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A Japanese volcano erupted today, triggering avalanches that killed one person and injured more than a dozen others.

Continuous cuts to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources hurt the agency's ability to do its job, according to a state commission.

Kentucky meteorologists say Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's budget proposal could put residents in danger.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday threw out the state's congressional map in a win for Democrats who say it was heavily gerrymandered to favor Republicans following the 2010 census.

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake rattled Alaska early this morning, prompting a tsunami warning for much of the state's coast and western Canada.

Cleaning up a large oil spill in the Columbia River could take weeks, according to the Coast Guard.

The El Dorado Irrigation District in California is asking residents to conserve water after officials discovered yesterday that a man may have fallen into a pipe that carries raw water to a treatment plant.

Tesla Inc. has offered its CEO, Elon Musk, a new pay package that depends entirely on hitting ambitious company performance benchmarks.

A 182-megawatt solar facility planned for West Texas, the heart of oil country, would be its largest yet.

QUINTON, Okla. — Three employees of one of the country's biggest oil and gas drilling contractors are among the five people who likely died yesterday in a natural gas well explosion here.

A piece of fossilized feces found in South Carolina last year appears to show that ancient sharks loved eating poop.

Japan plans to replace the mother ship of its aging whaling fleet, against the wishes of Australia and other nations.

The recovery of a tiny bird in Michigan could be derailed by another threatened bird.

A commercial snowmobile broke Yellowstone National Park rules Sunday by driving near the famed Old Faithful geyser while much of the park's staff was off duty during the government shutdown.

The Eastern cougar is now officially extinct, declared gone beyond any hope of retrieval by the Fish and Wildlife Service or any other human agency.

The League of Conservation Voters today launched a digital campaign attacking President Trump's environmental record ahead of next week's State of the Union address.

Michael Dourson's time at U.S. EPA is coming to an end.

The Justice Department is expanding on the "limited exceptions" it will allow to a new policy barring settlement dollars from going to nongovernmental third parties in environmental enforcement cases.

The state of Alaska has asked the Department of Agriculture to exempt the Tongass National Forest from rules limiting road construction through federal forests, after losing a similar fight in the courts.

Interior Department employees returned today in full force, just in time to learn a little more about the planned reorganization that might shake them up again.

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