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A team of Danish scientists will study pollution levels at an American Cold War base in Greenland built in 1960 and abandoned in 1966.

The village of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., will pursue a loan to cover costs associated with PFOA contamination, officials said this week.

A new initiative by NASA and the University of California, Berkeley, is crowdsourcing the hunt for Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet beyond Pluto that astronomers have been buzzing about for years.

A new Facebook-style social network is changing the way scientists do research.

Micah Ragland, a former senior U.S. EPA official, has landed at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

A robust snowpack in the Sierra Nevada could finally end California's five-year drought and keep skiers on the slopes through July.

Ammon Bundy testified yesterday in the second Oregon standoff trial, stating he felt compelled to protest federal land control after two Oregon ranchers were charged after setting fires on public land.

A federal judge this week ordered a Nevada rancher's estate to pay more than half a million dollars for illegally grazing cattle on federal lands, capping off a decadelong legal battle.

The destructive boll weevil has required a U.S.-Mexico alliance that might go beyond the border wall debate.

Federal officials have approved three types of genetically engineered potatoes meant to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine.

A new Everglades Foundation report shows that building a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee could generate 39,000 jobs and a $20 billion bump in real estate values.

When officials shut down the Oroville Dam's spillway flow, California state biologists expected to find at least some water still in the Feather River.

Federal agencies are moving forward with plans to advance one of Alaska's "Roads to Resources," the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project, despite state funding for the project appearing doubtful.

The easing of California's historic drought is allowing some water users to return to their full usage, federal water managers announced yesterday.

Former NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said he is "seriously" considering a Democratic run for governor of Maryland against incumbent Larry Hogan, a Republican, in 2018.

Edward E. David Jr., a scientist who served in the Nixon administration, died in New Jersey on Feb. 13 at the age of 92.

Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer said he is gearing up to galvanize the American people against Republican-led efforts to change the regulatory structure.

The Trump administration's plans to review and possibly rescind the Clean Water Rule could threaten drinking water for as many as 117 million Americans, the nonprofit Environmental Working Group said in an analysis released today.

President Trump's jettisoning of the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule is just the start of an extended rollback of environmental regulations affecting farmers, U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told the American Farm Bureau Federation yesterday.

Some of the contracting irregularities that led to a fine for a defense contractor stemmed from demands made by Air Force secretary nominee Heather Wilson, according to new documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

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