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Life on the water in New England is tricky business these days, with freezing temperatures making navigating icy harbors "a horror show."

Studies of bones found at a coastal site in Alaska show that as sea levels rise, so do levels of mercury in the food chain -- which could have alarming implications for the future as climate change threatens to raise the oceans again.

U.S. EPA finalized a rule last night that will give domestic refrigerator and air conditioning manufacturers more climate- and ozone-friendly chemicals to choose from when producing their products.

The Supreme Court today declined to review a Native American tribe's decades-old claim to a tract of land in upstate New York.

Google has set up a zip wire across the Amazon rainforest to capture images of the remote landscape.

The hustle and bustle of urban areas is pushing wildlife and some people toward peace and quiet, according to a National Park Service study of 10 years of noise pollution at some 1,000 sites across the country.

A Chinese survey found wild giant panda populations have grown by nearly 20 percent in the last decade, according to state-run media.

Environmental groups in Florida are pushing lawmakers to buy a plot of land they say is crucial for storing water from Lake Okeechobee.

Mexico plans to ban gill nets across 5,000 miles of the Gulf of California, in a last-minute effort to save a population of porpoises that could otherwise become extinct within four years.

Greater sage grouse and oil and natural gas development can successfully coexist in the bird's sensitive habitat, according to a new study that also emphasizes the animals fare better when drilling activity is far away.

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has signed up to lobby for Fuels America, a pro-biofuel coalition.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) plans to file cloture tomorrow on the chamber's effort to override President Obama's veto of legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed last week to hear the first case to challenge U.S. EPA's role in the massive loss of bees in the last decade.

Gogebic Taconite LLC is blaming federal oversight of wetlands, including U.S. EPA scrutiny of the proposed Pebble mine in Alaska, for putting off the development of open pit iron mining in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior.

Farmers and ranchers campaigned for years to persuade the Fish and Wildlife Service to drop endangered species protection for a tiny fish found in the streams of northeastern California and southern Oregon.

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D), the longest-serving woman in congressional history and the chamber's top Democratic appropriator, announced today she will not seek a sixth term in 2016 -- asserting she would rather be "raising hell" than raising campaign cash over the next two years.

What are the economic impacts of U.S. EPA's proposed ozone rule revision? During today's OnPoint, Greg Bertelsen, director of energy and resources policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, discusses his organization's latest study pointing to bad economic news for the manufacturing sector and states if EPA moves forward with its proposed revised numbers. NAM's report has received criticism for the methodology used in its assessment, and Bertelsen responds to the pushback.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 91st birthday Saturday with a million-dollar soiree featuring baby elephant on the menu.

The Canadian government is pressuring First Nations leaders to reduce "uncertainty and investment risk" for oil, mining and timber companies amid growing grass-roots opposition among indigenous groups, according to a trove of documents obtained through a public records request.

China appointed a new environment minister last week amid growing public anger over environmental conditions after three decades of unrestrained growth.

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