A Kenyan and a Tanzanian pleaded guilty on Monday to illegal possession of ivory after being caught with hundreds of kilos of elephant tusks in one of east Africa's biggest seizures for years.

The two men were driving a car loaded with 512 kg (1,129 lbs) of tusks when they were arrested in Kenya on Saturday, 50 km (30 miles) from the Tanzanian border.

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Forests that today soak up a quarter of carbon pollution spewed into the atmosphere could soon become a net source of CO2 if Earth

The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday six emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are a danger to public health and welfare. Here are excerpts from the EPA's so-called endangerment finding, which opens the way for possible regulation of climate-warming pollution.

In what could be a historic moment in the struggle against climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday confirmed what most people have long suspected but had never been declared as a matter of federal law: carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases constitute a danger to public health and welfare.

Experts at a workshop yesterday called for expanding government and non-government partnership to build collaboration for protecting the Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sundarbans.

Joint cooperation among the stakeholders, especially the government and local NGOs, is necessary for conserving tigers to maintain the ecosystem of the world's largest salt-tolerant mangrove forest, they added.