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Prominent paleontologist David Raup died July 9 in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., at the age of 82.

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. yesterday launched an investigation and put an employee accused of spying on an animal-rights group on paid leave.

Denali National Park and Preserve officials are urging visitors not to post the exact GPS locations of routes or campsites to ensure what is supposed to be untrammeled Alaska wilderness remains as intended.

With no hope of securing funding from Congress for new Arctic icebreakers, Alaskan lawmakers and the U.S. Coast Guard are considering other ways to acquire the crucial ships.

Five Arctic nations -- including the United States and Russia -- signed an agreement today to prevent commercial fishing in the high seas of the central Arctic Ocean.

Louisiana's congressional delegation has worked to intervene on behalf of a New Orleans company that has failed to stop a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, records show.

Former Vice President Al Gore offered rare criticism of President Obama in an interview published today, calling the president's approval of Royal Dutch Shell PLC's exploratory well in the Arctic Ocean "insane."

Senate Republicans say the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has failed to provide cost justification for its proposed new safety regulations.

The Senate Democrat leading transportation negotiations said today that she supports selling off Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil to help fund an extension of highway programs.

The full Senate Appropriations Committee voted 28-2 this morning to approve a $20.51 billion fiscal 2016 spending bill for the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and related agencies.

Environmental justice advocates are suing U.S. EPA for failing to act on civil rights complaints that have idled for more than a decade.

California regulators eased enforcement of their drought conservation rules yesterday in response to a successful legal challenge by water users.

The House today approved GOP lawmakers' latest relief measure for parched California, although most everyone agrees the bill is a long way from becoming law.

The Obama administration this afternoon proposed a long-awaited rule that promises to protect more than 6,000 miles of streams around the country over two decades from the impacts of both surface and underground coal mining.

Yesterday, the Department of the Interior released regulations that seek to protect streams from coal mining. The response was immediate and contentious. On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Manuel Quiñones explains who will face the greatest impacts from the rule's implementation and previews the steps Congress may take to stop the Obama administration from moving forward with these regulations.

Australian officials are watching for a potential oil spill in the area of the Great Barrier Reef, despite finding little evidence of a reported half-mile-long slick off the coast of northern Queensland.

A New Jersey artist recently learned that his drawing of an Alaska brown bear once appeared on license plates across the Last Frontier State and that the image created controversy that was recently revived 34 years later.

Ohio EPA has issued new guidelines for how to warn residents if toxins from algae contaminate drinking water.

South Dakota will decide on whether to lift state endangered species protections for bald eagles at the upcoming August meeting of the state Game, Fish and Parks Commission.

U.S. EPA accused truck maker Navistar International Corp. of selling 7,750 diesel engines in violation of emissions standards in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

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