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Indian authorities cut power to a copper smelter today after police shot and killed protesters.

Central Australia just completed construction on the world's longest cat-proof fence in an effort to protect endangered marsupials.

Single-use plastic bags, straws and food containers will no longer be allowed in a New Jersey beach town.

West Virginia's Commerce Department fired its deputy secretary, Josh Jarrell, after $17 million in money for repairs from the deadly June 2016 flood was mishandled.

Returning visitors to beaches in Ocean City, Md., will notice larger beaches with deeper swimming areas.

Images from the erupting Kilauea volcano in Hawaii show rare blue flames burning in pavement cracks as a wave of lava advances in the background.

California lawmakers yesterday lambasted major paint manufacturers Sherwin Williams Co. and Conagra Brands Inc. for their proposed ballot initiative that would force the state to assume their legal responsibility to clean up lead paint.

Uber Technologies Inc. has halted the testing of self-driving cars in Arizona a little over two months after one of its cars killed a pedestrian.

Sports arenas and stadiums in recent years have been leading the way on green design.

Manure lagoons from North Carolina's many pig farms are inspiring residents to hold their noses and protest.

Environmentalists opened up a new front in the legal wrangling over the future of a controversial power plant on the Navajo reservation.

Environmentalists flocked together today to file suits against the Interior Department over a controversial narrowing of Migratory Bird Treaty Act protections.

Two dead whales that washed up on California shores last week died from human-related causes, according to Marine Mammal Center officials.

In 2017, 164 coyotes were killed in Wyoming by M-44 "cyanide bombs," according to an annual report from the Agriculture Department.

Thirty-six-year Air Force veteran Gen. Lori Robinson is retiring as head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command after having to deal with wildfires and hurricanes on top of other threats like Russian bombers.

Wyoming officials gave the green light yesterday for the state to hold its first grizzly bear hunt since 1974.

After a record-breaking year of hurricanes in 2017, NOAA today predicted a "near- or above-normal" season for 2018 that will deliver five to nine hurricanes in the Atlantic.

Winter losses of honeybee colonies continue to climb — and beekeepers appear willing to accept increased declines, an annual survey showed.

James W. Kurth's first Fish and Wildlife Service posting planted him in the Deep South, exotic habitat indeed for a Midwesterner.

Eleven months ago, President Trump stood onstage at the Department of Energy and promised a "complete review" of the country's domestic nuclear energy policy, with the aim of revitalizing a struggling industry.

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