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Roads have divided the world's wilderness into 600,000 pieces, according to a new study.

Preventing harmful algal blooms and mitigating the impacts of climate change in the Everglades will require more water storage there, according to a review of restoration efforts from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released yesterday.

National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis yesterday toured a series of Reconstruction-era sites in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, a sign President Obama may designate them as a national monument.

The Interior Department yesterday finalized a controversial management plan for the Glen Canyon Dam that calls for continued experimental flooding to restore wildlife habitat and other features downstream on the Colorado River and in the Grand Canyon.

The Obama administration will restore a controversial exception for coal mining in a roadless area of Colorado despite environmentalists' contention it undermines the president's climate legacy.

Donald Trump's impact on the environment might not be as disastrous as some people fear, said a leading British climate economist.

Environmentalists are planning Capitol Hill sit-ins and other protests to support Senate Democrats who hope to turn confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks into a referendum on climate change.

Gina McCarthy swears more than she likes.

President Obama's only mine safety chief reflected this week on more than seven years regulating the nation's coal and hardrock mineral extractors, including an aggressive rulemaking period and inspection crackdown.

When Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) officially announced this week that she will not serve on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the next session of Congress, few people who watch the panel closely were surprised.

President-elect Donald Trump has one outstanding Cabinet nomination that will have a significant impact on environmental issues.

Officials announced that tap water is safe to drink in Corpus Christi, Texas, after a four-day ban following a chemical spill.

Rural water systems could have exposed over 6,000 Iowans to lead over the past six months.

A wood-fueled power plant in Georgia will have to do a better job of verifying its fuel sources and tracking hazardous emissions under a U.S. EPA response to a challenge to the plant's operating permit.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has delivered 100 specially designed Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans to self-driving-car company Waymo for testing.

The long-delayed waste treatment plant in Hanford, Wash., will cost $16.8 billion, according to a new estimate from the Department of Energy.

As part of a high-stakes energy conservation experiment, 40 LED lights were tested near Washington state's Olympia Regional Airport on hundreds of marijuana plants.

A massive 2013 oil spill in North Dakota still is not fully cleaned up.

Engineers in New York's Adirondack Mountains are proposing a novel approach to resuscitating an abandoned mine: converting the old mine shafts into a hydropower station.

2011. That's when the global solar photovoltaic industry likely became a net winner for the planet, at least in greenhouse gas emission reductions and overall energy use, according to a study.

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