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A tip led a Florida wildlife officer to the scene of a threatened tortoise slaughter and feast on Florida's west coast.

Researchers are blaming fishing bait shops and careless anglers for helping invasive species, like the widely feared Asian carp, spread through waterways in and around the Great Lakes.

The Department of Agriculture has seized about 1,200 illegal giant African snails, all tracing back to a single illegal vendor in Georgia.

Authorities yesterday found a body in Cuyahoga Valley National Park while searching for a missing woman in the area.

Brazil could conserve the majority of the species in its Atlantic Forest and preserve most of the benefits derived from its ecosystem by investing $200 million a year into programs paying farmers to protect certain tracts, according to a study released yesterday.

A rare frog found in the Pacific Northwest will receive federal protections, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.

HOUSTON -- The endangered whooping crane will have more land to call home thanks to a major new land acquisition by the state of Texas.

Stakeholders yesterday gave feedback on what they hope will appear on the Obama administration's illegal fishing and seafood agenda due out later this year.

The Legislature in drought-stricken California is moving toward its first-ever statewide oversight of groundwater, a move water experts argue is needed to protect supplies.

More than $66 million generated by the California ballot measure that billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer largely funded is being doled out to schools to make energy efficiency upgrades.

Secretive "dark money" groups that don't have to disclose their political donors are on pace to shatter spending records this cycle, new figures show.

Jennifer Haverkamp, who until recently headed up the Environmental Defense Fund's international climate program, could soon oversee the State Department's broadening oceans agenda.

President Obama yesterday announced his intention to nominate Colette Honorable, a top state utility regulator and a rumored favorite for months, to serve as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

FARMVILLE, N.C. -- David Hodgkins sees lost opportunity in a soggy soybean field in the coastal plain an hour east of Raleigh.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has released a new draft of a sweeping bill to reform logging on western Oregon's O&C lands and has pledged to advance it amid lingering opposition from the timber industry and environmentalists.

The Bureau of Land Management will resume oil and gas leasing activity in California for the first time since December 2012 based on the results of an independent scientific review on hydraulic fracturing in the state, BLM's top official in California announced yesterday.

California Gov. Jerry Brown's grand plan for building tunnels for water deliveries under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta could run afoul of the federal Clean Water Act, U.S. EPA warned yesterday.

How will Tesla's Nevada battery Gigafactory shape the future of the electric vehicle industry? On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire reporter Julia Pyper discusses the politics of the decision and talks about how Wall Street is reacting to the $5 billion move by the automaker.

Japanese officials will ask nuclear plant operators to draft plans for managing older reactors, which could include closing those units.

The Panama Canal Authority is collaborating with the country's environmental agency to relocate howler monkeys, poisonous snakes, sloths, crocodiles and even some rare insects, among other creatures, before construction equipment moves in to clear space for the canal's expansion.

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