Red pandas are endangered with their numbers decreasing. The World Wildlife Fund estimates there are fewer than 10,000 left in the wild.

Animal testing remains legal in most of the world. Learn how the practice began—and is still performed—and how to know if your favorite cosmetics have been tested on animals.

Cactus leather can be used for handbags, shoes, furniture, and more. We look at its environmental impact and how it compares to cotton and leather.

The cork is boiled, marked, and cut. Afterward, cork planks are separated by quality. The cork will also go through a drying phase and be further washed and then treated for the industry in which ...

Identifying the Different Cottonwoods The three cottonwood subspecies found in the U.S. and Canada are similar in some ways—such as their tendency to grow tall—and different in others, like ...

From hardy flowers to fuzzy stems and berry bushes, these 15 tundra plants grow in the coldest biome on Earth thanks to these unique adaptations.

If you ate bananas before the 1950s, you most likely ate the Gros Michel original banana type. By the early 1960s, they had all been replaced by the Cavendish, which we still eat today. The ...

ALLEKO / Getty Images This oil-based moisturizer featuring chamomile oil is ideal for dry, irritated, itchy, or blotchy skin. Ingredients 1/2 cup argan oil 2 tablespoons sweet almond oil 10 drops ...

Palm oil is cheap and comes from a highly efficient oil palm crop that produces generous yields, year-round, with relatively little land. Yet, it can be horribly unsustainable. Demand for the ...

The Ferruginous hawk is North America's largest hawk species. Dennis Holcomb Photography / Getty Images One of the biggest, most obvious distinctions between hawks and falcons is size. The average ...

Because one human’s reeking stinky cheese is another man’s treasure, we present the world's most malodorous. Enjoy these top 17 stinky cheeses.

Donkeys and mules look a lot alike with their telltale long ears, broad heads, thin limbs, and short manes. Being the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare), it's safe to say ...