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While desertification is taking over swaths of fertile areas around the world, the opposite is happening on Canada's western plains.

The United States is on track to make good on its pledge to reduce its industrial greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, the State Department said today in a draft report prepared for submission to the United Nations.

A new study expresses doubts about the ability of today's life-cycle analyses to capture the full greenhouse gas impacts of biofuels.

Public health advocates and Colorado law students urged federal judges today to force U.S. EPA to explain why it hasn't updated its air standard for carbon monoxide in more than four decades.

Dozens of species, including beaver, bison and eagle, have successfully recovered in Europe in the past 50 years, according to a study released today.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking into using drones for science.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today granted endangered species protections for two freshwater mussels native to the Tennessee River and designated nearly 1,400 miles of river in five states as critical habitat.

A national bird conservation group said the Obama administration's plan for managing more than 780,000 acres in northeast Wyoming will result in continued population declines of greater sage grouse and an increased probability that the imperiled bird will become endangered.

A team of scientists equipped with high-tech underwater cameras is documenting a coral-bleaching event in Bermuda.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed designating more than 25 million acres across six states as Canada lynx critical habitat in a modest increase over a previous designation that was challenged by both snowmobilers and conservationists.

Backers of major water resources legislation expected to hit the House floor early next month are taking their message to the public, pitching the bill as "smart spending" in conservative districts.

A coalition of environmental groups is urging congressional leaders to avoid including controversial environmental and energy-policy provisions in legislation being crafted to increase the debt ceiling.

Even if Congress manages to avoid a government shutdown, federal employees may face another threat to their paychecks next month.

At the same time as a majority of Americans want to build more energy infrastructure, they also want greater environmental protections, according to a new Pew Research Center survey on energy policy out today.

Labor unions expressed concern yesterday about planned reviews by Washington state regulators of coal export terminal proposals, labeling the plan "unprecedented" and potentially dangerous to development.

Federal workers are anxiously girding for the government to come to a screeching halt next week, wondering whether they'll get their next paychecks, fretting over canceling upcoming work trips and relying on the rumor mill for much of their information.

U.S. EPA has withdrawn its second attempt to fire a longtime whistle-blower, but the agency plans to try again in the coming months.

Lawmakers critical of U.S. EPA launched a legislative offensive today, promising to exhaust all options to protect coal from what they described as the agency's burdensome new carbon dioxide regulations.

Questions are rising about when U.S. EPA will release a final rule slashing the amount of sulfur in gasoline, as two key automaker groups say the agency has told them the rule will be delayed until February.

The White House is considering other candidates to replace President Obama's troubled pick of Colorado regulator Ron Binz to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a spokesman for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said today.

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