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The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is set to announce this week whether it will place the Great Barrier Reef on a list of endangered World Heritage sites, a move the Australian government is hoping to avoid.

Lions will return to Rwanda for the first time in 15 years after seven are flown from South Africa today.

New Castle County officials are recoiling after Delaware lawmakers signaled they want the state to take over the county's review and permitting authority of a $170 million chemical plant expansion.

California will set up a new independent panel to oversee the Department of Toxic Substances Control after officials found a series of problems with how the agency regulates hazardous waste in the state.

The ongoing drought in California is worsening air quality in the state, forcing many residents with health problems to stay inside.

Illegal marijuana growers in Northern California use 430 million liters of water per square kilometer of outdoor marijuana crop during a typical growing season, according to a study published in Bioscience this week.

Declining underground water levels could make it more difficult to monitor radioactive contamination below an eastern Idaho nuclear facility, scientists said.

The founder and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council will leave the organization at the end of 2016, USGBC announced yesterday.

The Smithsonian Institution will implement stricter rules governing conflicts of interests for its researchers, it announced Friday.

Climate change is slated for the top of the agenda as President Obama meets with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the White House.

The Forest Service has won a lawsuit brought by a Helena, Wyo., man who said he suffered brain damage after an agency employee used a Taser on him in 2010.

Virginia has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with Duke Energy Corp. over the company's 2014 coal ash spill, which entered the state via the Dan River from neighboring North Carolina.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to hear an appeal from former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) of his conviction on public corruption, money laundering and other charges.

A frigid winter in northeast Ohio took a toll on migratory birds, an annual spring survey has found.

Officials are considering closing a popular bison hunting area in an effort to encourage the animals to roam more widely.

Simplifying the taxonomy of tiger subspecies could save them from extinction, according to researchers.

A recent spate of shark attacks in the Carolinas this summer has experts scratching their heads.

The Supreme Court today agreed to resolve Mississippi's long-running claims that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater.

Two former congressional staffers now at Cassidy and Associates Inc. have signed up to lobby for RailTerm, a Canadian firm that specializes in outsourcing dispatching and other railroad services, according to a newly filed registration with Congress.

The White House and Department of Transportation would have to step up their efforts to research and promote the use of self-driving cars and other emerging technologies, under legislation introduced late last week by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.).

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