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A pilot project in California aims to create "floodplain fatties" — well-fed young salmon — by collecting bugs from rice paddies.

Two people were arrested after trying to chain themselves to a wild bison enclosure in Yellowstone National Park, according to park officials.

U.S. EPA's Chesapeake Bay cleanup program is working, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.

U.S. EPA chief Scott Pruitt flew first class several times as Oklahoma's attorney general, according to documents obtained by The Oklahoman.

The Dow Chemical Co. lawyer President Trump nominated to lead U.S. EPA's solid waste office could oversee nearly 200 toxic waste sites his company is responsible for cleaning up, including a heavily contaminated New Jersey tract flagged by Administrator Scott Pruitt for urgent action.

The House Natural Resources Committee today approved three bills related to mining, federal lands and the recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Senate Democrats today proposed spending more than $100 billion on grid modernization and climate-resilient infrastructure as part of a broad counteroffer to the plan President Trump put out last month.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's move to approve African trophy hunting permits on a case-by-case basis pleases hunters and dismays non-hunting conservationists but leaves some practical, legal and even presidential questions unresolved.

Seeking to fix an $11.6 billion maintenance backlog in the national parks, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke found help today when a bipartisan group of eight senators introduced legislation that would use revenue from new energy development to pay for delayed park projects.

HOUSTON — Energy Secretary Rick Perry today said fossil fuels have a role to play in fighting poverty and cleaning the environment.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — The wood stork faces peril due to extensive wetlands draining near the Everglades. The wading bird could lose more ground as the Trump administration redefines which wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act.

An armed group kidnapped 18 gorilla sanctuary employees in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week and is demanding a large ransom.

China plans to construct a massive panda conservation park in southwestern Sichuan province by 2023.

A flock of crows that fell from the sky in Portland, Ore., in January was intentionally poisoned, the Oregon State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and state Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed yesterday.

A California water panel approved new regulations this week to allow treated, recycled water from sewers to be put in reservoirs.

Colorado state lawmakers yesterday voted down a bill that would have required regulators to prioritize public health in decisions about oil and gas drilling in cities.

Environmentalists are criticizing fashion label Chanel after the company cut down several oak and poplar trees to make the runway at its winter fashion show look like an autumn forest.

Twenty-one tech companies, led by Google and the World Wildlife Fund, are forming the Global Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, according to an announcement yesterday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will likely pass a new mining code that will increase royalties on cobalt mining, a move that could increase prices on smartphones, electric vehicles and other products.

Federal regulators have fined FirstEnergy Corp. and a contractor more than $200,000 after a fatal gas leak at Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant.

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