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Wildlife researchers are using social media, videos and other Web-related elements to engage and educate the public about their studies.

Indian Country was offered a potential economic boon yesterday with the Department of Justice giving the go-ahead to grow and sell marijuana on tribal lands, but many tribes remain leery.

Environmentalists armed with an Endangered Species Act petition are racing to stop a Miami development in order to protect the last known habitat for a Florida beetle once thought to be extinct.

The Grand Canyon yesterday was nearly filled to brim with thick clouds of fog.

Only a few weeks after Interpol made its first-ever public appeal to find environmental criminals, one of its nine most wanted is behind bars.

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. CEO Jim Atchison is stepping down from his post, the company announced yesterday.

A new website allows fishermen and policymakers to track marine species as they shift in a changing climate.

Six in 10 Americans, including half of all Republicans, support regulating carbon dioxide pollution, according to a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and Yale University.

The White House yesterday announced it will dole out $140 million to launch two new manufacturing innovation institutes in a move that will fulfill President Obama's pledge to establish four new hubs this year and eight in total.

If outgoing West Virginia Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall has any concrete plans for his post-congressional future, he's not sharing them with many people.

The Senate this afternoon will vote on a motion by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to strike a major parks, wilderness and land development package from the National Defense Authorization Act, a last-ditch effort among conservatives who oppose bundling new land restrictions in the $585 billion defense bill.

LIMA, Peru -- Environmental activists gather at twilight daily between the pisco sour stand and the plastic Eiffel Tower just outside the hall where U.N. negotiators are working on the next international climate agreement.

One of the sole developers of small modular reactors in the United States yesterday insisted its customer base is large and growing, even though larger competitors say demand is sparse.

Sixth in a series on energy and environment staffers worth watching in 2015.

A one-year ban on new Endangered Species Act protections for sage grouse in this year's $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill is a foreshadowing of partisan wildlife battles to come when Republicans take over the Senate.

How should states be preparing for U.S. EPA's final Clean Power Plan rule? During today's OnPoint, Ken Colburn, a senior associate at the Regulatory Assistance Project and the former director of the Air Resources Division of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, explains why he believes a nontraditional approach to compliance is needed and talks about the steps state regulators and public utility commissioners should be taking to prepare for potential reliability challenges resulting from the rule.

The European Commission has warned four Pacific and Caribbean countries to escalate their fight against illegal fishing or face a ban on European fish imports.

Game rangers killed three poachers last week in Kruger National Park, South Africa's flagship wildlife reserve, as poaching surges before its typical year-end lull.

An accident at a power plant construction site in Ecuador killed 13 workers, officials said yesterday.

South Dakota fisheries officials are looking to modify invasive species management plans after the recent discovery of zebra mussels and quagga mussels in two reservoirs.

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