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Rice growers have long held that rice fields are good for ducks, but a new study has finally hung a price tag on what U.S. rice production is worth to hunters and conservationists.

Boots Allen first came across a Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the 1980s, when his father took him fly-fishing at Yellowstone Lake.

A lack of prey may have contributed to a mass stranding of young California sea lions that began last year, according to new data from the National Marine Fisheries Service.

The developer of a massive wind project off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts has signed an agreement with environmental groups to ensure that preconstruction activities minimize harm to the endangered right whale.

The war over donors is heating up in West Virginia and Kentucky, with Democrats and Republicans combing through each other's backers to find any evidence of anti-coal or anti-miner money.

Yesterday's sweeping federal report on climate change's toll on the United States should spur the GOP to offer its own ideas for how to combat the problem, according to two moderate Republicans.

A House Appropriations panel approved a fiscal 2015 transportation spending bill this morning as one Democratic lawmaker voiced concern that it omits funding for an Obama administration initiative to address safety worries surrounding the growing use of trains to ship crude oil.

House members today questioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's request for a budget boost in fiscal 2015, even though U.S. reactors are closing and efforts to develop small modular reactors are facing challenges.

Increased levels of carbon dioxide may pose one of the most dangerous threats to humans by 2050 by significantly reducing the nutritional value of major global crops like wheat and rice.

As a bipartisan Senate energy efficiency bill sputters to a halt for the second time in eight months, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today charged the GOP with carrying water for Charles and David Koch -- the conservative energy magnates whose affiliated group is opposing the measure.

Third of three stories on the traditional energy industry's embrace of clean technology. Click here for the first story and here for the second.

U.S. EPA employees have been watching pornography on the job, selling jewelry from the office and raking in paychecks without doing work, according to agency watchdogs.

With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-N.M.) blocking amendments to the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill, what's next for the measure? During today's OnPoint, Elizabeth Tate, director of government relations at the Alliance to Save Energy, discusses the political challenges plaguing the efficiency bill.

Researchers have discovered 14 new species of dancing frogs in a threatened habitat in southern India.

Dozens of Chinese ships escorting a deep-sea drilling rig have been ramming and using water cannons against Vietnamese vessels trying to stop China from setting up the rig in a disputed part of the South China Sea.

After days of disputes with Gov. John Kasich's (R) office, Ohio senators early this morning passed a bill that would institute a two-year pause to renewable energy and energy efficiency standards while a legislative panel studies their effects.

A fire that tore through a coal plant in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday was caused when lubricating oil hit hot steam pipes, local fire officials said in a statement.

A World Health Organization study of 1,600 cities has found that Indian cities reported having the dirtiest air, while pollution statistics on China's metropolitan areas were harder to discern.

U.S. EPA today announced it will add seven new hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites and proposed five additional sites for possible inclusion in the future.

A Bureau of Land Management worker was harassed at gunpoint Tuesday on a Utah highway, officials said, and now employees in the western part of the state are removing BLM logos from their vehicles to avoid being hassled themselves.

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