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Norwegian energy giant Statoil ASA has struck out at an Arctic oil well that was at the center of a Greenpeace protest last month.

Lawyers representing thousands of Nigerian fishermen suing Royal Dutch Shell PLC say their clients have rejected a $50 million settlement offer from the oil company.

The Earth's forests are "fundamental" to human survival and well-being because they provide direct sources of food, fuel and income, according to a U.N. forestry chief.

While the identity of a body recovered Saturday in Mount Rainier National Park has not been verified by a local medical examiner, the Seattle hiking community is already mourning one of its own.

Squirrels may be guiding the evolution of forests by favoring certain kinds of pine seeds, which in turn could affect the way lodgepoles respond to fire, a study has found.

Environmental groups are asking the Fish and Wildlife Service to list wild horses as an endangered species, raising questions about whether the animals are native to the United States.

Great white shark numbers are surging in the waters off the eastern coast of the United States and Canada, researchers found in a recent study.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is hoping to improve its troubled relationship with recreational fishermen by drafting an agencywide policy that underscores their importance.

U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are extending the comment period for proposed rulemaking to clarify the Clean Water Act's reach, according to a notice to be published in tomorrow's edition of the Federal Register.

A former senior Department of Energy official has signed up to lobby for one of the country's biggest nuclear power companies.

Incoming House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) yesterday rejected an increase in the federal gas tax as a means of pumping more revenue into the Highway Trust Fund.

U.S. EPA's biggest critic and its staunchest defender will take the witness stand on Capitol Hill this week in what promises to be a lively showdown.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's crackdown on the ivory trade has led to lawmakers relaying their constituents' haggles over elephant hunting and piano keys to the Obama administration.

Mothers exposed to farm pesticides during pregnancy are more likely to have children with autism-related disorders and developmental delays, a new study finds.

This morning's Supreme Court ruling striking down certain parts of U.S. EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases from large sources should propel the agency to devise a way to count carbon from biomass energy, forest groups said today.

Today's Supreme Court ruling that limited some of U.S. EPA's permitting program for greenhouse gases raised a big question: What does it mean for hot-button proposals for curbing heat-trapping emissions from power plants?

The Supreme Court today threw out part of U.S. EPA's air permitting program for heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

The United Nations has rejected Australia's plan to open up part of a protected Tasmanian rainforest for logging.

The Iraqi government has lost the country's largest oil refinery as local tribal leaders negotiated the surrender of the last of government troops trapped inside after a two-week siege.

A study released today by the United Nations and Interpol said insurgents and terrorist groups are profiting royally from an "enormous increase" in environmental crime in recent years to the detriment of developing nations.

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