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The massive expanse of floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean is far bigger than previously thought, according to new research published in Nature.

Canadian scientists in British Columbia witnessed the first reported case of orca infanticide.

Critics of the proposed Pebble gold and copper mine in Alaska say the Army Corps of Engineers is rushing through environmental review.

The Ohio EPA has reversed course, designating Lake Erie's open waters as "impaired" in the latest federal report on states' water quality.

Lobbyists in Washington state want to use a new North American Free Trade Agreement to push forward a broad legislative plan that would make it easier for U.S. companies to export coal.

A new conservative energy advocacy group led by a former Charles Koch Institute communications staffer is working with Definers Corp., a public affairs firm that had a controversial contract with U.S. EPA that was canceled last year.

Two Obama-era EPA regional administrators have launched a New Mexico-based advisory business.

Barry Worthington, the U.S. Energy Association's executive director, appears at a glance to be in sync with the Trump administration.

A boost of $100 million for research, development and demonstration of self-driving vehicles was tucked into the $1.3 trillion fiscal 2018 spending deal.

A top House Republican wants more information on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's $139,000 office door replacements.

Iranian hackers hit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during a "massive and brazen cyber assault" that claimed thousands of victims worldwide, U.S. authorities said today.

The Trump administration today had a rough time in court fighting off environmentalists' claims that the Interior Department must take a comprehensive look at the climate impacts of federal coal leasing.

When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke this month renewed the charters governing 21 Bureau of Land Management resource advisory councils, many members were relieved, even excited, that the panels could finally get back to work after more than a year.

President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill this afternoon, hours after threatening to veto the measure over what he called insufficient funding for his planned wall along the Mexican border.

Orange-tinted snow fell in Eastern Europe over the weekend, confounding people in Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania and Moldova.

A woman in Florida "married" a tree Saturday to try to save the 100-year-old giant ficus from being cut down.

Gray wolf population growth slowed significantly in Washington state last year, and environmentalists say the state is too quick to kill wolves that prey on livestock.

A dam in South Carolina that crumbled during a deadly flood in 2015 had shown problems as early as 1979, according to records released by the Army Corps of Engineers.

U.S. trade officials asked China on Friday not to ban imports of scrap materials, saying it would wreak havoc on the global recycling industry.

A study today finds that blood lead levels in the young children of Flint, Mich., reached an all-time low in 2016, a good sign for lead abatement efforts following the city's water contamination crisis.

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