BP to call 1st witness at trial over Gulf spill
BP is scheduled to call its first witness at a trial designed to determine causes and assign blame for its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of ...
Antarctic team digs deep to predict climate future
Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic ...
Interior chief sees many wind farms in US future
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar voiced optimism Friday that the nation's first offshore wind farm will soon break ground after more than a decade of ...
CA hikers' woes showed danger of urban wilderness
In Southern California, where urban sprawl meets pristine wilderness, one can stand on a backwoods mountain trail and be so close to the city as to ...
Federal lawsuit filed over Arkansas oil spill
Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured last week and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal ...
Tyson agrees to $4M penalty to resolve EPA case
Tyson Foods Inc. will pay roughly $4 million in civil penalties to settle allegations related to eight accidental anhydrous ammonia releases that ...
Arkansas AG sets deadline for Exxon documents
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has set an April 10 deadline for ExxonMobil to produce documents connected to the company's oil spill in ...
Feds send corrective order to Exxon after oil leak
Federal pipeline safety officials on Tuesday issued a corrective action order to ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. after one of its pipelines ruptured last week ...
Nuclear board warns of Hanford tank explosion risk
Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a ...
Oily ducks found following Arkansas oil spill
The environmental impacts of an oil spill in central Arkansas began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live ...
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 ...
Malibu homeowners struggle with beach-saving plan
Malibu's celebrity haven of Broad Beach is struggling to survive as nature chews away at the shoreline and a $20 million effort to replace sand ...
Caribbean nations search for oil amid spill fears
The turquoise waters that have long brought treasure seekers to the Caribbean now are drawing a new kind of explorer as countries across the region ...
South Africa: 5 killed in helicopter crash
Five South African air force members died in the weekend crash of a helicopter that was patrolling in an anti-rhino poaching operation, the South ...
Airports suing FAA over planned tower shutdowns
Airport operators are mounting a legal challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to cut funding for 149 air traffic control towers, ...
Cleaner gas rule would mean higher price at pump
The Obama administration's newest anti-pollution plan would ping American drivers where they wince the most: at the gas pump. That makes arguments ...
Q&A: Europe's freezing Easter and global warming
Is it Easter or Christmas? Many Europeans would be forgiven for being confused by winter's icy grip on lands that should be thawing in springtime ...
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 ...
Americans oppose paying for storm-ravaged beaches
More than 4 out of 5 Americans want to prepare now for rising seas and stronger storms from climate change, a new national survey says. But most are ...
Sumatran rhino footprints believed found on Borneo
Several footprints believed to be from critically endangered Sumatran rhino have been found on Indonesia's Borneo island, raising hopes for the ...
Western environmentalists oppose wolf delisting
Western environmental groups say they're alarmed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a plan to end federal protections for gray ...
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 ...
Chimps, gorillas, other apes being lost to trade
The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife — clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction — is ...
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 ...
APNewsBreak: $1.7M penalty proposed in Exxon spill
Federal regulators proposed $1.7 million in civil penalties against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday for safety violations linked to a pipeline rupture ...
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