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The namesake and largest booster of Miami's new science museum believes any connection between human activities and climate change remains unproven.

A new study shows that Louisiana's coastline is sinking 50 percent faster than was estimated two years ago.

U.S. tech companies promised to stop using chemicals that caused miscarriages and birth defects about 25 years ago, but they failed to make sure their suppliers in Asian countries did the same.

When the Zika virus struck Miami last year, the Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control quickly started spraying several pesticides, one of which they realized had zero effect over halfway through the Zika season.

Five Hanford Nuclear Reservation workers needed medical evaluations as a precaution when they and other workers reported suspicious smells that could mean chemical vapors were in the air Tuesday.

The World Health Organization has said the weedkiller glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto Co.'s Roundup product, is "probably carcinogenic."

Twenty percent of baby food sampled by the Food and Drug Administration contained lead, compared with 14 percent of food for children and adults, according to a study released today by the Environmental Defense Fund.

There might be a new high-tech way to do the expensive and sometimes dangerous work of inspecting oil and gas pipelines: robots.

U.S. EPA brokered a deal this week that gives West Virginia nearly a decade to set limits on water pollution attributed to coal mining.

A ballot push by activists in Spokane, Wash., to impose local regulations on trains carrying coal and oil through the city has spurred strong opposition from the rail industry.

The Amazon could suffer permanent damage if developers move forward with an extensive dam-building program, according to researchers.

The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board, a state agency funded by oil and gas producers, has spent more than $40 million over the last 20 years on providing education resources with a pro-industry bent to students from kindergarten to high school.

Environmental group WildEarth Guardians yesterday filed five lawsuits against federal agencies — including the Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services program — asserting the Trump administration has repeatedly failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests in recent months.

U.S. EPA and environmentalists are squaring off in court over the fate of an Obama-era rule curbing toxic metals in power plant wastewater discharges.

Gray seal populations are booming along New England coasts where the species was once hunted nearly to extinction.

A 21-year-old North Carolina man was severely burned after falling into a Yellowstone National Park thermal feature.

The annual summer dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay may be larger than average, according to scientists.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke yesterday visited Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, one of the dozens of monuments to be reviewed for downsizing under an order from President Trump.

The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee and various interest groups yesterday slammed the Commerce Department's decision to extend the federal fishing season for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico by 39 days, asserting it could lead to overfishing of the species.

The Marine Conservation Institute today released a letter signed by more than 500 scientists urging the Senate to protect the status of five marine monuments under review by the Trump administration.

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