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TransCanada Corp. has resumed sending oil through the Keystone pipeline.

Zimbabwe veterinary officials were forced to kill a rhino days after it was shot by poachers, the wildlife authority said today.

A biologist at the National Zoo in Washington has taught a raven named Iris to paint.

The number of wild tigers has increased for the first time in a century, conservationists say.

Sea-level rise predictions that range from several inches to several feet by 2100 could threaten historical structures and coastal heritage sites across the globe.

The Forest Service is proposing to prohibit oil and gas leasing on almost 40,000 acres in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.

A mass bleaching of coral reefs is only the third on record and could be the most deadly ever.

More than 120 faith groups today urged Congress to support the Obama administration's full $750 million request for a U.N. climate fund for developing countries.

A liberal think tank today singled out 20 Republican members of Congress who it claims are attacking public lands to score partisan points.

Revis James has joined the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey's campaign launched a television ad today that touts the Republican lawmaker's work to keep a trio of Philadelphia-area oil refineries operating.

An environmental group today filed complaints with a pair of federal agencies alleging that the Bureau of Land Management fails to take into account climate change in its oversight of public grazing.

The Los Angeles-area natural gas storage site where methane leaked will not reopen without a full safety check, even with the risk of power blackouts this summer, energy officials said Friday.

Cliven Bundy's wife and an attorney for their son Ammon both shot back at Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) after the senator criticized the family's armed resistance of federal land control and proposed that President Obama designate their ancestral ranching lands as a national monument.

A recent Supreme Court ruling against U.S. EPA could boost a coal company's legal crusade against the agency's retroactive veto of a water permit for a mining project.

U.S. EPA knows which chemical facilities aren't following federal safety protocols, but it can't tell the public where they are thanks to post-Sept. 11 national security rules administered by the Department of Homeland Security.

Eighty percent of China's water from underground wells is unsafe for drinking or bathing because of contamination, according to new statistics.

Colorado state legislation aimed at aiding local governments that deal with inactive mines that pollute waterways moved forward yesterday, progress that could assist cleanup at sites that don't qualify for federal Superfund designation.

A California Coastal Commission member has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for voting on a SeaWorld permit during a time when his wife owned stock in the company, according to records.

Conservationist Cindy Charles can recall pristine stretches of California's San Joaquin River, with oak trees teeming with bird life and abundant trout and steelhead in the waterway.

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