Alaska senator pushes for wildlife refuge road
Thin barrier islands five miles off the tip of the Alaska Peninsula shelter Izembek Lagoon from the Bering Sea, but it's what's beneath the surface ...
Rat tales abound in NYC after Sandy
At the height of Superstorm Sandy, city residents watching seawater pour into the subway system couldn't help but wonder: What will become of all the ...
Land scarce Singapore looks underground for space
Already one of the most densely populated countries in the world, tiny land scarce Singapore is projecting its population to swell by a third over the ...
US gov't to air-drop toxic mice on Guam snakes
Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are scientists' prescription for a headache that has caused the ...
Report: Flaws in EPA drilling pollution data
Limited data and unreliable estimates on air pollution from oil and natural gas production is hindering the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts ...
Royal penguin stranded on New Zealand beach dies
A royal penguin that became stranded on a beach more than 1,000 miles from its sub-Antarctic home has died at a New Zealand zoo. The penguin was ...
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 ...
Alaska state senator proposes bounty on sea otters
An Alaska state senator is proposing a bounty on sea otters, the cute little marine mammals often seen by tourists swimming on their backs between ...
Drought forecast to linger, spread in Plains, West
Climate experts say the drought affecting more than half of the nation will persist in the Great Plains and West through the spring and spread over ...
Chinese dare officials to swim in polluted rivers
A Chinese businessman angry about a filthy river made an equally dirty dare: He'll give an environmental official about $32,000 just for swimming in ...
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 ...
BP civil settlement remains elusive as trial nears
The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf coast states affected by a massive oil spill nearly three years ago have indicated they would like to ...
Agency checks water after body found in hotel tank
British tourist Michael Baugh and his wife said water had only dribbled out of the taps at the downtown Cecil Hotel for days. On Tuesday, after ...
New digs: Federal research chimps savor retirement
For the first time in their lives, four aging chimpanzees once used in federal research can go outside whenever they like. They can lie on the grass, ...
Future science: Using 3D worlds to visualize data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science ...
Feds, BP agree oil captured not part of penalties
BP and the federal government have agreed that 34 million gallons of oil captured during the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico can't count ...
DiCaprio calls for ivory trade ban in Thailand
Leonardo DiCaprio wants Thailand to ban all ivory trade in the country as part of a global campaign to tackle illegal wildlife crimes. World Wildlife ...
TransCanada: Pipeline would not affect climate
In a shift in strategy, the company that wants to build an oil pipeline from western Canada to Texas said Tuesday that the project will have no ...
French family of 7 kidnapped in Cameroon
A French family of seven — including four children — was kidnapped on Tuesday in northern Cameroon, and officials suggested the involvement of one of ...
Hamas accuses Egypt of flooding Gaza tunnels
The Hamas rulers of Gaza and local smugglers on Tuesday accused Egypt of flooding cross-border tunnels with sewage water in order to halt a thriving ...
EU lawmakers seek to beef up cap-and-trade system
European lawmakers are proposing to tighten the bloc's cap-and-trade system to make carbon dioxide pollution more expensive. The European Parliament's ...
China rejects status as world's biggest trader
China has a new status its government doesn't want — world's biggest trader. Official Chinese and American trade data indicate China passed the United ...
Costa Rica toughens stance in US-backed drug fight
On a recent Friday morning at a gleaming new international airport in Costa Rica, hundreds of tourists from New York and Minnesota emerged blinking ...
Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards
Scientists point to both scant recent snowfall in parts of the country and this month's whopper of a Northeast blizzard as potential global warming ...
Kadji's 3-pointer rescues No. 3 Miami at Clemson
No. 3 Miami kept its perfect Atlantic Coast Conference season intact, no matter how bad things may have gone against Clemson. Kenny Kadji had 12 ...
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