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The man who built Barrick Gold Corp., the world's largest gold mining company, has died at age 90.

A federal court today dismissed an oil and gas industry challenge to a surcharge imposed by one of the nation's largest freight rail networks for transporting crude oil.

A federal appeals court Friday denied Maui's request that it reconsider a ruling on groundwater discharges the Hawaiian island claimed could have "crippling" implications for wastewater management.

After teetering on the brink of extinction less than two decades ago, the Iberian lynx is back thanks to European efforts to breed and relocate the species — and thanks to a whole lot of rabbits.

Why is Yellowstone home to a sleeping supervolcano, hot springs and geysers? It turns out the magma plume fueling Yellowstone's hot spot goes way down to the Earth's outer core.

Sparky, a bison best known for surviving a lightning strike at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, has died. He was 14.

Yosemite National Park's new superintendent is no stranger to one of the nation's most iconic landscapes.

Demand for federal coal has fallen since the Trump administration ended the Obama-era ban a year ago on leasing public land for mining.

After years of study and litigation, the Fish and Wildlife Service today listed the yellow lance freshwater mussel as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Lobbyist Julia Peebles says she eats what she kills.

Then-Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus was caught up in a far-fetched plot to assassinate President Carter while the two took a rafting trip in Idaho.

Ranchers at the iconic Point Reyes National Seashore near San Francisco have hired a former congressman as a lobbyist, opening a new front in their yearslong battle with environmentalists.

Jack Gerard, the outgoing head of the country's largest and most prominent oil trade group, is taking a leadership position with the Mormon church after he steps down in August.

The Department of Energy has stopped calling its solar arm the "SunShot Initiative" and is weighing an overhaul to a key solar competition, prompting new worries about the Trump administration's intentions on renewable power.

Cherry blossoms were in bloom this morning on the quiet Capitol Hill street where U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt once lived part of last year when in Washington.

Lumsden Quan carefully removed the rhinoceros horns from a silver-toned suitcase and placed them on the floor of the Las Vegas hotel room. "Are you pleased with it?" he asked the man he knew as Larry. In fact, Larry was satisfied -- though not for the reasons Quan thought.

An Indian family says a monkey snatched and killed their infant.

Chinese officials have seized more than 122,000 tons of illegally imported garbage this year, as part of the country's effort to crack down on solid waste brought in from overseas, state media said yesterday.