After hugging an old tree on a New Taipei campus for over 35 hours, Green Party member Wang Chung-ming (王鐘銘) yesterday traded turns with two other volunteers in a bid to keep the tree from being pruned by the school.

Although the long-awaited spring rains finally arrived Thursday, the volume was hardly enough to refill the country's reservoirs, the Water Resource Agency (WRA) said.

Millions of people in Northern Europe are still battling snow and ice, wondering why they are being punished with bitter cold when — officially — spring has arrived and Earth is in the grip of global warming.

An Australian-led group of scientists has for the first time tracked down and tagged Antarctic blue whales by using acoustic technology to follow their songs, the government said Wednesday.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs convened a drought fighting meeting Tuesday to discuss possible measures that could be taken if the current dry spell persists.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is planning to “green” select cities and counties to mitigate Taiwan's dependence on nuclear energy.

The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife — clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction — is also threatening the survival of great apes, a new U.N. report says.

Scientists Tuesday made a rare live addition to the order of primates, unveiling two new species of mouse lemur — tiny, big-eyed animals that inhabit the forests of Madagascar.

Climate change is likely to make reef-building stony corals lose out to softer cousins in a damaging shift for many types of fish that use reefs as hideaways and nurseries for their young, a study showed.

The Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin — along with a slew of other landmarks around the world — went dark Saturday to draw attention to climate change. In a symbolic show of support for the planet, people across the continents switched off their lights for 60 minutes — all at 8:30 p.m. local time — to make “Earth Hour.”