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September 15, 2016

Obama: Oceans key to protecting planet from climate change

Creating the Atlantic Ocean's first marine national monument is a needed response to dangerous climate change, oceanic dead ...

September 15, 2016

Obama will create first marine national monument in Atlantic

President Barack Obama will establish on Thursday the first national marine monument in the Atlantic, a move that's designed ...

September 14, 2016

Plan divvies up desert for conservation, energy projects

Swaths of public land in the California desert will be opened to solar and wind farms under a federal plan released Wednesday ...

September 14, 2016

Survival of the smallest? Bigger sea species more threatened

In the Earth's oceans these days, the bigger a species is, the more prone it is to die off. That's unheard of in the long ...

September 14, 2016

Official didn't publicly report Flint-area disease outbreak

Michigan's former state epidemiologist acknowledged in a plea deal Wednesday that she was aware of dozens of cases of ...

September 14, 2016

It's a boy! Orangutan born at National Zoo, 1st in 25 years

National Zoo officials are celebrating the birth of a Bornean orangutan, the first at the zoo in 25 years. Officials said in ...

September 14, 2016

The Latest: Trump 'didn't like' lack of diversity at RNC

The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT): 10:35 p.m. Donald Trump says he was bothered by the lack of racial ...

September 14, 2016

Tropical Storm Julia meanders near South Carolina, Georgia

Slow-moving Tropical Storm Julia is expected to meander along the Atlantic coast where Georgia and South Carolina meet, ...

September 14, 2016

South African park kills 350 hippos, buffalos amid drought

Rangers in South Africa's biggest wildlife park are killing about 350 hippos and buffalos in an attempt to relieve the impact ...

September 14, 2016

How the AP-NORC poll was conducted

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on climate change was conducted by NORC Aug. 11-14. It is ...

September 14, 2016

Poll: Americans favor slightly higher bills to fight warming

Most Americans are willing to pay a little more each month to fight global warming — but only a tiny bit, according to a new ...

September 14, 2016

Oregon sheriff says occupiers warned of armed invasion

The occupiers who took over a national wildlife refuge warned an Oregon sheriff that his county would be "invaded" by armed ...

September 13, 2016

Tropical Storm Julia forms along coast of Florida

Tropical Storm Julia has formed along the northeastern coast of Florida. The National Hurricane Center says the slow-moving ...

September 13, 2016

The Latest: Ryan Bundy says occupiers came to help

The Latest on the trial of seven people involved in a weekslong armed standoff at a national wildlife refuge in Oregon (all ...

September 13, 2016

Feds: Plan addresses impact of ocean noise on marine mammals

The federal government says a new strategy to address the issue of noise in the ocean will better protect the safety of ...

September 13, 2016

Prosecutor reaches $4M settlement with utility for gas leak

A utility that owns a well that leaked massive amounts of natural gas and drove thousands of families from their Los Angeles ...

September 13, 2016

Protections rejected for American pika, other species

Federal officials on Tuesday rejected greater protections for four species including the rabbit-like American pika, which ...

September 13, 2016

Prosecutor: Occupiers being tried for actions, not beliefs

The armed occupiers who seized a remote bird sanctuary in Oregon early this year are being tried because their actions ...

September 13, 2016

206 of Cambodia's rare royal turtles released at new center

More than 200 of Cambodia's nearly extinct royal turtles were released Tuesday in muddy waters at a new breeding and ...