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Kuwaiti authorities are battling a new crude oil spill in the Abu Fatira area, just one day after containing an initial leak that traveled into southern waters.

The Canadian government will look at ways to boost regulatory efficiency when overhauling its environmental review process, said Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr.

Farming activity has led to unsafe nitrate and bacteria levels in drinking water across the country, according to an analysis by News21 and the Center for Public Integrity.

Colorado River water users are likely in the clear for next year and possibly at least two more thanks to a snowy winter in the Rocky Mountains.

In the wake of a nuclear blast, don't use conditioner in your hair.

Officials in Washington state are complaining privately that they do not have enough information about the ingredients used in the diluent flowing through the Trans Mountain pipeline.

The newest five-year federal offshore oil and gas leasing program kicked off in earnest this morning, with 27 companies submitting 99 bids for rights to drill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The southeastern United States will bear the brunt of economic damage from an increase in harmful algal blooms across large freshwater reservoirs and lakes brought on by climate change, according to new research.

Defense attorneys yesterday declined to give closing arguments for four of the men who took part in the 2014 Nevada armed standoff between ranchers and federal agents near Bunkerville, Nev.

A federal appeals court should scotch a utility industry bid to delay litigation over U.S. EPA regulations to curb ozone-forming pollution that crosses state lines, Delaware and a coalition of environmental and public health groups said in a filing yesterday.

A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the Obama administration decision forcing two Wyoming refineries to meet production targets under the renewable fuel standard.

A new nonnative species has been found in the western basin of Lake Erie.

The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is known for the contentious detention center that houses suspected terrorists, but the 45 square miles of protected land on the base has also become a hub for wildlife conservation.

A wildfire yesterday engulfed more than 1,600 acres in Yosemite National Park.

Accidental deaths at the hands of fishermen and ships are dimming long-term survival prospects for the endangered North Atlantic right whale, according to marine scientists and environmentalists.

The Gulf of Mexico has concentrations of plastics that are approaching the highest reported in the world.

Wildfires could put a damper on the solar eclipse in Oregon.

The Lincoln Memorial was vandalized with red spray paint early yesterday.

Public comments on NOAA's review of marine monuments and sanctuaries suggest overwhelming public support for maintaining the "blue parks," according to a new analysis by the Marine Conservation Institute.

Sen. Luther Strange and former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore will move to the next round of votes in a hotly contested Republican primary in Alabama that pits the establishment against the party's conservative factions.

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