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Just shy of one month into 2018, London has reached the legal limit on air pollution for the whole year.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet yesterday signed into law five national parks spanning more than 10 million acres.

Amazon.com Inc. yesterday officially opened an indoor rainforest at its Seattle headquarters, a structure that is quickly becoming a city landmark.

Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials are working on a long-term plan to keep walleye in the Buffalo Bill Reservoir from damaging one of the state's most popular wild trout fisheries.

A report by Milwaukee Health Department officials says staff shortages, turnover, poor training and other dysfunction at the department contributed to oversight failures by the city's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.

Dayne Walling, who was ousted as mayor of Flint, Mich., during the city's water crisis, is running for a seat in the Michigan House.

Volkswagen AG said today it has suspended Thomas Steg, head of external relations and sustainability, after revelations that monkeys were exposed to diesel exhaust in testing.

Elon Musk's tunneling startup, the Boring Co., is selling flamethrowers to finance underground transportation systems.

California water regulators have approved more than $34 million in grants for eight desalination projects, aiming to increase the water supply after the state recently faced a historic drought.

Industrial production of toxic chemicals tracked by U.S. EPA grew 2 percent during the final year of the Obama administration, the agency announced today.

Representatives of 16 federal regulatory and research agencies released a plan today aimed at reducing or eliminating the use of animals in chemical- and medical-product testing.

A week after the Trump administration slapped tariffs on imported solar panels, a Chinese manufacturer has announced plans to make panels in the United States.

About half of the military's infrastructure has been affected by extreme weather and other climate-related risks, according to a Pentagon report obtained by a nonpartisan climate think tank.

Newly elected New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is re-entering his state into a regional cap-and-trade program.

An animal rights group has launched a lawsuit aiming to prevent a planned roundup of nearly 10,000 wild horses in Nevada.

Conservationists are trying a surprising tactic to save endangered African elephants: exposing them to bees.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency tomorrow will officially shut down its food and water aid operations in Puerto Rico, even as many in the U.S. territory continue to deal with the effects of Hurricane Maria.

The National Park Service is calling on visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington to stop leaving cremated human remains there.

Groups of wetlands are five times better at reducing nitrate levels in rivers and streams than conservation strategies on land, according to new research.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's apparent about-face last week, restoring the Obama administration's proposed restrictions on southeastern Alaska's proposed Pebble mine, had some Alaskans scratching their heads.

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