Pandas, Pangolins, and China’s Fitful Attempts at Wildlife Conservation For all the positive steps that the country’s government has taken, implementation lags behind policy.

Pandas, Pangolins, and China’s Fitful Attempts at Wildlife Conservation For all the positive steps that the country’s government has taken, implementation lags behind policy.

White Rhinoceros Is Killed for Its Horn at Wildlife Park Near Paris The horn of the 4-year-old rhinoceros, named Vince, was sawed off in the episode, according to officials at the Parc Zoologique de Thoiry.

Inuit And Environmental Groups Overcome Distrust To Work Together In Arctic The relationship between Indigenous organizations and environmental NGOs used to be one of conflict and suspicion. But now these groups are working toget...

Beijing Fears Looking Impotent in the Face of Terror Islamic State’s brutal slaying of a Chinese hostage, followed by three Chinese rail executives’ violent deaths in Mali, accelerates pressure on Beijing to intervene in the world’s trouble spots.

Here's Why Environmental Groups Are Afraid to Speak Out in Canada's Election Three environmental charities told VICE News they're keeping quiet after government auditors told them last year not to appear partisan. One group was warned against even mentioning the 'Harper government'.

Obama Administration Warns Beijing About Agents Operating in U.S. Officials said that Chinese law enforcement agents covertly in this country are part of Beijing’s campaign to repatriate Chinese fugitives living abroad.

Beijing to Try Publicly Shaming Citizens Into Stopping Smoking A new ban on public smoking in the Chinese capital took effect Monday.

Biotech Startup Pembient Is Making Actual Rhino Horns, Sans Rhino There's a startup called Pembient that is 3D printing rhinoceros horns in a lab on the far edge of San Francisco. These are not horns that look like rhino horns. These are actual, genetically verifiable rhino horns. They just don't need a rhino in or Read more ... der to make them. That's good news for the very few rhinoceroses around the world. There are only 5 white rhinos left and the black rhinoceros is now officially extinct. The black rhino was thought to be extinct in 2006, but scientists have recently confirmed it.You see poachers have been killing off these big, beautiful free-roaming mammals, nearly wiping them off the face of the planet forever, just to rip out their horns. The horns are used as daggers in Yemen, and, it is believed in traditional Chinese medicine, that the rhino horn has healing powers. Pembient co-founder Matthew Markus, a software engineer by trade, has worked on various startups since the late 90's, but he really didn't like ...

Millions of Chinese Watched an Environmental Documentary This Weekend — And the Government Is... Created by a former Chinese television reporter, 'Under the Dome' depicts the country's notoriously bad air quality and could bring about greater scrutiny of government environmental policies.