Stunning new species of Japanese orchid discovered hiding in plain sight

Japanese researchers have identified a new orchid species near Hachijo Island, giving it the name Spiranthes hachijoensis.  Over a decade ag...

Leopard caught on CCTV killing and dragging away pet dog from home in India

Shocking CCTV footage captured a stray leopard entering a village in Pune, India, to kill and drag away a resident’s pet dog.  The leopard w...

HelloFresh drops Thai coconut milk due to monkey slave labor

Germany-based meal delivery company HelloFresh will stop selling coconut milk sourced from Thailand due to the country’s use of monkey slave...

Rare footage captures majestic tigress and three cubs in Thai rainforest

A tigress and three cubs were captured on camera in a 20-second video uploaded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on Thursday.  The wildlife c...

Lea Salonga to return to Broadway in David Byrne and Fatboy Slim musical ‘Here Lies Love’

Tony and Olivier Award-winner Lea Salonga will make a guest appearance in the Broadway musical “Here Lies Love” by David Byrne a...

Japan’s islands double in number to over 14,000 after recount

The number of islands in Japan has doubled since 1987, a new survey of the country has found.  With the help of digital mapping technology, ...

Vietnamese police discover 2,000 dead cats intended for use in traditional medicine

Vietnamese police have discovered the bodies of 2,000 dead cats that were intended for use in traditional medicine. The dead felines were un...

Hawaii, Washington move to ban octopus farms

Hawaii and Washington state are looking to shut down or outright ban octopus farms, with the former recently ordering the closure of a contr...

How a female gibbon locked in a cage alone in Japan got pregnant

Zookeepers of a zoo in Japan believe they have finally figured out how a female gibbon got pregnant despite living alone in her cage. In Feb...

Cleaner fish can recognize themselves in mirrors and photos, study claims

A newly updated study has found that the blue streak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, may be capable of recognizing themselves in refle...

Study: Rising sea level 26,000 years ago caused migration between South, Southeast Asia

A new study discovered that early settlers in the Southeast Asian region were forced to migrate to South Asia after sea levels began to ris...

China’s clean heating policies may have saved over 23,000 lives: study

Stricter clean heating policies in China have led to a significant reduction in air pollution and may have saved thousands of lives, accordi...

‘Vo Sinh Dai Chien’: Film touted as the Vietnamese ‘Karate Kid’ headed to Netflix

Martial arts film “Vo Sinh Dai Chien” (“The Battle of Pupils”), which has been touted as the “Vietnamese ‘The Karate...

Heartbreaking video shows mother elephant desperately trying to revive newborn calf

The Zurich Zoo in Switzerland recently uploaded a heartbreaking video showing an elephant and her mother desperately attempting to revive a ...

Look: Adorable panda cubs wave goodbye to the panda-monium that was 2022

An adorable bunch of panda cubs are waving goodbye to 2022 and hello to the New Year. A group of 13 pandas born this year at the Chengdu Res...

Chinese farmer uses AI to save hundreds of newborn goats

A man who once worked in the finance industry in Shanghai now uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help reduce the mortality rate of goats g...

Malaysia’s deadly floods force more than 72,000 people to evacuate

A monsoon in Malaysia has triggered landslides and rural flooding, forcing more than 72,000 people to evacuate their homes. The country’s no...

Malaysian boy narrowly escapes crocodile attack over a week after infant killed by croc

A 7-year-old Malaysian boy from the Sabah district of Lahad Datu narrowly escaped a crocodile attack by kicking himself free on Thursday. ...

Singapore serves lab-grown meat to world leaders at COP27 climate conference

Singapore hosted a dinner co-organized with The Good Food Institute APAC and meat company Good Meat that served lab-grown meat on Nov. 14 d...

Man in China arrested for killing 1,000 birds ‘for hotpot’

A man in the Chinese province of Zhejiang was arrested for killing 1,000 protected birds that he said he intended to cook in hotpots. Wu, ...

Thai coconut industry fueled by ‘rampant’ monkey slave labor, investigation reveals

In a press release on Monday, animal advocacy group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called out the meal delivery service...

Elephant calf appears to salute woman who helped it get out of mud in viral video

A video of a woman helping a baby elephant stuck in the mud has gone viral. In response to the woman’s act of kindness, the baby elephant ...

Bua Noi, the ‘world’s loneliest gorilla,’ has been caged in a Thailand shopping mall for 33 years

Since 2015, the Thai government and the animal rights group PETA have been fighting for Bua Noi, the “world’s saddest gorilla,” to be relea...

Nonprofit’s investigation exposes rampant animal abuse in 8 elephant attractions in Thailand

Nonprofit organization Lady Freethinker (LFT) released a report exposing the abusive treatment that elephants have been subjected to in eig...

16 families purchase land to create first Hmong-owned and operated farm in US history

Hmong farmers with the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) purchased 155 acres of land in Dakota County, Minnesota. The recent purch...

‘I cannot find the right and common sense’: Olympic skiers criticize Asian Winter Games set in Saudi Arabia desert

Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it won the bid to host the next Asian Winter Games in 2029 at its planned TROJENA resort that will b...

Thailand to impose total ban on plastic scrap imports by 2025

Thailand will be implementing a plan of action in three phases that will culminate in a total ban on plastic scrap imports by 2025. The fi...

Pitbull named ‘Nazi’ mauls 60-year-old owner in Thailand

A pitbull named “Nazi” mauled its 60-year-old owner after it saw her feeding a stray dog on Monday in Nakhon Ratchasima province in Thailan...

Elephant is caught on CCTV trampling monk to death in Thailand

Phra Prachon Suksingh, a 66-year-old Buddhist monk, was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chanthaburi province, Thailand, on Saturday...

Sightseeing train in Japan is fueled by used cooking oil, discarded ramen soup lard

Takachiho Amaterasu Railway, a train company operating in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, started using biodiesel fuel created from used tempur...

The ultimate clean energy? Scientists create green hydrogen fuel from air

A team of scientists has managed to invent a device that could turn water from the air into green hydrogen fuel, according to a Nature Comm...

Indonesian monkeys use stones as sex toys, researchers find

Researchers studying the activity of over 170 long-tailed macaques living at the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in central Bali between 201...

Chinese scientists successfully create world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes

Chinese scientists have successfully recombined a mouse’s chromosomes to create the world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes.  Usi...

Marine mammals that inspired ancient mermaid tales are now ‘functionally extinct’ in China

The dugong — a marine mammal that purportedly inspired ancient mermaid tales — has been declared “functionally extinct” in China due to the...

Vietnamese father in Texas wrestles alligator outside his home using tips from late Steve Irwin

A Vietnamese father and restaurant owner in Missouri captured an alligator outside of his home by remembering what the late Steve Irwin did...

Overworked elephant rips Thai owner in half

A 20-year-old male elephant named Pom Pam reportedly ripped his owner, Supachai Wongfaed, in half using his tusks in the Thai province of P...