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A Japanese startup plans to build a small electric car that floats in floods or even cruises slowly in water.

A utility permit is not enough to authorize construction of Elon Musk's proposed high-speed Hyperloop transportation project under the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, according to the Maryland attorney general's office.

Bijan Ghaisar was shot in the head by U.S. Park Police last November, and the incident has left family and friends baffled.

U.S. EPA failed for 12 years to turn over documents to Congress regarding its grants under a program to monitor coastal water safety, the agency's inspector general has found.

Major League Baseball is about to get its biggest solar energy project.

As climate change leaves caribou more often trapped in close quarters with their predators, the Ontario government had to get creative to save three of the animals stuck on an island with wolves.

A climate story made the list as President Trump announced his "Fake News Awards" last night.

The Pentagon tomorrow is slated to release the first National Defense Strategy in a decade, and much like the White House security document it draws on, climate change won't be featured.

The city of Oroville, Calif., has launched a lawsuit against the state Department of Water Resources, claiming that the Oroville Dam crisis was the result of years of complacency and mismanagement at the agency.

Sea lion populations along California's coast have overcome a series of catastrophes and reached their optimum sustainable population, according to NOAA scientists.

Record-breaking low temperatures swept across the South yesterday, leading to poor driving conditions, closed facilities and at least 10 reported deaths.

Sixty percent of the population of an endangered antelope died in 2015 over the span of three weeks, and now researchers think they know why.

U.S. EPA says it no longer approves of Ohio's decision to omit parts of Lake Erie from a list of impaired waters that environmentalists say is critical to reducing toxic algae blooms there.

Interior Department lawyers are now preparing to flesh out their controversial recasting of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Serious big-game hunters will now help Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke take aim on policies ranging from elephant trophy imports to foreign wildlife protections.

Only Congress would be able to expand or create new national monuments in Arizona under a bill House Republicans introduced this week.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today advanced several Trump administration nominees, including Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) to head NASA and AccuWeather Inc. CEO Barry Myers to lead NOAA.

For about 4 ½ hours yesterday, ferc.gov was AWOL.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is touting his work already done at the agency and his plans for EPA over the coming years.

The planet just had one of the hottest years on record, continuing a troubling trend of warming that government scientists said is largely driven by human activity.

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