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A Texas hunting club said it will call off its hunt for an endangered black rhino if the Fish and Wildlife Service rejects its application for a permit to bring back parts of the slain animal as trophies.

Filtering water through a mixture of gravel, sand and compost could have a lifesaving effect for salmon in Puget Sound.

The interview question took Nick Dioguardi off-guard: As a North Carolina State Parks ranger, are you ready to handle being the first person on scene at a suicide?

Nine fugitives have made Interpol's first-ever "most wanted" list for environmental crimes.

The shooting of an endangered gray wolf inside Washington state's Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest has sparked a federal criminal investigation by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the offer of a $15,000 reward from a coalition of environmental groups.

The federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement is faulting Alaska regulators for allowing a well-known mining company to operate with what critics call an invalid permit.

More than 180 environmental, Latino and liberal groups today urged House Democratic leaders to support Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) to become the top Democrat of the Natural Resources Committee.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) conceded his re-election bid Saturday, admitting defeat against the unity ticket of former Valdez Mayor Bill Walker and former Juneau Mayor Byron Mallott.

Roughly two dozen activists gathered outside the Capitol Hill home of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) this morning to protest her support for the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

U.S. EPA won't tighten its greenhouse gas rulemakings to meet President Obama's new climate commitments, Administrator Gina McCarthy said today.

Authorities are continuing to investigate a chemical leak at a DuPont Co. plant in La Porte, Texas, after four workers were killed there during the weekend and the plant sent a rotten egg stench that reports said traveled as far as 40 miles.

When much of the country tilted to the right politically on Election Day, it created waves felt even in the bluest state on the left coast.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairwoman has a message for activists urging the agency to measure far-reaching effects of greenhouse gas emissions from new gas export terminals and pipelines: It's not FERC's job.

Not all air pollution is spewed from tailpipes and smokestacks. Sometimes, it falls from the sky. In the stratosphere, ozone filters the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. But stratospheric intrusions funnel ozone toward the ground, where it combines with petrochemical emissions to make breathing painful and stunt plant growth. Those ozone intrusions were long understood to be a problem at higher elevations in the western United States, but only recently did federal scientists in a study of the Las Vegas area learn just how big that problem could be.

The European Union is looking to restrict the amount of energy large televisions and computer monitors can use in an effort to achieve energy efficiency.

Government officials have scaled back the environmental conditions for Australia's Carmichael mine, which would be the largest ever built in the country.

Ugandan police and anti-corruption forces are investigating the disappearance of more than a ton of ivory, which vanished despite being under state wildlife authority lock and key.

Following years of delay, South Korea may soon open a storage facility for low- and medium-level radioactive waste.

Japan announced today that it will resume its Antarctic whale hunt next year but will reduce the number of whales harvested.

Voters in one eastern Montana county approved adding jail space while a neighboring county rejected the expansion of its detention facilities as the region strains to deal with rising crime rates amid the Bakken oil boom.

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