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Retreating Arctic sea ice is leaving polar bears starving, according to a new study released yesterday by the U.S. Geological Survey.

At least 56 crew members of a Russian fishing trawler died early this morning when the vessel sank in the icy waters of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Two Utah counties this week approved recommendations to House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) that seek more wilderness, recreation and energy development on public lands within their borders.

Voluntary measures implemented by states and counties across the West are adequately protecting and restoring millions of acres of greater sage grouse habitat on public and private lands, according to a new report by Western governors that argues against the need to list the bird for federal protection.

Longtime Arkansas Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt, one of only two candidates to defeat future President Bill Clinton in an election, died yesterday at the age of 92.

One of the most renowned leaders of the sustainable farming movement has the ability to reach across party lines in the fight against big business.

The Sierra Club today bolstered its online presence by launching a new website geared toward younger, tech-savvy environmentalists.

Eleven Senate Republicans and a Democrat are asking U.S. EPA to release information on its assessment of bee-harming pesticides in advance of a major report on pollinator health due this spring.

Four Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee asked U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy again yesterday to show how the climate projections her agency uses in its rulemakings have squared with observed warming in recent years.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) offered a defiant rebuke last night to a 14-count federal indictment that includes charges of bribery -- accusing the Justice Department of having been "tricked" into its investigation of his relationship with donor Salomon Melgen -- but subsequently revealed he will temporarily step down from his post as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations panel.

A group of Iowa residents today took to federal court their fight to force U.S. EPA to regulate air pollution rising from animal feeding operations under the Clean Air Act.

Emissions from wastewater recycling at oil and gas drilling sites likely caused a string of high-ozone events in the winter of 2011 in Wyoming's Upper Green River Basin, according to a study released this week.

It's been a tough time for the world's most popular herbicide.

Drought-stricken California will enforce a mandatory water cutback of 25 percent for urban residents because the state's situation is dire, officials said yesterday after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) issued an executive order with numerous water savings edicts.

Japan's ruling party approved a proposal yesterday to make nuclear power 20 percent of the country's energy mix.

Oregon lawmakers are considering a proposal to ban the use of plastic particles known as microbeads.

A bill to raise more than $8 million to clean up Lake Champlain and other Vermont waters has passed the state House and moved to the Senate.

Native Hawaiian groups renewed protests yesterday against the construction of a new telescope on what they consider sacred land atop the Big Island's highest point.

Two environmental organizations are running a new television ad calling on Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to allow new air pollution regulations he has blocked since taking office.

Oil companies used nearly 70 million gallons of water for hydraulic fracturing operations in California last year, officials said.

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