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Climbing a crane with an inflatable orca and setting off fireworks has "Jackass" reality television star Steve-O facing five criminal counts after his protest against SeaWorld's treatment of killer whales.

A former DuPont Co. employee who worked at a Houston-area chemical plant where four workers were killed last year has sued the company, alleging she was terminated after reporting safety violations.

Industry groups and environmentalists alike are filing grievances against U.S. EPA's rule on the disposal of coal combustion waste.

America's only Sumatran rhinoceros will go to Indonesia to mate, the Ohio zoo that bred the endangered species said yesterday.

Hunters have been making headlines by catching massive alligators, but biologists are wary of the impact of removing these dominant beasts from the environment.

The smaller of the newborn giant panda twins at the Smithsonian's National Zoo is getting far less of his mother's attention, raising concerns among zoo staff.

Scientists have worked hard to conserve Florida's mangrove trees, but an exotic mangrove species spreading from a famed botanical garden shows the risks gardens represent to their surrounding environments.

More than 52 acres of Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve was degraded by deforestation and illegal logging last year, hastening the species's decline, scientists said yesterday.

Molycorp Inc., the country's only rare earth elements company, announced this morning that it would stop production at its flagship Mountain Pass, Calif., facility.

Two watchdog groups today announced a six-figure advertising campaign to prod the Bureau of Land Management to crack down on the flaring of natural gas from public lands.

North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) acknowledged yesterday that she is weighing a bid to succeed retiring Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R), a decision that could trigger a competitive special election for the Peace Garden State Senate seat.

The Obama administration must take steps in the coming months to ensure that the unprecedented growth of renewable energy development on public lands continues, according to a report released today by the Center for American Progress.

Yanking a salmon out of the Columbia River, fishermen look for a tiny indicator of whether the catch is a keeper.

A coalition of environmental groups is planning to sue U.S. EPA over what they consider to be lax regulation of oil and gas drilling waste.

If the past is prologue, then environmentalists may want to keep watch on Vice President Joe Biden's potential presidential candidacy: Biden recently declared climate change policy would be the "single most important thing" the Obama administration would address in its two terms, suggesting it could also be at the center of a hypothetical campaign platform.

Solyndra Inc. executives repeatedly provided "false and misleading" information to the Department of Energy that hid shaky financial foundations that led to the company's bankruptcy and sparked a political uproar over the loss of $535 million in taxpayer money, the DOE inspector general found in a four-year investigation.

Five pedestrians were swallowed up by a sudden sinkhole Saturday on a sidewalk in a northeastern Chinese city.

China's top prosecutors have detained 10 officials and port executives as well as a senior Transport Ministry official on suspicion of neglect of duty and abuse of power in the wake of the Tianjin chemical warehouse explosions that have killed at least 139 people.

A private company's deal with the state of Indiana to develop property on public land near Lake Michigan's famed dunes is concerning activists.

The first meeting of a local group to take place since the Gold King mine blowout was dominated by discussion of whether the mine should be designated as a Superfund site.

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