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A Yellowstone National Park concession worker was found dead near the Old Faithful Lodge on Tuesday after she reportedly missed several shifts and failed to meet a family member.

The Forest Service has given the green light for loggers to remove trees killed in a massive forest fire that swept through central California last year.

A river in Washington's Olympic National Park is running free for the first time since 1927 after a construction crew detonated charges at the Glines Canyon Dam on Tuesday to release the waterway into its original riverbed.

The Obama administration is advancing a relatively new initiative designed to protect community water supplies and reservoirs from catastrophic damage caused by large wildfires.

After years of consideration, the Obama administration plans to protect 20 species of coral under the Endangered Species Act.

California will rework parts of its controversial plan to revamp the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water delivery system, state officials announced yesterday.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's top Democrat is asking U.S. EPA for answers on why it failed to include a specific safety factor to assess the risk of the weedkiller 2,4-D in young children and infants.

Utilities in California must reduce methane leaks from natural gas pipelines under a bill now on Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) desk.

Pennsylvania's Republican governor, facing a tough re-election bid and attacks from environmental activists, is asking federal regulators to be "sensitive" to communities awash in new infrastructure as new shale plays are tapped.

A State Department lawyer who played a central role in the Obama administration's ongoing review of Keystone XL is leaving the government after nine years, giving a new confidence boost to environmentalists opposed to the pipeline.

A longtime senior official for the National Wildlife Federation has been selected to lead the Wind Energy Foundation, a nonprofit industry-funded group that promotes public awareness of wind as a clean energy source and supports research.

When a Nevada county commissioner in May led a horseback ride more than 300 miles across northern Nevada to protest the Bureau of Land Management's grazing closures on public lands, it got the agency's attention.

An independent scientific report commissioned by the Bureau of Land Management that analyzed current hydraulic fracturing operations in California appears to strike down a number of key arguments used by opponents of the controversial industry practice, concluding that fracking does not significantly increase seismic activity and consumes substantially less water per well than in other states.

A new front has opened up in the battle over the regulatory reach of the Clean Water Act: mapping.

Less than 100 miles off the East Coast, underwater cities of coral sit deep beneath the surface, populating dozens of canyons with unique species that can live for thousands of years.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The blueprint for one of the most ambitious mass transit networks ever envisioned in the Southeast calls for some 72 miles of rail lines, rapid bus routes and even a streetcar here in North Carolina's largest metro area. But eight years after its formal adoption, the transit plan is still short about $5 billion of what's needed to for it reach fruition, according to one estimate.

Amid one the worst droughts in decades, Guatemala has declared a state of emergency in the hope that government and international agencies can offer relief to the almost 170,000 families in the country who have already lost almost all their crops.

China today announced a tax break for electric cars, the latest in a series of government efforts to push the world's largest auto market toward greener vehicles to combat rampant pollution problems.

The disappearance of 18 suspected poachers in Kenya has led a human rights group to accuse wildlife rangers of having killed the criminals to cover up a collusion with elephant killers.

Birds contaminated with mercury left behind from an old factory in Virginia sing a simpler tune than they once did, according to researchers.

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