Mother Nature can be merciless, but human activity sometimes far outweighs her cruelty. Some of the world's most tragic extinctions came not from storms or biological factors, but from our own hands.

The last Caspian tiger in northeastern Iran’s Golestan Province was seen in the 1950s, and the subspecies was declared extinct in the early 2000s. These fearsome animals once freely roamed the ...

Last fall, Beirut aka Zach Condon released Hadsel, his first new album in more than four years. In March of this year, Condon contributed trumpet to Efterklang's "Getting Reminders." Today, ...

When I was first approached about writing a soundtrack for a circus, a certain amount of Elephant Gun era trauma initially came rushing up. I had been pigeon-holed for years as a whimsical circus waif ...

Following up on their success in reviving the threatened saiga antelope population, authorities in Kazakhstan are attempting to reintroduce tigers to an area near Lake Balkhash. Caspian tigers, also ...

ASTANA, 1 April (BelTA - Kazinform) - According to the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan, the decline in the snow leopard population in Kazakhstan is affected not only by hunters ...