Chile's Indians take on world's largest gold miner
The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world's highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember ...
Calif. plastic ocean debris bill dies in committee
A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the ...
Barrick fined $16m for Pascua-Lama violations
Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday and imposed its maximum fine on the world's ...
Wyden: FracFocus a 'constructive' tool on drilling
A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public ...
Report card: Great Lakes still have big problems
A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive ...
Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean
The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges ...
Scenic, struggling S. Illinois braces for oil rush
This is the Illinois that many people never see — the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, ...
APNewsBreak: Judge axes federal suit over lake
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Los Angeles against air quality regulators who are requiring the city to do more to control dust on ...
NM grapples with tough choices as drought persists
In southern New Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has gone dry — reduced to a sandy wash winding from this chile farming community to the nation's leading ...
Appeals court upholds EPA block on W.Va. mine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia's largest ...
Colorado River tops 2013 endangered waterways list
Drought and demand are pushing the Colorado River beyond its limits — with the needs of more than 40 million people in seven Western states projected ...
IAEA reviewing cleanup at damaged Japan nuke plant
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency Monday began reviewing the decommissioning process at Japan's crippled nuclear plant, where new problems are ...
Water, rats, outages: Japan nuke plant precarious
A rat causing a power outage by short-circuiting a temporary switchboard. Another blackout occurring as workers install anti-rat nets. Holes in the ...
NH jury: Exxon Mobil owes $236M over gas chemical
An order for Exxon Mobil to pay $236 million in damages for groundwater contamination is by far the largest verdict in state history but represents ...
Report predicts ever-bigger Lake Erie algae blooms
It was the largest algae bloom in Lake Erie's recorded history — a scummy, toxic blob that oozed across nearly one-fifth of the lake's surface during ...
Starving sea lion pups fill Calif. rescue centers
Hundreds of starving sea lion pups are washing up on beaches from San Diego to Santa Barbara, overwhelming rescue centers and leaving scientists ...
New requirements for ballast water dumped by ships
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has provided ...
Report: Big Okla. quake in 2011 likely man-made
An unusual and widely felt 5.6-magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 was probably caused when oil drilling waste was pushed deep underground, a team of ...
EPA: More than half of streams in 'poor' shape
More than half of the country's rivers and streams are in poor biological health, unable to support healthy populations of aquatic insects and other ...
Peru declares Amazon oil contamination emergency
Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of ...
Judge sides with Wyoming in fracking chemical suit
A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to obtain lists of the ingredients that go into ...
Deal requires ferry to stop ash dumping in 2 years
The nation's last operating coal-fired ferryboat would stop dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan within two years under a deal with federal regulators ...
Fla. Marine vet fights cancer, government
Marine veteran Tom Gervasi has spent the last 10 years fighting cancer and the U.S. government. The 76-year-old Sarasota man has a rare form of breast ...
Sierra Club blasts new plan to improve fracking
The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking.
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