Agency: NC Camp Lejeune water contaminated in 1953
Tens of thousands more Marines and their relatives could be eligible for government health care for their illnesses now that a federal agency ...
Camera on Maine island streams gray seal video
A camera that records seal-pupping activities on a remote Maine island began streaming live to the public Thursday in what's believed to be the first ...
Citgo to be dropped from NH suit on gas additive
A judge has granted a request to remove Citgo from a New Hampshire lawsuit accusing the oil company and another petroleum giant of failing to warn ...
EPA changed course after gas company protested
When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family's drinking water had begun bubbling like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: A ...
NH $700M case against 2 oil companies begins
Day one of what is expected to be a marathon pollution trial over the gasoline additive MTBE ended Monday with lawyers for the state of New Hampshire ...
More than 130 nations begin mercury treaty talks
Delegates from more than 130 nations began a final round of negotiations on Sunday that are expected to lead to the creation of the first legally ...
Locals say shifting sea ice frees trapped whales
About a dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice appeared to be free after the ice shifted, village officials in Canada's remote north said Thursday, ...
Thai government ordered to clean up polluted creek
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the government to clean up a lead-polluted creek and pay nearly $4 million in compensation to local villagers as part ...
UN finds rising mercury emissions, need for treaty
Mercury pollution in the top layer of the world's oceans has doubled in the past century, part of a man-made problem that will require international ...
Giant squid filmed in ocean depths for 1st time
After a hundred dives deep into the Pacific, scientists and broadcasters say they have captured video images of a giant squid in its natural habitat ...
Rare San Francisco river otter stumps researchers
A rapt crowd followed a trail of bubbles that zipped over the surface of a seaside pond in the ruins of a 19th century bath in San Francisco.
APNewsBreak: Feds say delay made oil spill worse
Delays in Exxon Mobil Corp.'s response to a major pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made an oil spill far worse than it otherwise ...
Few tests done at toxic sites after superstorm
For more than a month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that the recent superstorm didn't cause significant problems at any of the ...
Oil, gas drilling rile West's energy embrace
This used to be a land proud of its oil barons. Now the energy industry that has brought wealth and jobs across the interior West is prompting angry ...
NYC artists seek help to scrub away Sandy's stains
Superstorm Sandy was not kind to the arts community. It not only upended paintings, equipment, tools and paper, turning them into tangled and soggy ...
A look at California's very high 'king tides'
Seawater floods highways and low-lying communities near California beaches. The cause: so-called "king tides" pulling the Pacific Ocean farther ashore ...
GOP decries looming 'regulatory cliff' in new term
While the "fiscal cliff" of looming tax increases and spending cuts dominates political conversation in Washington, some Republicans and business ...
Colorado River seen as depleting regional resource
The federal government isn't going to tap the Missouri River to slake the thirst of a drought-parched Southwest, the government's top water official ...
Exxon: US energy revival has staying power
Exxon says the energy renaissance in the U.S. will continue and predicts that North America will become a net exporter of oil and natural gas by the ...
Crew tows whale carcass in Malibu out to sea
A tugboat towed the decomposing carcass of a whale from a Malibu beach out to sea, several days after it washed ashore and created a stench near the ...
Rotting whale carcass in Malibu towed out to sea
The decaying carcass of a whale that washed onto a California beach was towed out to sea Saturday, five days after it washed ashore and created a ...
Critic questions way coal firms build slurry ponds
With a driver and his bulldozer missing in a thick, dark lake of coal slurry, a mine safety expert and critic of the coal industry says regulators are ...
Drought revives old water war among river states
The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri ...
Group gathers mistletoe for holidays on river trip
There's an old southern tradition of shooting mistletoe out of treetops with a .22 rifle, or even a shotgun. Forrest Altman prefers a kinder, gentler ...
Pacific nations alarmed by tuna overfishing
Pacific island nations and environmentalists raised an alarm Sunday over destructive fishing methods and overfishing that they say are threatening ...
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