Flora And Fauna
Wildlife on a glidepath to ‘mass extinction’: Red List chief
Nearly 30 percent of the 138,374 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List are at risk of extinction, the global conservation body reported Saturday.
Flora And Fauna
Wildlife groups accused of funding abuses against Pygmies in Africa
Wildlife guards funded by the WWF and other conservation groups have carried out systematic abuses against tribes in central Africa, an activist group claimed on Monday.
Fire Storm
Wildfires threaten Russia’s unique Lake Baikal
Raging wildfires have turned the shores of the world's largest freshwater lake in Siberia into an inferno, threatening the health and livelihood of locals and raising questions about Russia's ability to protect its natural heritage.
Fire Storm
Wildfires rip through California wine country, thousands flee homes
Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in California's Napa Valley Monday as wildfires ripped through the region's world-famous wine country.
Froth And Bubble
Wildfires producing ‘witches’ brew’ of air pollution: UN
Wildfires are releasing a "witches' brew" of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away from the blaze, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday.
Fire Storm
Wildfires tear through western US during heatwave
Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures in the western United States have scorched thousands of acres, forcing hundreds of families to flee, US officials said Monday.
Fire Storm
Wildfires rage across drought-hit California
As many as 6,000 firefighters were battling Tuesday a wave of wildfires raging across California, which is gripped by a historic drought and near-record temperatures.
Fire Storm
Wildfires threaten California’s treasured Sequoias
Wildfires sweeping across California are threatening the US state's famed Sequoia trees, with firefighters scrambling to protect the national treasures.
Fire Storm
Wildfires hit Portugal’s tourist Algarve region
Portugal's Algarve tourist region was the latest to be hit by violent forest fires Thursday, prompting the evacuation of a luxury hotel and three hamlets, officials said.
Fire Storm
Wildfires break out in Portugal, Spain; McConaughey unveils ‘urgent’ California fire film ‘The Lost Bus’
Hundreds of firefighters battled fresh wildfires in Portugal and Spain on Saturday, civil protection authorities said, following a summer of devastating blazes in the region.
Fire Storm
Wildfire rages as California bakes under heat dome
Hundreds of firefighters endured triple-digit temperatures Thursday battling against a wildfire along a major highway, as the western United States bakes under a fearsome heat dome.
Fire Storm
Wildfire evacuees tempted not to vote in Canada election
On the front lines of global warming, evacuees from Lytton, a western Canadian village destroyed by wildfires in June, are detached and bitter about the upcoming September 20 snap elections.
Fire Storm
Wildfire in Namibia’s flagship park contained, says minister
A massive fire that has scorched through more than a third of Namibia's best-known national park has been contained, the environment minister said Monday.
Legacy Reports
Wild elephants kill six people in Nepal: police
At least six people have been killed in southern Nepal in rampages by wild elephants in the last two days, police said Saturday.