KUMANO, Japan Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild.Is this sushi’s future? Tuna raised like chickens or cows?As the world’s love affair with raw fish depletes wild tuna populations, long-running efforts [...]

Photographer 33 year old has become a sensation online via a number of portraits of life in  Vienna zoo that attracted thousands of fans. However, the photographer is not always the photographer, but a female orangutan named Nonja. Some images documentation Nonja attracted more attention from the 18,000 fans on Facebook since the Vienna zoo [...]

CHICAGO – Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi River – an unprecedented step that could disrupt the movement of millions of tons of iron ore, coal, [...]

BILLINGS, Mont.- The head of Montana’s wildlife agency has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park to go to billionaire Ted Turner’s private ranch.
Officials hope to eventually use the bison to establish new herds on public lands. But conservationists see the move as privatizing Montana wildlife.The bison have [...]

Earl Cooley, who died November 9 at age 98, helped to develop the profession of sending firefighters by parachute to battle forest fires.Years ago, a young forester took an unusual new job. Earl Cooley became one of the first smokejumpers. Smokejumpers parachute from airplanes. They fight fires that crews cannot reach quickly or easily from [...]