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APNewsBreak: Feds: Warming imperils wolverines
The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate ...
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 ...
Great white shark moves back to northeast
It seems Mary Lee's winter vacation in the sunny South is over. The 3,500-pound great white shark headed north after spending weeks off the Southeast ...
EU proposal to protect bees stirs hornets' nest
An attempt to protect Europe's bee population has kicked up a hornets' nest. On Thursday, the EU's commissioner for health and consumer policy, Tonio ...
57 rhinos killed in South Africa so far this year
Officials in South Africa say that 57 rhinos have been killed by poachers across the country so far this year. The Department of Environmental Affairs ...
Frank Ocean, Maroon 5, Keys to perform at Grammys
All five nominees for album of the year at this year's Grammys will perform at the awards show next month. The Recording Academy announced Thursday ...
New England fishermen say new rules mean ruin
Minutes after New England fishery managers took a vote that cast doubt on the historic industry's future, the prospects most clear to Gloucester ...
China's love affair with cars chokes air in cities
Endless lines of slow-moving cars emerge like apparitions and then disappear again into the gloom of the thick smog that has shrouded Beijing this ...
China says 14 guilty of pollution protest violence
Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year in which the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in ...
Cyprus jobless turn to illegal songbird trapping
It's just before first light and the bird-catcher strings nets among the orange, pomegranate, fig and carob trees in his orchard. The sound of ...
Guard lets vessels pass leaking Miss. River barge
The Coast Guard is letting vessels pass through a closed section of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg as it evaluates how traffic would affect ...
More Borneo elephants found dead, toll rises to 13
Malaysian authorities found remains of another three endangered Borneo pygmy elephants, deepening a mystery surrounding at least 13 such deaths this ...
Schwarzenegger lauds Austria's environment record
Arnold Schwarzenegger is praising Austria — and not because it's the country of his birth. Arriving in Vienna on Wednesday ahead of the launch of his ...
APNewsBreak: EPA moves to ban some rodent poisons
The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban the sale of a dozen rat and mouse poisons sold under the popular D-Con brand in an effort to ...
Algeria crisis strangling Sahara tourism
The awe-inspiring dunes and wild mountains of Algeria's Sahara have lured adventure travelers for decades, but their latest incarnation — as a ...
Dutch court rejects most of Shell spill case
A Dutch court has ruled that a subsidiary of international oil giant Royal Dutch Shell should be held responsible for a pipeline leak poisoning ...
Next in BP spill saga: civil trial worth billions
Now that a $4 billion plea deal has resolved BP's criminal liability for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill nearly three years ago, the company will ...
Santa Maria mourns its dead, calls for justice
The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this ...
Indiana couple vows to fight fawn rescue charges
Jeff Counceller says a dying fawn he found on someone's porch three years ago surely wouldn't have lived had he and his wife not nursed it back to ...
Judge OKs $4B BP oil spill criminal settlement
BP PLC closed the book on the Justice Department's criminal probe of its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf oil spill Tuesday, when a ...
The Dutch monarchy - some facts and quirks
The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix says she will abdicate her throne in April to make way for her eldest son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander. Here are some ...
Egypt cruise ship runs aground, all aboard safe
Egyptian police officials say a cruise ship has run aground on the Nile River near the southern city of Aswan, but all 120 people aboard survived.
10 dead Borneo pygmy elephants feared poisoned
Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in a Malaysian forest under mysterious circumstances, and wildlife officials said Tuesday ...
Smog thick enough to cancel flights hits Beijing
Thick, off-the-scale smog shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks Tuesday, forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor ...