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Authorities are investigating whether arson caused one of two wildfires burning in Oklahoma, according to a local sheriff.

Newly released transcripts provide FBI agents' remarks after law enforcement officials shot and killed Robert "LaVoy" Finicum in Oregon in 2016.

One in eight bird species on Earth faces the threat of extinction, according to a new definitive study.

Scientists last week discovered that a mysterious disease has infected the coral reefs in Florida's Lower Keys, despite a four-year effort to stop its spread.

Attempts by conservationists to remove a thick rope tangled around a female North Atlantic right whale were partially successful.

Late last year, scientists discovered a new species of great ape, the Tapanuli orangutan, in northern Sumatra.

Environmentalists and sportsmen alike are pushing back against the Trump administration's plan for oil and gas leasing in Nevada's Ruby Mountains.

BOISE — Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard denounced the Trump administration as wicked and ripped Utah politicians as "the worst" during the taping of a podcast scheduled to air tomorrow.

A woman who played a major role in exposing the Flint water crisis was one of seven recipients globally of the Goldman Environmental Prize for grass-roots environmental activism.

President Trump touted rolling back environmental regulations in his Earth Day message to Americans.

Ammon Bundy, the leader of two armed standoffs challenging federal land management, over the weekend cast his feud with environmentalists and the government as a holy war.

Al Swift, an eight-term House member from Washington state, has died at the age of 82.

The environmentalists who blanketed Capitol Hill with posters mocking EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's deal living in a lobbyist-owned condo are back, this time taking Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) to task for holding fundraisers at the now-infamous property.

A federal appeals court today found that the Trump administration unlawfully delayed higher penalties for automakers that don't meet fuel economy standards.

The federal government isn't liable for Hurricane Katrina flood damage, an appeals court ruled Friday in a major case that's likely to affect other litigation over flooding tied to natural disasters.

With an expression of surprise at the continuing lack of compliance with environmental laws, EPA enforcement chief Susan Bodine warned businesses Friday against cutting corners to save money.

AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. – Anti-government activists including Ryan Bundy want to bulldoze a federal water project near the Patch of Heaven Christian camp inside a national wildlife refuge, but its owners so far have kept the battle in federal court.

The "fatbergs" that occassionally clog up London's Victorian sewers are a breeding ground for something more sinister than condoms and dirty diapers: drug-resistant bacteria.

Wildfires burning in Oklahoma have killed about 1,100 cattle so far, state agriculture officials said yesterday.

The East Asian tick has survived New Jersey's winter, researchers confirmed last week. Now the invasive species could be a permanent fixture in the state.

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