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Social media users are outraged after a Kentucky hunter posted images of herself posing with a black giraffe she killed in South Africa.

As more conservation land around the Dakotas' Northern Great Plains is converted to farmland, it's getting harder for honeybees to find food, according to a federal study published yesterday.

The man suspected of sparking a Colorado wildfire admitted to starting a fire but said he made sure it was out, according to a court file.

Some of the Gulf of Mexico's oldest deep-sea corals are closer to gaining federal protections.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly failing to protect imperiled freshwater mussels found in 18 states.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers painted a worrying picture of the future for nuclear energy — even by today's grim standards — in a paper published yesterday.

A trio of bills introduced last week by House members from both parties aim to boost research into coastal resiliency and ocean acidification.

In yet another late night split decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday gave New England's grid operator a new pathway to keeping two natural gas units open for purposes of fuel security.

The Trump administration is faulting its predecessor for overemphasizing science in writing a 2015 Clean Water Act rule aimed at defining what isolated wetlands and waterways deserve automatic federal regulatory protection.

Samantha Dravis, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's former policy chief, told the House Oversight Committee last week she was asked — and declined — to help secure a job for Pruitt's wife at the Republican Attorneys General Association, according to a Democratic aide on the panel.

After leaving the job vacant for nearly 18 months, President Trump is expected to nominate the superintendent of Grand Teton National Park as the 19th director of the National Park Service, according to several sources familiar with the process.

Foam pollution has killed over 2,000 fish in an England river, according to environmental authorities.

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk is sending two of his engineers to help rescue the soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand.

As a Florida town braced for Hurricane Irma's landfall last September, half of its police department's emergency unit was drinking on the job, according to an internal affairs report.

The executive director of Arizona's utilities regulatory body has resigned under pressure from fellow commissioners, who raised questions about his wife's employment for a lobbying firm involved in a key clean energy fight.

The Trump administration announced yesterday that Texas will get more than $5 billion for projects to control flooding, make repairs and conduct studies.

EPA's civil rights office said in a letter that it will investigate the civil rights practices of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

A fatigue crack in the Keystone pipeline was the cause of an estimated 210,000-gallon oil spill in South Dakota last year, according to a report the National Transportation Safety Board released yesterday.