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Ivory Coast officials have busted an international animal trafficking ring, they said yesterday.

Four years ago, the Texas coastline was covered with massive towers of seaweed, and researchers still haven't figured out why.

Officials have dug out 93,000 pounds of Mardi Gras beads from the storm drains of a five-block stretch of downtown New Orleans.

About a half-ton of fish have been removed from Xcel Energy Inc.'s Valmont power plant in Colorado as work to remove coal ash ponds continues.

Metro officials in Washington are defending their track inspections and disaster response after the derailment of a Red Line train last week.

The engineer of the Amtrak train that derailed in Washington state last month said he doesn't remember seeing speed limit signs before the fatal crash, according to a federal report.

California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Tesla Inc. for inadequate chemical safety protocols.

The owners of a north Indiana coke manufacturing plant will pay $5 million in fines, alongside rebuilding chronically leaky ovens and taking other steps to cut emissions of lead, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds and particulate matter, under a tentative consent decree lodged yesterday in federal court.

Questions about the Park Police's fatal shooting of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar linger despite the release of video of the incident, which happened in Virginia in November.

Siemens Corp. plans to lay off 202 workers at a wind turbine blade plant in Fort Madison, Iowa.

Idaho does not need to alter its trapping regulations to protect federally the threatened Canada lynx from unintentional snaring by traps designed to capture bobcats, a federal court said this week, reversing a previous ruling.

A federal appeals court this week refused to revive a pair of lawsuits filed by green groups that sought to expand stormwater permitting.

A circus that got stranded this week on an Oklahoma highway with four elephants in tow is taking flak from animal rights activists.

The Pacific Northwest would be dangerously unprepared if it were hit with a tsunami, experts and state officials said after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck near Alaska this week.

The rain from Hurricane Harvey was likely the most extreme in U.S. history, according to an in-depth study by the National Hurricane Center released yesterday.

The National Wildlife Federation's public lands policy director, Kate Zimmerman, died unexpectedly last week at age 63.

Over 11 billion plastic items are covering corals across the ocean and increasing disease in the vulnerable species twentyfold, according to new research.

The Interior Department has resumed the long slog toward development of a big California irrigation drainage system, because the controversial alternative remains mired down in Congress.

The Trump administration today downgraded a review on whether to extend for 20 years a ban on new mining claims in northern Minnesota.

The company looking to develop the controversial Pebble mine project in Alaska has hired former House Natural Resources Chairman Richard Pombo as part of its K Street team.

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