Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.
Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail
Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an ...
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 ...
AP Interview: UN puts spotlight on 'stunted' kids
The United Nations Children's Fund says more than a quarter of children under the age of 5 worldwide are permanently "stunted" from malnutrition, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wisconsin Assembly passes sweeping mining bill
Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly approved a polarizing mining bill Thursday and sent the measure to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature, ...
Researchers: Giant goldfish threatens Lake Tahoe
Giant goldfish could be threatening the ecology of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. Biologists with the University of Nevada, Reno say ...
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 ...
Study: Asian carp DNA may not signal live fish
Live Asian carp don't necessarily have to be present for their DNA to turn up in the environment, according to a government study released Wednesday ...
Wisconsin tribe threatens Walker jobs project
For generations the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has quietly carved out a hardscrabble existence in the evergreen forests and sloughs ...
Zimbabwe faces crayfish crisis in water ecosystem
Scientists in Zimbabwe say a fresh water crayfish brought from Australia is breeding out of control in the northern Lake Kariba, devouring the food ...
2 Great Lakes hit lowest water level on record
Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday, capping more than a decade of ...
NY inmates help build ice palace in Adirondacks
It's a far cry from breaking rocks in the hot sun on a chain gang. In New York's Adirondack Mountains, inmates break ice on a frozen lake to make a ...
Spotty Midwestern snow a mixed bag for businesses
Just a week ago, things looked dire for Sarah and Tim Long, owners of Timbers Resort in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Snow is their winter lifeblood, ...
Ariz teens rescued from tree after lake ice cracks
A firefighter in a waterproof suit crossed a partially frozen Arizona lake to help rescue two teenagers who spent at least two frigid hours hanging ...
Experts call off search for life in Antarctic lake
British scientists have called off the hunt for exotic life in an ice-bound Antarctic lake after their mission was hit by a technical hitch.
From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina
The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt ...
Residents battle high water in South Dakota town
Standing along a South Dakota waterfront shored up with boulders, Kevin Jens peered at the placid lake and reminisced about a road that led to a ...
As Great Lakes plummet, towns try to save harbors
For more than a century, easy access to Lake Michigan has made Onekama a popular place for summer visitors and a refuge for boaters fleeing dangerous ...
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