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The man who smuggled nearly 100 songbirds in his luggage on a flight from Vietnam was sentenced yesterday to six months in home detention followed by a year in prison.

A Crow Tribe member has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review his treaty rights case after a jury found him guilty last year of killing an elk out of season in Bighorn National Forest in 2014.

Environmentalists and states that support the Clean Power Plan implored a federal court today to issue a decision on the legality of the Obama-era carbon rule.

Media reports last week about the "planet-killing potential" of a supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park were overblown, one expert says.

Rabobank NA is joining the United Nations in a $1 billion effort to help farmers transition to sustainable agriculture practices.

The state of Colorado posted top results in a survey released today by the Center for Western Priorities that examined state policies on issues ranging from recreational access to energy development.

Researchers are concerned about the fate of coral reefs in a national marine sanctuary about 100 miles offshore of Galveston, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey dumped over 13 trillion gallons of floodwater in the Gulf of Mexico.

More than 350 former National Park Service employees today disparaged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendations to reduce the acreage of a half-dozen national monuments and alter the management plans of others. They also criticized the agency as "utterly unconscionable" for failing to release a public report following its review of those sites.

The United States would extract less coal and employ fewer miners if the Trump administration is serious about an all-of-the-above path to energy dominance, according to a new analysis.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry's proposal to boost coal and nuclear sent oil and gas interests into an unlikely alliance with renewable energy sources. Now conservative groups are teaming up with greens against the idea.

FREDERICK, Md. — When the roof and windows needed repairs at the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, N.Y., Moss Rudley got the call.

A U.S. EPA career employee has been selected as acting assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Development.

A federal judge yesterday dealt a blow to a multinational forest products company in its legal war with Greenpeace over the environmental group's campaign labeling it a "forest destroyer."

The Trump administration has cleared the way for a controversial project that would suck groundwater from under Southern California's Mojave Desert and sell it to water providers.

The deaths of two Turkish beekeepers earlier this spring sent a chill through the efforts of fellow environmental activists.

A U.S.-based energy firm plans to construct three new solar plants in the Gaza Strip by April.

Deforestation dropped 16 percent in Brazil's Amazon rainforest this year through July when compared to the same period in 2016.

It's tough to get a ticket to the popular Museum of Ice Cream in San Francisco, but for a taste of what the pop-up exhibit is like, look no further than the city's streets.

New Mexico will make revisions to a school science standard proposal after widespread public backlash over the state's omission of climate change, the age of Earth and evolution.

As California prepares for legal marijuana sales, state regulators approved rules yesterday governing water use by commercial growers.

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