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Barbuda will restrict activities on a third of its waters after meetings with fishing communities, marine biologists and other stakeholders.

A magnitude-6.9 earthquake has shaken a lightly inhabited area of central Peru, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A flood in northern Bangladesh has stripped almost a half-million people of their homes and destroyed crops and roads.

A mine fire that has burned for years in Pennsylvania could be finally extinguished by a $1.4 million project to douse the flames.

State wildlife officials approved a controlled hunt Saturday for wolves consistently preying on a rancher's sheep in northeastern Washington.

New Mexico officials did not perform air testing at the site of a radiation leak at a nuclear waste dump in the state earlier this year because of a staff vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site.

Concerns about the potential effects a controversial mine in northwestern British Columbia could have on American rivers and fish have prompted Alaska to make the rare request to be part of the approval process.

Astronomers are incorporating air pollution, like that plainly visible from space over Earth, into the search for extraterrestrial life.

Growing oil and gas production in Colorado is posing pollution challenges for neighboring Utah, which has seen growing problems with wastewater stored in evaporation ponds.

China has filed an appeal of a World Trade Organization dispute panel report on anti-dumping duties the United States applies to certain Chinese solar panel products, the organization said.

Beef prices will continue to creep up through the rest of the year, but recovering pastureland in Texas and Plains states may bring some relief to drought-fueled prices down the line, an Agriculture Department economist said today.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the country's largest federal worker union, has brought on a new lobbyist.

Mexican cartels and illegal immigrants are making use of the pathways through the U.S.-Mexico border created by pipelines and are creating danger for pipeline inspectors, according to a top Texas oil and gas regulator.

A Canadian agency has approved a new coal export terminal on the Pacific Coast near the U.S.-Canada border that will ship coal from the United States and Canada to Asian markets.

Methane gas has been seeping from at least 570 underwater seep points off the eastern continental shelf of the United States for at least 1,000 years, according to a study released yesterday in Nature Geoscience.

A Kansas town has lost a bid to retry a lawsuit brought against BP PLC to force the oil company to do more to clean up pollution from a refinery that closed in 1970.

Montana's plan to build roads and log in a state forest was blocked by a federal judge last week to prevent potential damage to grizzly bear habitat along the Continental Divide.

Venable LLP has bolstered its environmental and energy practice in Baltimore by adding four new lawyers, including a former leader of Maryland's Public Service Commission.

The Obama administration has denied an environmental group's petition that sought to compel the Interior Department to develop specific rules to protect the greater sage grouse from surface and underground coal mines.

A proposal to use dynamite to access up to 240,000 ounces of gold buried beneath land near Nevada City, Calif., is facing stiff resistance from local residents.

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