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In an effort to protect a critically endangered porpoise, the Mexican government is deploying unmanned drones to combat illegal fishing.

A worker at Japan's shuttered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died early this morning after falling into a water storage tank.

Improving water quality along the Great Barrier Reef would cost an estimated $1.7 billion over the next few years, according to a new report by six regional natural resource management teams in Australia.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) was hospitalized yesterday after falling from a horse during a family vacation to Africa.

For a fifth straight year, Idaho lawmakers struck down Ilah Hickman's bill to make the Idaho giant salamander the state's official amphibian, but the now-14-year-old is undeterred.

New pollution controls on farming and development will be key to Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin's (D) plan to increase water quality in Lake Champlain.

A federal plan to curtail air pollution in Texas that crosses state lines received support last week from Oklahomans attending a public hearing about the proposal.

An oil spill from a ruptured pipeline has contaminated the water supply of a Montana town, U.S. EPA said yesterday, prompting Gov. Steve Bullock (D) to declare a state of emergency in the area.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority saw ridership decline by 4 percent in the second half of last year, but experts say falling gas prices won't dent public transportation usage as much as feared.

The co-founder of Tesla Motors Inc. is hoping to develop electric garbage trucks.

Scientists are using surgery and breeding techniques at a federal research center in Nebraska to engineer ideal animals for the meat industry, but the advances sometimes come at a cost to their welfare.

The biofuel industry is still going strong despite the delay of a federal mandate requiring ethanol and biodiesel to be part of the nation's fuel supply, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said yesterday.

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer's political action committee will launch a television ad attacking climate change skeptics during the State of the Union address tonight.

U.S. EPA boss Gina McCarthy wants to bring attention to some rarely mentioned potential victims of climate change: snowboarding, skiing and other winter sports.

A federal appeals court today rejected a bid by animal advocates to stop the National Park Service from killing deer in Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek Park.

The Supreme Court agreed today to allow a lawsuit by military veterans seeking damages from contractors for exposure to burn pits and other hazardous conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan to move forward.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife rejuvenated lynx monitoring yesterday by launching a 10-year "occupancy study."

Florida officials scored a rare victory for the region's coral reefs with the discovery of more than 38 acres of an important coral species farther north than expected.

The northern long-eared bat may put a pipeline project in jeopardy if the federal government designates the species as endangered.

The Bureau of Land Management today announced plans to cut, chop and burn native juniper trees across 1.5 million acres of southwest Idaho in hopes of beating back a major threat to the greater sage grouse.

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