China’s successful rebranding of the giant panda has created an unexpected challenge for Beijing, as it aims to balance its use of the animals for soft power abroad against the demands of an adoring ...

People are drawn in by the bears’ charm and sweetness and before they know it, they’re hooked: spending hours staring through ...

Friday's debut of new pandas at the National Zoo in D.C. is the latest chapter in a long tale of "panda diplomacy" between ...

The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., is gearing up to debut its newest giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, on Friday.

Were China to fetch up in the American hemisphere — a naval presence in Panama’s waters for instance — will the world complain about the counterbalance to US unipolarity?

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Smithsonian/Roshan Patel Not many animals look like a giant panda. With their black eye patches, round faces and an overall teddy bear-like appearance, these rare and vulnerable animals are instantly ...

The zoo worked closely with Chinese experts to transform the panda habitat into a panda paradise, complete with fresh landscaping, a new pool and stimulating climbing structures. Matthew Sellers ...

That’s what he told PEOPLE with a smile as he took a break from helping build Habitat for Humanity houses in Nashville, Tenn. For 36 years, he and wife Rosalynn Carter have led an annual build ...

The giant panda is considered an “umbrella species”, which means that conserving panda habitat benefits many other animals and plants that also live in bamboo groves. Famously, giant pandas ...

In this third installment, we enter rural communities that overlap with the giant panda's habitat, where residents now hold the new identity of panda guardians. Since the establishment of the ...