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After a poor season last year, New Zealand is seeing a very high local and international demand for its avocados.

Zambian authorities said yesterday they would suspend efforts to control the country's hippopotamus population after concerns were raised by animal rights activists.

A 2-year-old boy who was dragged into a lake by an alligator at a Disney resort in Florida has yet to be found, according to police.

Not even white-collar workers can escape the effects of air pollution.

Over the next three years, Georgia Power will close dozens of coal ash ponds, an act that will cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion.

The final version of a U.S. EPA proposal to cut landfill methane emissions is now at the White House Office of Management and Budget for review.

As the troubled Gold King mine in Colorado begins testing ahead of a Superfund cleanup, U.S. EPA's coordinator for its work there is retiring.

The Alberta Energy Regulator has issued an environmental protection order to ConocoPhillips Co. after one of the company's pipelines last week leaked nearly 2,400 barrels of condensate, an ultra-light form of oil, into an endangered caribou and grizzly bear range.

The average cost of solar- and wind-generated power could fall by up to 59 percent in the next decade if lawmakers enact the right policies, the International Renewable Energy Agency, or IRENA, said today in a report.

Southern Co. CEO and Chairman Thomas Fanning was elected chairman of the board of the Edison Electric Institute yesterday.

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland offered some advice to graduating fifth-graders today.

The wildfire that forced 90,000 residents in northern Alberta to evacuate was likely human-caused, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Wayne Grooms, a South Carolina conservationist, died Sunday after being bitten in the leg by a snake at South Carolina's Santee National Wildlife Refuge.

The body of a North Carolina man was found at the base of a cliff in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in southwestern Colorado.

Park visitors last week discovered a man dead along a 30-mile dirt road in Death Valley National Park.

Twin Metals Minnesota LLC says the Forest Service is exhibiting "a disturbing predisposition or bias" against the company for wanting to build an underground mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the state's northeastern corner.

Robert "Bob" Paine, the ecologist who introduced the idea of "keystone species," has died at 83.

Sewage treatment plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have met cleanup goals 10 years ahead of schedule, water and environmental officials said yesterday.

The Democrats' former Senate leader is now lobbying for a new coalition of fuel trade groups.

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman (R) launched a new radio ad today highlighting his recent endorsement by the United Mine Workers of America's political action committee.

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