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Toyota Motor Corp. has teamed up with a Boston-based technology company to make plugging in electric cars a thing of the past.

The six-day flight of a plane powered only by solar energy was cut short over the weekend due to inclement weather.

A partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and Uber Technologies Inc. has apparently soured after the company poached 40 researchers from the university.

The United States' only rare earth miner and processor is on the verge of bankruptcy following a record commodity bubble.

Oklahoma's Osage Nation signed on to become the 20th American Indian tribe working with the U.S. Interior Department to consolidate ownership of reservation land.

Warming temperatures are driving a rise in disease and pests among North American moose, scientists said, leading to a steep decline in their population.

Six of the largest oil and gas companies in Europe have asked the United Nations to let them work on a plan to develop a price for carbon.

An autopsy has revealed that a climber's fatal fall on Yosemite National Park's iconic El Capitan was an accident, leaving friends devastated and confused.

The Grand Canyon National Park has given out fewer rim-to-rim hiking permits than expected this year, but officials said yesterday it is too early to tell if a new permit program is successfully addressing overcrowding concerns.

Decades of quiet hurricane seasons for many East Coast cities have some worried that residents will be unprepared when the next major storm strikes.

Crushing traffic led to an unprecedented temporary closure of Utah's Arches National Park over Memorial Day weekend, prompting park officials to consider making visitors obtain reservations before entering the park.

Drought-stricken California's paltry snowpack is gone.

The House is scheduled to vote on key energy- and environment-related issues this month, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says in a new memo.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking the inspector general of the National Science Foundation to investigate possible violations of federal law regarding a management fee recipient who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying.

Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way to Boston today after staying overnight in a Swiss hospital after breaking his leg during a bicycle accident over the weekend.

Texas is expected to rely on help from the federal government to clean up after recent heavy floods, in the latest example of the state's dependence on Washington, D.C., even as its leaders often assail federal overreach.

President Obama has signed stopgap legislation that will keep federal funding for highway and public transportation programs alive through the end of July, a spokesman confirmed this morning.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham launched his presidential bid today with a vow to join the cause "for a healthy and safe environment" while also promoting himself as a leading voice on national security as he seeks the Republican nomination.