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Two Australian government agencies say 22 percent of Great Barrier Reef corals are now dead.

For the first time, scientists have found concrete evidence that the tiny bits of plastic polluting the world's oceans have a devastating physiological and behavior effect on exposed fish.

It was not the police who shot and killed the 400-pound gorilla that grabbed a 3-year-old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo last weekend; it was a specially trained zoo staffer.

Over a dozen of the most environmentally destructive plants in the country have been discovered for sale on eBay.

Glacier National Park has hired a border collie for the summer to herd the goats and sheep that find their way into its parking lots.

An elk charged a woman in Yellowstone National Park last week after she approached the animal to take a photograph and kept moving closer to get a better picture.

Federal judges today shot down animal rights advocates' challenges to government policies for hunting endangered antelopes on U.S. ranches.

American Farmland Trust has tapped a leading conservationist and former state lawmaker from Maine as its next president.

Groups funded by oil companies have spent $2.7 million working to elect and defeat candidates in California's Legislature, efforts environmental groups said appear tied to concerns over Golden State climate measures.

U.S. EPA has rebuffed a request for the confidential financial disclosure reports of an air quality advisory panel, saying they are exempt from release under the Freedom of Information Act on personal privacy grounds.

A House committee is warning it will subpoena records next week related to how climate change concerns affected the State Department's decision to block the Keystone XL pipeline, if the administration does not turn them over first.

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) wants to give Republicans on Capitol Hill broader leverage for stopping Obama administration regulations by expanding the Congressional Review Act to agency guidance documents.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) wants more information on recent Interior Office of Inspector General investigations into "misconduct and ethics violations" by employees at the National Park Service, including NPS Director Jon Jarvis.

Harassment of observers on fishing vessels has increased in recent years, with 84 complaints filed in 2015, according to documents from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Federal judges today told states and others worried about nuclear waste storage to direct their concerns to Congress -- not the courts.

Pipeline developers are struggling with longer approval times as environmentalists throw up more regulatory and legal roadblocks as part of a nationwide movement to frustrate and ultimately halt fossil fuels projects, said a top industry executive.

Six minutes past midnight on Feb. 10 -- five hours after the Supreme Court stayed President Obama's signature climate change rule -- a U.S. EPA assistant administrator expressed shock in an email to her colleagues in the Office of Air and Radiation. "Can't believe this," Lori Stewart wrote to acting air chief Janet McCabe and Joe Goffman, the air office's associate assistant administrator and senior counsel. Emails between top EPA officials after the high court's surprise decision to stay the Clean Power Plan, obtained by E&E through a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal both disappointment and a dogged determination to move forward on the rule after the Supreme Court's unprecedented decision to stay the regulation.

Following fires last year that burned more than 2 million acres of terrain in Zimbabwe, authorities are asking for harsher punishments to deter future fires.

All eyes are on Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games this August, but the city still has a huge sewage treatment problem.

Rules proposed by the California Department of Parks and Recreation would bar visitors from sensitive areas of popular state parks in the California desert.

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