Eating unchecked homegrown vegetables and wild game from radiation-tainted areas on a regular basis can lead to high levels of internal radiation exposure, according to the results of a study publi

Before the sprawling Texas city of Houston and its suburbs were built, a dense forest naturally purified the coastal air along a stretch of the Gulf Coast that grew thick with pecan, ash, live oak

UNESCO is adding Japan’s Southern Alps mountain range and the Tadami beech forest to its global list of biosphere reserves, the government learned Thursday.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature announced Thursday that it put the Japanese eel on its list of species at risk of extinction.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 jolted northeastern parts of Japan on Sunday afternoon, the Meteorological Agency reported.

The crown prince of the oil-rich Mideast emirate of Abu Dhabi and other international donors committed a combined $80 million on Sunday to fund the conservation of tigers and other wild cats whose

An Australian farmer who lost his organic produce license after his fields were contaminated by a neighbor’s genetically modified canola crop has failed to win his test case for losses.

The United Nations is teaming up with top sailors to conduct scientific research in remote areas of the oceans during a nonstop race around the globe.

Almost a third of the world is now overweight, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.

Water sampled from a well at the crippled Fukushima No.