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Police in Peru rescued 27 baby Galapagos tortoises from a group of traffickers trying to take them to Europe, authorities said yesterday.

The Iowa Senate yesterday passed a bill that would boost funding to clean the state's rivers and lakes. But the bill faces an uncertain future in the state House, with time running out in the legislative session.

Privatizing public lands is a non-starter in Oregon politics, according to a new poll.

Dow Chemical Co. wants the Trump administration to dump the findings from federal scientists that show types of widely used pesticides can be harmful to about 1,800 threatened or endangered species.

High levels of a banned pollutant have been found in water under Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Japan, about a year after the chemical was found in streams and underground water wells by the Kadena Air Base.

Smoke from prescribed grassland fires in eastern Kansas is causing health problems for downwind residents in Lincoln, Neb., the city's mayor complained in a letter this week.

Princess Cruises will pay a $40 million penalty for dumping oily water into the ocean and falsifying records to hide the crime.

A Michigan township has rejected a plan by Nestlé Waters North America to significantly increase its groundwater withdrawal.

Questionable decisions and missteps were made during and leading up to the Oroville Dam crisis earlier this year, according to emails and interviews acquired by the Associated Press.

As the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, N.M., begins accepting its first shipments of nuclear waste in three years, the underground repository's reopening may resurrect debates about the best way to store waste.

Farmers and landowners in Nebraska are preparing a last stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, as the TransCanada Corp. project faces a final permitting test.

A federal court this week threw out the Bureau of Land Management's approval of a controversial wind power project in southeast Oregon.

Atmospheric chemist Guus Velders, one of the first to draw attention to heat-trapping pollutants used in air conditioning and refrigeration, made Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people today.

A federal judge in Montana yesterday lifted a hold of the proposed irrigation dam and fish passage that federal officials call the best hope for the endangered pallid sturgeon.

A Chicago federal judge has halted a multimillion-dollar road project because construction would hurt habitat of the endangered rusty patched bumblebee.

A federal appellate court should summarily reject U.S. EPA's bid to indefinitely delay upcoming oral arguments in litigation over tightened air pollution standards, lawyers for environmental groups argued in a filing this morning.

Environmental and municipal drinking water groups are asking a federal judge to keep a regulation aimed at reducing toxic metals in wastewater in place while litigation is ongoing.

The last orca has been born in SeaWorld captivity at the company's San Antonio park.

An annual survey of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay found that there are more spawning-age female crabs than there have been in almost 30 years.

The Arctic is a "dead end" for plastic waste dumped in the Atlantic Ocean off Europe and the United States and carried north by ocean currents, scientists said yesterday.

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