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The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission failed to reach an agreement protecting bluefin tuna today during its meeting in Japan.

Unarmed researchers are unable to scare away five hungry polar bears trapping them inside a remote Russian outpost, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature in Russia.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday appointed a new point man to develop a plan for the growing environmental crisis at the Salton Sea.

The Department of Agriculture plans to update its regulations for captive marine mammals, recently resubmitting a long-awaited rule to the White House for review.

The White House's Office of Management and Budget is reviewing a controversial proposal from the Fish and Wildlife Service to update the agency's nearly-five-decade-old oil and gas regulations.

Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) announced today that he will not seek an eighth term, setting up a competitive battle as Democrats will look to pick up his suburban St. Paul-based seat.

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is re-examining U.S. EPA's plans to limit development of a massive copper and gold mine in southwestern Alaska.

California lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday that would require the state's public pension funds to sell off their coal-mining-related investments.

Environmental and public interest groups today launched what they called a "major new advertising campaign" in large U.S. cities meant to draw attention to impacts of smog on minority communities.

President Obama concluded his historic three-day visit to Alaska yesterday with a speech in the Native village of Kotzebue, where he promised to increase federal assistance to rural communities for renewable energy development and sewer and water projects.

PAHRUMP, Nev. -- The grinding national battle over the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain gets personal for this economically ailing desert town within an hour's drive of the mountain. The Obama administration's decision to scrap the project has hit Pahrump in the wallet, spurring a campaign by some local officials to get the repository back on track. "This would turn us around," Nye County Commissioner Dan Schinhofen said. "This would be huge for us."

The wind energy industry announced a plan today aimed at reducing by a third the number of bats killed by turbines.

Last year, a special agent in U.S. EPA's inspector general office told House lawmakers she had been "assaulted" and "intimidated" by an agency employee during a tense encounter in late 2013.

A judge's decision Tuesday to strip federal protections from a prairie grouse that roams the southern Great Plains has thrown into question how the government considers voluntary conservation measures when issuing listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act.

A Florida elementary school was on lockdown yesterday as wildlife officials searched the campus for an escaped king cobra.

Oil and gas regulators repeatedly warned aides to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) in 2011 that orders to override safeguards to grant oil industry permits would violate state and federal law, a former official said.

Scientists have pinpointed why the explosive TNT is so toxic to plants.

Two boats collided in the Mississippi River on Wednesday, causing an oil spill that closed part of the waterway.

Leon Gorman, who turned his grandfather's store into the billion-dollar global outdoor retailer L.L. Bean, has died.

A campaign by the American Egg Board to discredit Just Mayo, an imitation mayonnaise product that contains no eggs, is backfiring after records were disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act.

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