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PHILADELPHIA -- The stifling urban heat in the City of Brotherly Love this week seems a long way from the rugged farmland and ranches of central Nebraska, where Jane Kleeb lives.

More than 60 environmental groups are urging U.S. EPA to withdraw proposed radioactivity guidelines for drinking water after a nuclear disaster.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has adopted a new method to guide how it evaluates plants and animals for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Two top Bureau of Indian Affairs supervisors in Montana "falsified" leasing documents in an apparent effort to coerce an oil and natural gas exploration company to pay the bureau for approval of a lease-extension request the company had already withdrawn.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. -- Meadows that should be filled with native bunchgrasses and flowers here have turned brown with cheatgrass, thanks to rising temperatures and earlier springs. National Park Service officials say the agency will be defined by how it addresses and adapts to the warming climate.

Japan is asking makers of the popular "Pokemon Go" phone game to remove the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone from the app's map.

Ukraine is seeking investors for a $1.1 billion solar project on the radioactive wasteland of the Chernobyl meltdown site.

Farmers in a Mexican village are using fireflies to generate tourism revenue and to save their forest.

A Duluth, Minn., man got a surprise Monday when he returned to his home to find a black bear lounging in a kiddie pool on his deck.

Coast Guard officials rescued 46 crew members who abandoned their sinking ship in Alaska's Aleutian Island chain yesterday.

The former superintendent of a Wisconsin state park criticized an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a proposed golf course next to the site.

A new study says bee populations are dwindling in part due to a common insecticide that kills some sperm of male drones.

The Obama administration and representatives of California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) at a hearing yesterday made their pitch for a plan to build two massive water tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

A bisected Alpha Natural Resources Inc. emerged from bankruptcy today nearly a year after it filed to restructure its $4 billion debts.

San Diego has canceled five projects by contractor SunEdison Inc., a setback for the city trying to make a mark in solar power.

A Georgia board voted against accepting spent fuel from German nuclear reactors that are now out of commission.

The Army Corps of Engineers laid the groundwork yesterday for a $3.8 billion pipeline from the Bakken Shale play that has drawn a mixture of enthusiastic support and furious opposition from landowners and businesses along its path.

Sea-level rise poses a significant risk to military bases on the East and Gulf coasts and increases the prospect that the installations could lose valuable test and training grounds due to climate change, according to a new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

A Hoosick Falls, N.Y., resident has filed the first personal injury complaint related to drinking water contamination in the Northeastern village.

A man who disappeared in the New Mexico wilderness while searching for a hidden treasure was confirmed dead yesterday after his remains were discovered west of Santa Fe.

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