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Rescue operations were called off today at a coal mine in Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, after 29 miners were pulled to safety following a gas explosion triggered by a small earthquake. But rescuers were unable to reach five others trapped more than 1,600 feet underground.

Animal control officers yesterday captured an albino snake in Southern California that had been on the loose after attacking a dog earlier in the week.

Some residents on Hawaii's Big Island are already packing up as a lava flow steadily moves closer to their small community.

Test results show toxic vapor seems to have migrated from the groundwater of an Army base where carcinogens were dumped decades ago to the air in homes near the base.

It would cost billions of dollars to clean up the more than 4,000 abandoned uranium mines in the western United States, according to the Department of Energy.

The Obama administration has named a former Google Inc. executive as the U.S. chief technology officer.

The Department of Energy plans to investigate a possible security breach and release of classified information at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

The nation's two largest discount retailers, normally fierce competitors, announced a joint effort yesterday to urge their beauty and personal care suppliers to share more information about the chemicals used in their products.

A new panel will help the California Energy Commission hunt for the causes of gasoline price spikes, known in the Golden State to prompt motorist outrage and sometimes claims of market manipulation.

Researchers are using cutting-edge biomedical equipment to examine the tiniest aspects of particles to get a large sense of what climate change and pollution might mean for oceans.

A Hawaii man pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of terroristic threatening after being accused of removing the air-supply regulator from the mouth of an anti-aquarium industry activist while protesters tried to stop him from gathering aquarium fish to sell.

BP PLC might be forced to sell some of its Russian assets to pay billions of dollars in fines for the Gulf Coast oil spill, but analysts said the penalties won't have a major impact on the company's bottom line.

The state of Wyoming this week defended its plan to reduce visibility-limiting haze in national parks and wilderness areas.

A federal court this week greatly narrowed the scope of the lawsuit over text messages sent by U.S. EPA employees.

Divers and scientists are using sonar equipment in an effort to clean up some of the 12,000 crab pots that are lost in Washington's Puget Sound every year, damaging seafloor ecosystems and costing the crab industry $700,000 in lost revenue every year.

One of the world's most endangered seals will get exclusive new health care with the official opening this week of a hospital in Hawaii.

Scientists are using poisoned egg decoys to save an endangered bird species in California.

The National Park Service has proposed a permanent ban on three particular hunting practices in Alaska's national preserves that state wildlife officials had allowed to control numbers of predators like wolves and bears to maximize game species populations.

Environmental groups yesterday asked a federal judge to halt planned logging in areas burned by last summer's Rim fire in California, arguing that dead and dying trees offer important habitat for California spotted owls and a host of other species.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, which has drawn criticism for not being transparent about how it will judge ongoing efforts by states and federal agencies to protect the greater sage grouse, has released an expansive guidance document to help policymakers across the bird's range devise mitigation strategies to help keep it off the endangered list.

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