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A Georgia television anchor died Thursday after she was swept over a waterfall during a visit to North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest.

A new plan from federal wildlife and water officials could help the Cape Sable seaside sparrow nest and speed up Everglades restoration.

The House Natural Resources Committee tomorrow will hold a field hearing on improving federal land management around Las Vegas.

Senate Democrats have doubled down on their attempts to link right-leaning organizations in a "web of denial" on climate change.

Despite a sizable fundraising gap and criticism from his party's presidential nominee, Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk may be gaining ground in his race to hang onto his Senate seat, a new poll shows.

Two key environmental groups are pouring money into a close Wisconsin Senate race with the aim to unseat first-term Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in November.

When Alex McDonough, the energy policy adviser to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, walked into a staff meeting with a black eye and battered nose, his boss had one question.

PHILADELPHIA -- Democrats are struggling to present a united front and avoid any more controversy as they launch their national convention here today.

U.S. EPA today finalized two Clean Air Act findings on greenhouse gas emissions from aviation, officially confirming that airplane greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare.

PHILADELPHIA -- A group of delegates here for the Democratic National Convention is pushing for the creation of a Climate Caucus within the Democratic National Committee, according to delegates and environmental activists familiar with the discussions.

PHILADELPHIA -- When President Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention here on Wednesday night, he'll be just the fifth second-term president in 56 years to address a convention as he's preparing to leave office.

The thousands of Democratic National Committee emails that leaked last week offer a peek into party officials' energy and environmental strategies during presidential campaign season. Among the topics in the trove: strategies to hit Donald Trump for his plans to nix U.S. EPA; getting cash from Democratic donor Tom Steyer; attacking GOP judicial nominees on their environmental records; and questioning holding an event at a prominent Washington, D.C., law firm with a big lobbying presence.

Peru is stepping up efforts to drive out illegal mining in protected lands, but some say action is coming too late.

Residents in Rio de Janeiro were hoping the 2016 Olympics would spur long-needed efforts to clean up Guanabara Bay.

Ecuador last week paid $112 million to Chevron Corp. in an arbitration case stemming from the 1970s.

A U.S. EPA scientific advisory panel will meet this fall to examine any possible link between the weed killer glyphosate and cancer, a question that has led to conflicting claims among scientists.

PacifiCorp, parent company of the Utah-based Rocky Mountain Power, said it will appeal a June decision by U.S. EPA to mandate $600 million in upgrades to two power plants in the Beehive State.

The majority of the world's urban watersheds face degradation from contaminants like agricultural chemicals, which have increased the price of water treatment by 50 percent in some major cities, according to a recent study.

Fountain, Colo., is named for a creek that once gave life to the town, but it is now among a growing number of communities that have had their water supplies contaminated with perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs.

Environmental groups are urging the state of New York to push forward to approve a plan to build the second wind farm in U.S. waters.

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