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Andrew Yang is running for president on a campaign of preventing the robot apocalypse.

Scientists have linked a magnitude 5.5 earthquake to enhanced geothermal power, raising new questions about the safety of the emerging technology when the U.S. government and other countries are investing millions of dollars researching and deploying new systems.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs today confirmed that Director Bryan Rice has resigned but refused to offer details about why he departed after just six months in office.

The White House has altered an official timeline to show that a required review of a proposed EPA science rule was finished one day before agency Administrator Scott Pruitt signed it this past Tuesday.

A toxic caterpillar has once again invaded parts of London, prompting a public warning from British forestry officials.

The Great Barrier Reef will get $379 million to improve the water and guard coral from starfish, the government announced yesterday.

State wildlife officials and law enforcement are trying to track down whoever in southwestern Oregon has been maiming wild deer with arrows.

After wildfires torched grazing lands in Oklahoma this month, deliveries of free hay are providing a lifeline to ranchers.

A Pennsylvania wildlife agency last week voted to ban wind turbines on state game lands.

The old Tappan Zee Bridge will find new life as a half-dozen artificial reefs.

As companies like Tesla Inc. race to deploy ride-hailing fleets of self-driving cars, the Pentagon could soon get its own fleet.

Plumes of smoke from last week's explosions at a Wisconsin refinery were likely toxic, experts say.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District, Silicon's Valley's largest, will vote Wednesday on whether to commit as much as $650 million to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's controversial water tunnel project under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Two investment firms are interested in a joint purchase of the Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant in Arizona, emails indicate, but they'll need to work quickly before the plant's scheduled closure in December 2019.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. has agreed to purchase pipeline and refining company Andeavor, the companies announced today. The $23.3 billion cash and stock deal would create the biggest refiner in the country by capacity.

The country's largest electric grid operator, PJM Interconnection, is kicking off a study of fuel security that could lead to changes in the way its capacity market operates.

A judge has ordered the Commerce Department to reinstate Sherry Chen, a Chinese-American hydrologist accused in a failed spy case.

A company that purchased property on which the previous owner had tax-defaulted is liable for the costs of a hazardous waste cleanup at the site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Larry Harvey, the creator of Burning Man, has died at the age of 70 after a stroke earlier this month.

Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat Geyser, the tallest geyser in the world, has erupted three times in the past six weeks, and scientists don't know why.

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