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Young lobster populations are declining in the Gulf of Maine despite years of record-breaking harvests, according to a University of Maine marine scientist.

The seas are "under threat as never before," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told a conference on oceans yesterday.

Stacey Abrams, the head of the Georgia House Democrats, launched her campaign for governor last weekend.

A future president could get the U.S. back into the Paris climate agreement in just 30 days, according to legal experts.

Democratic attorneys general promised today to keep fighting climate change in the wake of President Trump's announced exit from the Paris Agreement.

Bloomberg Philanthropies will work with a coalition of governors, mayors and business leaders who have pledged "we are still in" the Paris Agreement to quantify greenhouse gas reductions.

Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R) yesterday urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to grant the Pine Tree State managerial control over the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument but stopped short of seeking the repeal of the 88,000-acre site.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will head to Capitol Hill next week.

Florida has urged the Supreme Court to reject a ruling in favor of Georgia in a fierce legal battle over the Peach State's excessive water use.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is set to issue preliminary recommendations for the future of Bears Ears National Monument to the White House this week — but conservationists and Democrats are threatening legal action unless any changes are considered by Congress.

A Senate panel shrugged off shouting protesters today to approve President Trump's nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved David Bernhardt as Interior deputy secretary in a 14-9 vote, paving the way for his confirmation by the full Senate.

Two rangers were shot and killed in a Kenyan conservation area while trying to recover stolen cattle.

Britain's Antarctic station Halley may have to close temporarily because of an expanding crack on the ice shelf on which it rests.

The African nation of Gabon announced Monday the creation of the continent's largest network of protected marine areas, spanning 20 marine parks and protecting 26 percent of Gabon's territorial seas.

A school bus failed to squeeze through boulders by Balanced Rock in Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colo., this week.

The Transportation Department wants companies and the public to help speed infrastructure projects by identifying what they consider burdensome requirements.

Electric vehicle sales are surging but could still fall below increasingly ambitious goals if incentives aren't maintained, according to the International Energy Agency.

Donald Vidrine, the man who faced prosecution as one of the BP PLC supervisors during the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in 2010, died in his home in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday.

The Justice Department moved late Monday to dismiss a lawsuit against an Obama-era decision that rejected renewal of mineral rights leases for a proposed northeastern Minnesota copper-nickel mine.

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