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An American bald eagle who was found injured near Lake Odessa, Mich., a month ago was returned to the wild last week.

Thieves in Alaska are bagging up road-killed moose whose carcasses are normally delivered to butchers.

After the Australian chapter of anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it would continue hounding Japanese whaling vessels despite a court order, the U.S. chapter said it would no longer fund the Southern Ocean campaign.

Firefighters across the West are continuing to battle 35 major uncontained blazes as 112 new ones have sprung up.

Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D) is ramping up efforts to persuade colleagues to protect an 84,000-acre expanse of sensitive lands in his home state that proponents say includes the Southwest's most important cultural sites.

DENVER — Both Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D) and GOP challenger Darryl Glenn looked to sway would-be voters yesterday at the Rocky Mountain Energy Summit here, with each vowing to support the oil and gas industry on Capitol Hill and curtail regulatory overreach.

Used electric vehicle batteries could boost the broader stationary energy storage market within a decade, potentially helping it grow by almost 10 times, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a new report.

Environmental groups launched a broad assault today on federal oil and gas leasing, accusing the Obama administration of ignoring the climate impacts from leasing on hundreds of thousands of acres since early 2015.

A Supreme Court ruling in a 2012 fight over a flooded Arkansas wildlife refuge could boost the chances of Baton Rouge-area officials hoping for federal compensation for last week's catastrophic deluge in parishes and towns near Louisiana's capital.

One hundred years ago today, President Wilson signed the law creating the National Park Service. The drive to protect the parks sprang from conservationists’ failure to prevent the building of a dam that destroyed Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley. But it took six years of legislative wrangling to get it done.

The Marine Mammal Center, a California nonprofit, has rescued four emaciated Hawaiian monk seals from small atolls and taken them to a hospital on Hawaii's Big Island.

Since escaping from pet stores starting 40 or 50 years ago, Italian wall lizards that established populations in New York are now heading to Connecticut.

The most recent wildfire in California has prompted hundreds of people to flee their homes near the Oregon border, and firefighters say the blaze will continue to grow.

Half of the homes flooded in East Baton Rouge Parish were not in areas that the federal government has deemed high-risk.

A tropical wave in the Caribbean that could become a tropical storm or hurricane might make it harder for Florida officials to battle the Zika virus.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation yesterday released data showing unsafe levels of fecal bacteria in streams, rivers and swimming holes across the Baltimore region.

U.S. EPA employees' practice of working from home is coming under the scrutiny of the agency's internal watchdog.

Tesla Motors Inc. is one step closer to completing its acquisition of SolarCity Corp.

Volkswagen told a federal judge yesterday that it had reached a compensation agreement with its 650 dealers in the United States, and the German company will pay as much as $1.2 billion for the diesel fuel scandal, according to a person briefed on the issue.

Rice, cotton and peanut production consume the most energy among crops grown in the United States, thanks largely to the use of farm chemicals, a report from the Department of Agriculture shows.

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