Thousands of dead octopuses wash up on Portugal beach

By Martha Ann Overland / Hanoi Thursday, Mar. 04, 2010 Every year, even at the peak of Vietnam's dry season, when the Red River is at its lowest, Hanoi's skilled captains manage to negotiate their flat-bottomed boats through its shallow...

By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.comNovember 10, 2009 Forty percent of lowland forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) were cleared from 1990 to 2005, reports a high resolution assessment of land cover change in Indonesia. The research, conducted by Matthew...

It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil -- and the people and places that make it -- was my obsession. By Peter Maass The canoe that carried me into the Niger Delta had an...