Erin Conway-Smith and Amy SilversteinMarch 22, 2013 12:15

JOHANNESBURG — The trading of rhino horns is putting the beasts at risk of extinction. Yet legalizing the trade could actually help save the rhinoceros, according to South Africa's top environment official.

Jill LangloisMarch 22, 2013 09:43

16,000 dead pigs, 1,000 dead ducks found in China rivers

The number of dead pigs found in Chinese rivers has risen to 16,000, and 1,000 ducks have now been found floating down the South River in Pengshan county.

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900 pigs have been found dead floating down the Huangpu river near Shanghai. The river is used as drinking water by city residents. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

The dead pigs were recovered in the last two weeks in rivers that supply water to Shanghai.

Jill LangloisMarch 21, 2013 16:51

Thousands of dead prawns wash up on Chile beach (VIDEO)

Officials in Chile are investigating the death of thousands of prawns that washed onto a beach Wednesday, turning it red.

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A man looks al the thousands of shrimp found dead on the beach of Coronel, some 330 miles south of Santiago. A three-kilometer swath of southern Chile's coastline is carpeted in red: thousands of small prawns were stranded for no apparent reason, surprising locals and prompting an official investigation. Fishermen in the Coronel area began noticing something out of the ordinary at the beginning of the week — giant 'red spots' appearing just off the shore. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Hundreds of dead crabs washed up in the same area over the weekend.

Cambodia: Demining in the depths

Denise HrubyMarch 24, 2013 06:01

PHNOM PENH — In pitch-black waters, with only their hands to guide them, Cambodia’s first batch of salvage divers will soon start to recover the thousands of tons of unexploded artillery shells and munitions that lie at the bottom of the country’s lakes and rivers. But before they begin their perilous dives 30 meters below the water's surface, the volunteers must address first things first — and learn how to swim.

Enormous elephant seal blocks traffic in Brazil (VIDEO)

Faine GreenwoodMarch 20, 2013 14:37

An enormous elephant seal stopped traffic in the southern Brazilian town of Balneário Camboriú, shocking locals and causing an unexpected commuting obstacle.

BBC filmmaker Jason Roberts accused of disturbing polar bears

Amy SilversteinMarch 19, 2013 13:47

"I love them and have never bothered, disturbed or injured bears."

India: Leopards stalk Bollywood

Jason OverdorfMarch 20, 2013 06:01

MUMBAI — For residents of Aarey Milk Colony and other communities that border Sanjay Gandhi National Park, there is good reason to be afraid of the dark. Over the past decade, the leopards that stalk Bollywood have mauled or killed more than 100 people — even straying onto the studio lots of nearby Film City.

Rare whale skeleton discovered on Antarctica ocean floor

Faine GreenwoodMarch 19, 2013 09:53

Scientists have located a rare Minke whale skeleton on the floor of the ocean in Antarctica, not far from the South Sandwich Islands.

Samantha StainburnMarch 18, 2013 09:57

Roosters crow at dawn due to internal clock: study

Roosters crow at dawn due to their internal clock and not the rising sun, researchers have found.

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A rooster crows while sitting in a tree in Key West, Florida, on Feb. 16, 2003. (KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

Roosters crow at dawn due to their internal clock and not the rising sun, researchers have found.

" 'Cock-a-doodle-doo' symbolizes the break of dawn in many countries," scientist Takashi Yoshimura of Nagoya University said in a statement, according to LiveScience. "But it wasn't clear whether crowing is under the control of a biological clock or is simply a response to external stimuli."

Wildfire torches cabins in Tennessee

Amy SilversteinMarch 18, 2013 13:34

"Everybody that I know of has not been injured."