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Zoos and aquariums have found an old-school way -- bartering -- to get around the Endangered Species Act, which doesn't allow buying or selling of endangered animals without a permit.

Newly evolved bird species could be better equipped to survive ecosystem changes when forested land is cleared for agriculture, according to a new study.

Interior Department officials expressed optimism this week over an 11-state effort to protect the greater sage grouse, as federal and state agencies coordinate a range of mitigation strategies aimed at keeping the chickenlike bird off the endangered list.

Compromise amid Washington's seemingly perpetual partisan gridlock is almost impossible. For two freshman U.S. senators who spent their August recess trapped on a remote island, it was necessity.

Lawmakers from states plagued by harmful algae blooms have introduced another bipartisan measure aimed at tackling the problem -- this time by collecting more information on its causes.

Utah's congressional delegation is once again asking President Obama to ignore calls from elected leaders outside the state that have urged him to use his executive authority to designate the area around Canyonlands National Park as a national monument.

Energy policy has divided lawmakers in Congress along party lines, but outside of the Beltway, both right- and left-leaning states are pursuing clean power projects in the absence of action from the federal government, a new report shows.

Members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation are asking Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to investigate allegations that the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement is aiming to use secret enforcement mechanisms.

When President Obama joins other national leaders in New York City later this month to talk climate change, he is expected to focus on what the U.S. is already doing rather than offer any major new commitments.

U.S. EPA this week gave final approval to an Australian company's project to harness the energy of underground coal resources without having to mine them.

A Colorado federal judge rejected Obama administration approvals yesterday for an Arch Coal Inc. mine expansion project in a roadless area of the Gunnison National Forest.

There's a critical hole in the application for the now-abandoned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project in Nevada.

A former high-ranking Bureau of Land Management official for more than eight months claimed sick leave and regular work hours to his supervisor in Springfield, Va., but his bank records show he was out golfing and traveling to Las Vegas, to Arizona and around Montana, according to a federal indictment charging him and another former official with scheming to defraud the federal government.

Is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management acting illegally on the approval of new offshore lease sales? During today's OnPoint, Michael Livermore, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a senior adviser at the Institute for Policy Integrity, discusses his recent argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on a case pertaining to the economic analysis used by the Interior Department in its sales of new leases.

Singapore's National Environment Agency reported unhealthy levels of air pollution today as winds blew in smoke from Indonesian forest fires.

Out of smog-choked Chinese cities have come an array of offbeat ideas to clear the air.

The Tanzania government is expanding Serengeti National Park in order to provide much-needed drinking water to wildlife, but the plan is likely to spark protests as it will displace about 8,000 people.

So-called dead zones have been steadily increasing for decades in Wisconsin's Green Bay despite stricter pollution regulations instituted by 1972's Clean Water Act.

Minority communities are exposed to higher levels of air pollution than predominantly white communities, according to the results of a multi-state study of race and pollution.

Tony Hayward has his life back as the CEO of Genel Energy PLC, where he keeps a minimalist office with two paintings by his idol, Bob Dylan, and races in his new boat, called Black Fun.

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