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Nespresso today said it will invest $550 million over six years to improve its environmental and social impact.

An auction for control of Texas' largest regulated utility is heading to court.

A massive $1.5 billion iron mining project in Wisconsin has been postponed by at least half a year as the company conducts further environmental research.

Clothing makers are searching for more sustainable alternatives to cotton as changing weather patterns around the world affect crop growth.

Scientists in Germany are using chemistry to tell organic and conventionally grown tomatoes apart, technology they say can help curb fraud in the agriculture business.

More than 1,500 Chicago-area homeowners have signed up to install rooftop solar panels for as much as 25 percent below market rates under a new program spearheaded by the city of Chicago, Vote Solar, the World Wildlife Fund and the Environmental Law and Policy Center.

Old coal-mining towns in Tennessee are taking sometimes desperate measures to improve their economies after their former quarries have dried up.

The contractor that operates a shuttered New Mexico nuclear waste dump has presented to the Department of Energy a plan for reopening the plant.

Environmentalists yesterday asked federal regulators to shut down a California nuclear power plant so that experts can determine if it could withstand earthquakes from several nearby faults.

Higher greenhouse gas emissions are raising the risk of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts" in the decades ahead, a draft of a new U.N. report says.

Tiny insects that damage maple and oak trees by sucking their fluids may thrive in warmer temperatures, according to a new study.

GENEVA -- Ministers gathered at the World Health Organization this morning issued a resounding call for action on the health effects of climate change.

Northern California water districts are asking a federal judge to halt additional water releases into the Lower Klamath River that were begun over the weekend by the Bureau of Reclamation to protect the river's salmon.

A handful of conservation groups yesterday filed a new lawsuit to block the Big Thorne timber project on Alaska's Tongass National Forest, arguing the Forest Service failed to heed warnings over how the project could harm wolves.

Two video game creators plan to release a game based on Wyoming forests next year.

The Smithsonian National Zoo plans to celebrate the return of an American icon Saturday when a pair of 500-pound bison arrives in Washington, D.C.

Commercial whalers in Norway have killed the largest number of whales in over two decades, with 729 catches, industry sources said Monday.

State scientists are closely monitoring a lava flow on Hawaii's Big Island that appears headed toward a small village in the island's Puna region.

A long-planned earthquake-warning system California officials want to deploy has been waiting for state funding for two years.

Fishery managers in the western Pacific Ocean this week reiterated their opposition to the Obama administration's plan to create the nation's largest-ever marine sanctuary.

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