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An outdoor studies professor at the University of Alaska Southeast was mauled by a bear Monday during a class on Mount Emmerich, near Haines, Alaska.

Movers are using heavy equipment to lift a Pacifica, Calif., house and move it away from a crumbling cliff.

Flood-control challenges in Houston have been an issue dating back to the city's infancy when the first flood was recorded more than a century ago.

Millions of consumers in the nation's most populous state are likely to see new chemical warning labels at checkout stands starting next month.

More than half of the United States' population -- or 166 million people -- live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution, the American Lung Association said in findings released today.

Automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. provided false test data for hundreds of thousands of vehicles sold in Japan, the company said.

U.S. EPA's chief technology officer is leaving the agency for the private sector.

Complaints from oil company BP PLC that the industry would flee Europe prompted regulators to back off regulatory proposals in 2013, according to new documents.

China's government will encourage ships registered in the nation to pass through the Arctic using the Northwest Passage, which has become passable with warming temperatures, according to state-run media.

Two state regulators and a Flint employee face criminal charges in the city's lead-laced water crisis.

A recent scientific assessment paints a grim future for the Pacific bluefin tuna, whose populations have dropped by more than 97 percent from average levels.

The eastern Sierra Nevada is overdue for a big earthquake, according to new research.

Scientists in Australia said today that a mere 7 percent of the Great Barrier Reef, which spans 2,300 kilometers (1,430 miles) along Australia's northeast coast, has been left untouched by widespread bleaching that will likely destroy half its coral.

A fire that is continuing to grow in Shenandoah National Park has so far left 3,000 acres burned.

An Oregon sheriff said armed protestors were harassing deputies for months before they occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January.

Former Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), now a prominent lobbyist, is weighing in on the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers this morning heard from an oil company and a foreign climate minister on the merits of market-based approaches to addressing global warming. It was the kickoff meeting of a new caucus focused on climate change solutions.

Months after the Defense Department's first bulk biofuels purchase, a House Armed Services subcommittee is questioning whether the deal was cost-competitive.

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Jim Inhofe told reporters today to expect a water resources authorization bill early next week.

With the Senate poised to take up its energy and water spending bill this afternoon, the White House is pushing for Congress to approve more funding for energy research.

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