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'Burning river' loses sting in Cleveland 50 years after fire

Fifty years after the Cuyahoga River's most infamous fire helped spawn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, artists and ...

Correction: Steel Plant-Pollution story

In a story June 17 about a fire at U.S. Steel's Pennsylvania coke plant, The Associated Press reported erroneously the impact ...

Oregon Democrats rally behind cap-and-trade emissions plan

Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based ...

Lithuanian circus owner releases bear he took 'hostage'

Lithuanian police say a private circus owner has released a bear from a cage after a standoff with police trying to take the ...

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Scientists take a peek behind those sad puppy dog eyes

What's behind those hard-to-resist puppy dog eyes? New research suggests that over thousands of years of dog domestication, ...

Portugal's prime minister: wildfires require long-term fight

Portugal's prime minister is warning against complacency in the fight against wildfires after huge blazes in 2017 that killed ...

Former Slovak President Kiska creates new political party

Former Slovak President Andrej Kiska is kicking off a new centrist political party. Kiska says his "For People" party's ...

2 killed in heavy storms in Switzerland, France

Authorities say a tourist has drowned in Switzerland's Lake Geneva after her boat capsized in a driving storm, and another ...

Extinction Rebellion postpones Heathrow drone protest plan

The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion has postponed a plan to shut down London's Heathrow Airport with drones ...

Strong quake hits island chain off New Zealand; no tsunami

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck an arc of islands off New Zealand on Sunday, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said ...

New Alaska park bridge aimed at limiting bear encounters

The National Park Service has completed a project to relieve an Alaska traffic jam. A new elevated bridge and boardwalk ...

Southern EU leaders seek united policy front at meeting

The leaders of southern European nations gathered in Malta on Friday to build a united front on key economic and political ...

Court rules against Trump on immigrant teen abortion policy

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Friday against a Trump administration policy it described as a "blanket ban" ...

Emails: Trump official pressed NASA on climate science

Once a skeptic about climate change, Jim Bridenstine came around to the prevailing view of scientists before he took over as ...

Moulton signs fellow 2020 hopeful Gillibrand's cyber pledge

Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand (KEER'-sten JIHL'-uh-brand) says fellow challenger Seth Moulton has ...

Correction: Bitcoin-Carbon Footprint story

In a story June 13 about the carbon footprint of bitcoin, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the electricity ...

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Meet a cuddly baby dugong named Marium

A baby dugong that has developed an attachment to humans after getting lost in the ocean off southern Thailand is being ...

Vietnam seizes 7.5 tons of elephant ivory, pangolin scales

Authorities have seized 7.5 tons of elephant ivory and pangolin scales in one of Vietnam's biggest wildlife trafficking cases

Feds: African ring smuggled rhinoceros horns, ivory into US

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged four African men with trafficking millions of dollars' worth of rhinoceros horns ...

Utility will remove coal ash from pits near Tennessee river

The nation's largest public utility on Thursday agreed to dig up and remove about 12 million cubic yards (9.2 million cubic ...

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