
Canada PM on pipeline plan: Oil to come anyway
A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil ...
UK officials: BP not seeking gov't help with spill
British government officials said Thursday that BP has not sought Prime Minister David Cameron's help in reducing compensation claims for its role in ...

Residents shout 'Protest!' over refinery in China
More than 2,000 people in southern China unfurled banners and shouted "Protest! Protest!" on Thursday to oppose plans for a petroleum refinery, in a ...
Woman: China police ask to ax White House petition
Upset about plans for a petrochemical plant near her hometown in China, a woman turned to a new method that Chinese are using to air their complaints: ...
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 ...

Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind

UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world
The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now. Edible insects are being promoted ...
Elephant protectors in Kenya arrested with ivory
Authorities say that two employees of an elephant conservation group in one of Kenya's most popular wildlife parks have been charged with ivory ...

Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and ...

Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend
The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone.

NASA: Spacewalk planned to fix space station leak
Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system of the International Space Station.

London Zoo seeks female mate for near-extinct fish
The London Zoo is urgently seeking a female mate for the last-known males of a critically endangered fish species. Zoo officials say the Mangarahara ...

China's struggling automakers jump on SUV boom
BYD is known for electric cars but this year's flagship model is the S7, a gasoline-powered SUV. It comes with an interior air purifier, radar to help ...

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 ...
WWF: Seleka rebels from CAR invade elephant park
The WWF said in a statement that suspected poachers belonging to the Seleka rebel group have entered one of Africa's most unique elephant habitats in ...
At California port, some ships plug in to power up
In less than a year, many of the diesel-powered cargo ships docking at California ports won't just tie up — they'll also plug in. The Port of Long ...

Chinese actress feeds Kenya's orphan elephants
Chinese actress Li Bingbing is in Kenya to bring attention to the growing problem of elephants slaughtered for the international ivory trade.

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, ...

What's happening at Buffett's annual meeting
Dubbed "Woodstock for Capitalists," Saturday's annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders revolves around Warren Buffett, the company's ...

Beach bonfire spat gets hot in Southern California
Anna Abderhalden and her siblings woke before dawn to stake a claim to a coveted beachfront spot where bonfires blaze each night as a rite of summer ...

Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list
A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to remove northern Pacific humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the ...

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 ...

Feds: Many causes for dramatic bee disappearance
A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006. The intertwined ...

Expert: Rhino population wiped out in Mozambique
Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, the beasts again are ...