At Least 20 Turtles Die in Bangladesh
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At least 20 endangered sea turtles have washed up dead along the southern Bangladesh coast over the last week.
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Salmonella from a pet turtle killed a four-week-old baby earlier this year in a case that showed the reptiles are not safe for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
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A fire raged through a congested slum in southeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing at least 21 people, including 10 children, a police official said.
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Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 20 people and left another 20 missing, after tropical storm Noel veered off its forecast course yesterday.
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UPDATE, SAT 4PM: The number of dead across the Caribbean from Hurricane Ivan is now at least 50. Grenada alone is reporting 34 deaths, with eight more bodies found today.
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Endangered turtles die shortly after hatching from their eggs. Fish float dead off the coast. Flaming oil sends waves of black smoke toward the city.
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Storms in eastern India and Bangladesh   have killed more than 170 people and left around 375,000   homeless over the past four days, officials said on Saturday.
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The death toll in Indonesia's latest ferry disaster rose to 20 as the navy continued a massive search for about 120 people still missing and a probe was launched into the tragedy.
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At least 21 endangered crocodile-like gharials are found dead in northern India, officials say.
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A government official confirmed that 23 tigers have died from bird flu at a private zoo in Thailand. The animals had been fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease.
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Severe diarrhea has killed nearly 200 people in Ethiopia and another 19,000 have fallen ill since April, according to the United Nations.
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The turtle is one of the longest-lived creatures Earth has known, but at least half of all turtle species are now in serious danger of extinction.
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SYDNEY - Nineteen whales died and 24 were rescued after 43 whales beached themselves on Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s southeast coast Sunday, the second beaching in Australian waters in 24 hours, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
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The number of people killed in mudslides in southern Bangladesh rises to around 118, officials say.
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Angry protests broke out in Bangladesh Sunday in reaction to a grenade attack that killed nearly 20 people at a political rally by the country&#39;s main opposition movement.
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The death toll from Hurricane Felix rises to at least 21, with more than 200 missing, officials in Nicaragua say.
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A U.S. study focusing on global sea turtle populations has found that half a dozen species are still endangered or threatened despite promising increases in the number of adult females and nests, U.S. wildlife officials said Thursday.