Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in ...

“We’re thrilled to see so many people joining in on the fun of naming our adorable pygmy hippo baby,” the Zoo wrote on its social media page. The excitement and global interest in Virginia ...

LUBERO, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 1 (Reuters ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals ...

In early December, international alarm bells went off because of a mysterious disease circulating in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... that about 900 people had fallen ill ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is asking for the public's help to choose a name for its newborn pygmy hippo. The female baby, born Dec. 9 to parents Iris and Corwin ...

She may be young, but she makes sure people know who’s in charge. “She’s a curious and brave little pygmy hippo. She, like I said, she walks first. She’s pretty funny. She sometimes has ...

Earlier this year, another baby pygmy hippo took the internet by storm. Moo Deng, a newborn at a zoo in Thailand with a penchant for trying to bite people, captured the hearts of people far and ...

A female pygmy hippopotamus delivered a healthy calf ... She was also the second calf to be born in December, according to the zoo. “Most people don’t get a hippopotamus for Christmas at ...

"We’re thrilled to see so many people joining in on the fun of naming our adorable pygmy hippo baby." "We’re thrilled to see so many people joining in on the fun of naming our adorable pygmy ...

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point, Indigenous people will have been a determinant factor,” Miller said. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of ...

A mysterious illness outbreak in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has now been identified as an acute respiratory infection complicated by malaria, health officials said on Friday.

Nearly 900 people have become ill and 48 have died, most of them children under age 5, according to the WHO. “This event highlights the severe burden from common infectious diseases (acute ...