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European Union bans all cosmetics tested on animals

Three shark species given additional Cites protection

Outrage of the Day: Guinea pig-gate

In Asia, tide slowly turning against shark fin soup

Freaked out by horsemeat? Try an in vitro beef burger

Beyond horsemeat

HIV cure: a game changer or just a lucky little girl?

Bee attack in South Africa leaves 44 children injured

Scientists developing a miracle "red wine pill" that's like drinking 100 glasses a day

Flowers get bees high on nectar and coming back for more

Canada's glaciers in an irreversible melt, say scientists

On Location Video, Mongolia: Cleaning up one of the world's most polluted cities

Vatican's ancient library is set to go digital

On Location Video, Mongolia: Cleaning up one of the world's most polluted cities

Signs of life below Antarctica's ice, Russian scientists say

Salt causes autoimmune diseases, study says

Camel fossil found in Canada's High Arctic region

More gun laws add up to fewer gun-related deaths, new study concludes

Viking sunstone may have been found in shipwreck

Locusts swarm Israel

¿Como se dice R&D? South America’s still learning how

Tehran rats outgrowing cats, surviving poison, but not snipers

Falkland Islands wolf arrived via ice bridge, scientists claim

Outrage of the Day: Elephant killed by train in Indian wildlife reserve

Second sinkhole emerges in Tampa, near site of deadly accident (VIDEO)

Thai Prime Minister Shinawatra promises to end controversial ivory trade

Sharks pushed to the edge of extinction by global overfishing

Florida sinkhole threatens neighbors, victim likely dead (VIDEO)

Volcanoes may explain why Earth didn't warm as much as expected

Japanese whaling ships have left the Southern Ocean, says Sea Shepherd

Man trapped in massive Tampa sinkhole under his home (VIDEO)

Australia confirms hottest summer on record, amid rising temperatures globally

Dust and microbes in Sahara cause snow in the Sierra Nevada

Radiation ring found around Earth by NASA

Watch helicopter rescue deer trapped on frozen lake (VIDEO)

Arsinoe IV: Cleopatra's murdered sister found in Turkey ruins

Shell suspends Arctic drilling for 2013

Millionaire Dennis Tito plans manned mission to Mars in 2018 (VIDEO)

Cyclone (Hurricane) Rusty menaces coast of Western Australia, shutting down iron ore port

Stretchable, flexible battery created by scientists (VIDEO)

Video of the Day: Animals give you tough love

The mystery behind long-necked dinosaurs

India launches asteroid-spotting satellite into space

Pluto moon naming contest: ‘Vulcan’ is the frontrunner

Less snow globally in the future, study shows

Gigantic goldfish threaten Lake Tahoe (VIDEO)

New England braces for third snowstorm in as many weekends

Dennis Tito, millionaire space tourist, to announce private 2018 trip to Mars

More leaking nuclear tanks found at Hanford waste site (VIDEO)

Stunning video from Etna eruption (VIDEO)

Giant swarm of what may be insects shows up on New Zealand radar

Artificial human ear bioengineered with help of 3D printer (VIDEO)

Study: Dolphins call each other by name

Japanese turn against whaling

Prince Edward Island seal deaths: Teens arrested for killing 50 seals

Lost Antarctic penguin found in New Zealand

Pat Derby, 'Lassie' and 'Flipper' trainer and animal rights activist, dies at 69

Copernicus Google Doodle marks astronomer's 540th birthday

Assam rhino poaching: 9 rhinos killed so far this year

Water on the moon? Native water found in lunar rocks

Jupiter moon Europa 'likeliest to have life'

Ancient humans had better teeth than we do, study suggests

Suspected poisoning spree kills sun bear, racehorse at Malaysian zoo

Moon passes close to Jupiter in rare celestial encounter

"Super-pod" of dolphins spotted in California (VIDEO)

Lab rats given "sixth sense" after brain implants (VIDEO)

Russia begins clean-up process after meteorite explosion

Is the Brazilian Amazon shrinking faster?

Minke whale allegedly harpooned in Australian waters by a Japanese vessel (VIDEO)

Hanford Nuclear Reservation, America's most polluted site, leaking radioactive waste

Russia Meteor: We're all going to die! But when? And how?

Russian meteor memes, translated

Meteorite explosion over Russia injures 1,200 (LIVE BLOG)

Tyrannosaurus fossil embroiled in custody case will be returned to Mongolia

Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants Styrofoam ban

New species of owl with distinctive territorial song identified in Indonesia

Black hole discovered after bizarre supernova

Controlling parents give their kids depression, study shows

Shark attacks hit 12-year high in US, with Florida worst for ocean lovers (VIDEO)

Sars-like virus infects its tenth victim

World's largest crocodile dies in the Philippines, provoking local mourning (VIDEO)

Colombia: A day without cars but plenty of traffic

Dinosaur extinction: scientists come up with most precise date yet

Winter is here: The worst winter storms and blizzards around the world (PHOTOS)

All dogs in Britain must have microchips by 2016, government says (VIDEO)

Fish navigate using Earth's magnetic fields, study shows

Is Asteroid 2012 DA14 a threat to Earth? Q & A (VIDEO)

World's oldest living bird gives birth to a hatchling at the age of 62

Fuzzy South Africa fur seal caught on tape killing and eating...sharks (VIDEO)

Largest prime number yet discovered