Baby sloth welcomed at London Zoo
London Zoo kicks off the new year with the birth of Nova,the zoo's newest two-toed sloth.
London Zoo kicks off the new year with the birth of Nova,the zoo's newest two-toed sloth.
Snow melt flooded the bear’s hibernation den and it became stuck.
The Mexican government has banned tourist operations at the Isla Guadalupe, popular among sharks and tourists, upsetting many companies.
Bill Gates wants to build more high-voltage power lines. It’s the best way to support high electricity demand, he says. But there's a big problem.
Stella Berry was attacked by what officials believe was a bull shark, which have been recorded swimming up the Mississippi River as far as Illinois.
Is this it, Canada? Climate data shows who can expect even more snow this winter season.
As the snake farmer carefully milks the highly toxic Malayan pit viper, gripping the reptile’s neck with his bare hands as it sinks its fangs into a latex film, Dr Lawan Chanhome leans over.
This Florida water mammal lives around ponds and lakes. They can be aggressive at times, but it’s all for a good reason.
UPDATED 7:56 a.m. PT to correct a misspelling of Shannon McPhail's name. On a dreary gray day in late October, passers by gawked at a scene outside a hotel in Smithers, B.C. The charred remnants of several trucks sat in the parking lot in the wake of what police described as a “targeted attack” in the pre-dawn hours of the morning. Among the blackened wreckage were four police cruisers — marked and unmarked vehicles with the RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group, a special task force assigned
Transporation Saskatchewan came to a halt.
Final testing on the Muskrat Falls transmission system begins anew Tuesday. If the tests succeed, the megaproject on Labrador's Churchill River will have finally crossed the finish line, albeit five years later than initially projected. However, in the case of another failure, Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro will have to wait the better part of a year before trying again — a setback that would mean millions in added interest costs for the multibillion-dollar "boondoggle" whose price tag has near
Just days after being hit by a brutal ice storm, Texas could experience more severe weather early this week.
Strong winds and heavy rain are possible for Toronto on Thursday after a warm up that saw temperatures swing from the negative double digits to spring-like plusses. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the city, calling for 15 to 25 millimetres of rain and southwesterly gusts of 70 to 90 km/h from early morning through to the evening. The strongest winds are expected downwind of Lake Erie. The rain will begin over southwestern Ontario early Thursday, heading northeast th
STORY: Drone footage captured by Reuters gave a bird's-eye view of Hatay's landscape littered with mounds of rubble from collapsed buildings, while others stood precariously on an angle with long cracks and fissures slashing across their facades.Rescue teams worked early on Tuesday to reach people trapped in the rubble of buildings in southern Turkey as the death toll in the country from Monday's (February 6) earthquake continued to rise. The magnitude 7.8 quake hit Turkey and northwest Syria, toppling entire apartment blocks, wrecking hospitals, and leaving thousands more people injured or homeless.Nearly 8,000 people have been rescued from 4,758 buildings destroyed in the tremors a day earlier, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said in its latest statement.
Hundreds of used electric vehicle battery packs are enjoying a second life at a California facility connected to the state's power grid, according to a company pioneering technology it says will dramatically lower the cost of storing carbon-free energy. B2U Storage Solutions Inc, a Los Angeles-based startup, said it has 25 megawatt-hours of storage capacity made up of 1,300 former EV batteries tied to a solar energy facility in Lancaster, California. The project is believed to be the first of its kind selling power into a wholesale market and earned $1 million last year, according to Chief Executive Freeman Hall.
The philanthropist said he pays a company to offset his carbon footprint by removing C02 from the atmosphere
Incredible drone footage captured the scene as a huge shoal of sharks swam in waters off Queensland’s Sunshine Coast recently.Video by Scott Byron, a photographer based in Queensland who was camping on Teewah Beach, shows the large group of sharks swimming through the water. Byron told Storyful that after noticing splashing in the water, he “sent the drone up to check what it was” and was able to record the sharks. Credit: Scott Byron via Storyful
One year after the Super Bowl season was marred by a ban on Mexican avocado shipments, another threat has emerged: An environmental complaint that avocado growers are destroying forests that provide critical habitat for monarch butterflies and other creatures. The complaint, filed with the trilateral Commission for Environmental Cooperation, part of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade accord, accuses the Mexican government of failing to enforce its own laws on deforestation, water conservation and land use. Avocado orchards grow at about the same altitude and climate conditions as the pine and fir forests in Michoacan, where migrating butterflies gather each year.
London Zoo has released an insightful series of X-rays of its exotic creatures to showcase its work over the past 10 years. The images have been shared ahead of the conservation zoo's Vets In Action event this February, which will see children join the vet team during the spring half-term to learn more about their work.
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Police have arrested a man in connection with the theft of 12 squirrel monkeys from a Louisiana zoo last month. Joseph Randall, 61, was arrested and booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center. Officials are still investigating the whereabouts of the monkeys.