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The British polar research vessel many referred to as "Boaty McBoatface" will actually be named RRS Sir David Attenborough.

A partnership between Luxembourg's government and two U.S. space research companies could result in the first commercial mission to extract resources from asteroids within the next five years.

Government officials in the Cayman Islands will release genetically modified mosquitos to fight the Zika virus.

State lawmakers in Hawaii approved legislation this week that bans the possession of any product made of elephant or rhinoceros horns with the intent to sell or trade the products.

South Carolina lawmakers are poised to approve legislation curtailing the public's right to sue to force enforcement of state pollution laws.

Wildlife officials in Montana have issued grizzly bear hunting draft regulations ahead of the bears' potential removal from the endangered species list.

Four people were removed from a Duke Energy Corp. annual shareholders meeting yesterday for interrupting CEO Lynn Good, and about a dozen others challenged her on environmental and energy issues during a question-and-answer time slot.

A freight train carrying coal overturned in Kanawha County, W.Va., yesterday evening, an incident that blocked a nearby road for about two hours.

A new Department of Energy report plots ways that leased areas of commercial buildings could be built and designed to save up to 40 percent more energy at a low cost.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last night released a final staff report that found storing nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain would have "small" effects on groundwater running through Nevada's aquifers, deserts and valleys.

Climate change is expected to change how national forests are used, with shorter ski seasons but potentially more mild weather for camping.

Doctors who treat children with health problems like asthma try to help but say the root cause is something out of their hands -- climate change.

The children of a woman who brought her family to Cliven Bundy's ranch in 2014 and to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year, where they formed a popular singing group, will be placed in the temporary custody of Kansas child welfare officials.

An environmental assessment by the Forest Service would exclude mineral development from about 100,000 acres of federal land.

Once a hidden hangout for locals, Guffey Gorge, a scenic swimming hole outside Colorado Springs, Colo., has been nicknamed Paradise Cove.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took his plea for a new approach to paying for wildfire fighting to the nation's fire departments last night, telling hundreds of firefighters that Congress needs to set up disaster funding for forest fires.

The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are failing to minimize the impacts of off-highway vehicles on public lands, leading to soil erosion, stream impairment, and conflicts with quiet trail users like hikers and campers, according to a report released yesterday by the Wilderness Society.

Republican lawmakers have fought to curtail subsidies for renewable energy, but it's their states that are benefiting most from the investment, new data show.

The National Biodiesel Board is on the hunt for a new leader.

With Congress far from fully funding Mission Innovation, the White House's plan to double clean energy investments over the next five years, Energy Department officials plan to turn to other sources, like nonprofits and the private sector.

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