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Great tits in the United Kingdom have slightly longer beaks than their counterparts in the Netherlands, and it may be due to British bird feeders.

The marine food web structure in the open sea has long been considered stable by researchers, but two decades worth of data from Southern California dolphins now prove them wrong.

HOUSTON — An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than the company initially reported, the U.S. Coast Guard is now saying.

The Bureau of Land Management's national advisory panel on wild horses and burros is once again recommending the agency take definitive steps to remove — and destroy if necessary — thousands of excess animals that federal officials concede the vast Western rangelands can no longer sustain.

Mining and energy companies are asking the Trump administration to get U.S. EPA out of Clean Water Act permitting for dredge-and-fill projects.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry said this week he won't run against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) despite earlier supportive comments from President Trump.

Jim Connaughton — President George W. Bush's top White House environmental official — talks a lot these days about needing a "serious" response to global warming.

BALTIMORE — Most of the U.S. EPA criminal investigators who had been assigned to Administrator Scott Pruitt's security detail are back at work on cases, according to an agency official.

The Trump administration has roiled allies in the oil sector after bending a knee to Corn Belt senators and backing off biodiesel reforms.

Meet Lolita Zinke, the woman dubbed a "real trooper" by her husband.

A weakening typhoon hit Japan today, killing four people and causing flooding and landslides.

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. received federal permission last week to leave tainted coal tar in the Congaree River in South Carolina instead of digging it up.

Monsanto Co. has launched a lawsuit against Arkansas over the state's proposed summer ban on dicamba, an herbicide that's been tied to widespread crop damage.

The upward trend in backyard chicken raising has caused a spike in poultry-related illnesses and infections.

Robert de Zafra, a physicist whose work helped confirm that chemicals were enlarging a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, died last week after respiratory complications from surgery. He was 85.

After Hurricane Irma sent foul stormwater flowing into Biscayne Bay, environmentalists worry about the potential for long-term damage.

Electric carmaker Tesla Inc. wasn't happy when Consumer Reports predicted its Model 3 would have "average" reliability.

A Wyoming mine where a worker was killed last month has been fined for safety problems with roofs and walls more than 60 times in the past seven years, according to federal mine safety data.

An Ohio man was found guilty Friday in the slaying of a coal executive in West Virginia last year.

A federal court has denied requests by conservation groups to stop construction of a transmission line across the James River in Virginia until two lawsuits that claim the project will forever mar the site of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Va., are resolved.

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