Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

As we enter the dog days of summer, people will try all sorts of things to escape the heat, from sweating in front of a fan to drinking a piping hot cup of tea (which actually does help). But body ...

Pooping in the news: Why other animals don't need or use toilet paper Pooping positions have recently been in the news, especially a recent study about how dogs line themselves up with the Earth's ...

Hippopotamuses can eat nearly 100 pounds of food daily—and, as a result, they fill the pools where they spend much of their lives with huge amounts of poop. All that excrement, new research has found, ...

Three-toed sloths descend from the canopy about once a week to defecate, risking predation during one of the most dangerous moments of their lives. A single sloth bowel movement can account for up to ...

Restoring degraded forests can be expensive and complicated, but Brazilian researchers may have a simple technique to add to the restoration toolbox: enlisting fruit-eating animals to spread seeds. A ...

Pooping in the news: Why other animals don't need or use toilet paper Pooping positions have recently been in the news, especially a recent study about how dogs line themselves up with the Earth's ...

Hottest day, hottest week, hottest month, and – increasingly likely – hottest year; 2023 has garnered unwanted records as the climate crisis escalates. Animals, like humans, are greatly affected by ...