Coral comeback: Reef 'seeding' in the Caribbean
Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica's north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the ...
New management plan for Alaska petroleum reserve
A new management plan for the vast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska splits the Indiana-size area roughly in half between conservation areas and land ...
Alaska state senator proposes bounty on sea otters
An Alaska state senator is proposing a bounty on sea otters, the cute little marine mammals often seen by tourists swimming on their backs between ...
Chinese dare officials to swim in polluted rivers
A Chinese businessman angry about a filthy river made an equally dirty dare: He'll give an environmental official about $32,000 just for swimming in ...
Costa Rica toughens stance in US-backed drug fight
On a recent Friday morning at a gleaming new international airport in Costa Rica, hundreds of tourists from New York and Minnesota emerged blinking ...
3 charged in smuggling horns of endangered rhinos
Three people have been charged with participating in an international smuggling ring that traffics in the horns of endangered black rhinos. The U.S.
LBJ and Lady Bird courtship love letters released
Days after the congressional aide met the University of Texas history and journalism graduate in Austin, he boldly proposed marriage. Claudia Alta ...
NY health chief: Longer gas-drilling study needed
Environmental groups praised state regulators for delaying a decision on shale gas development until a more in-depth health study is finished, but ...
Animal welfare groups sue to end Midwest wolf hunt
The Humane Society of the United States and other animal welfare groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the ...
Dogs cross species barrier, help cheetahs survive
It may sound like a West Side Story-style love story, but some dogs love big cats. Cheetahs are the fastest mammals in the world, but they also are ...
Calif. great white sharks get protections for now
The most feared predator in the ocean received new protections today when a California commission decided the great white shark should be studied as ...
Obama picks outdoor retail exec to lead Interior
President Barack Obama's choice for interior secretary is a lifelong outdoors enthusiast who likes to bike, ski and climb mountains. As president and ...
Solar development absorbing Calif. farmland
There's a land rush of sorts going on across the nation's most productive farming region, but these buyers don't want to grow crops. They want to ...
Sandy's wake leaves shore birds in dire straits
When red knots descend on the beaches of Delaware Bay this spring famished from their marathon flight toward the Canadian Arctic from the tip of South ...
APNewsBreak: Feds: Warming imperils wolverines
The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate ...
Indiana couple vows to fight fawn rescue charges
Jeff Counceller says a dying fawn he found on someone's porch three years ago surely wouldn't have lived had he and his wife not nursed it back to ...
Russian activist in intensive care after stabbing
A 63-year-old municipal legislator who opposed a construction project that would destroy a forest just outside Moscow was in intensive care Friday ...
Chile aims to focus summit on its brighter side
European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering for this weekend's economic summit will likely see only one side of Chile — the polished, ...
Guyana pledges to protect jaguars
The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator ...
South Africa: vets struggle to treat hurt rhinos
A high-value target survives two attempts on her life. After recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, she is secretly moved to an undisclosed location ...
Interior chief Salazar stepping down in March
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversaw a moratorium on offshore drilling after the BP oil spill and promoted alternative energy sources ...
Greek gold mine savior to some, curse to others
Barbed wire cuts across woodland patrolled by dozens of private security guards. Burly and stony-faced, they demand identity cards from anyone trying ...
Federal judge lifts ban on Nevada horse roundup
The Bureau of Land Management can resume its roundup of dozens of wild mustangs in northern Nevada, but wranglers must limit their use of electric ...
Indian park battles poachers targeting rhino horn
Out of the early morning mists and tall grass of northeast India emerges a massive creature with a dinosaur-like face, having survived millions of ...
1 year later, lone gray wolf still prowling Calif.
He doesn't like busy Interstate 5 or eating cattle, at least so far. He gets along with his distant cousins the coyotes, likes to swim and roams a lot ...
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