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Ecologists are warning that ecotourists could actually be making the animals they pay to see more vulnerable to predators.

The 5,100 members of Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin can now hunt deer at night with guns from November to January.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is using a loophole to allow Hawaiian fishermen to catch more of a prized tuna species, despite warnings that they are contributing to overfishing.

The ongoing development of the Bakken oil shale is displacing scores of sensitive grassland birds from northern North Dakota, according to a new federal study that recommends policymakers implement a series of substantive development changes.

The Sierra Club launched an ad campaign today thanking Senate Democrats who backed an energy package this fall aimed at boosting clean energy development.

Climate security experts who study the ways in which global warming can exacerbate armed conflict say they were heartened by Democratic candidates' connecting the dots between the two issues during Tuesday night's presidential debate on CNN.

Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today cracked jokes and bid farewell to Philip Moeller, a Republican commissioner who's leaving the agency at the end of the month with no replacement in sight.

A watchdog group for public employees is opposing President Obama's pick for inspector general at the Department of the Interior.

The Treasury Department today put Congress on notice that the lawmakers will need to raise the debt ceiling by Nov. 3 -- two days earlier than it had previously warned -- to avoid default.

News that Senate Republican leaders are discussing the possibility of reforming the chamber's rules may be more an effort to appease conservative concerns than to truly reform the institution.

ON THE POTOMAC RIVER IN CHARLES COUNTY, Md. -- Donald Shomette first saw the "ghost fleet" six decades ago, when his father brought him and his brother on a camping trip to Mallows Bay.

Will energy companies continue to protect habitat for a prairie grouse in the absence of government regulations?

Backers of a major energy conservation rule -- including one of its biggest champions -- are nervous about the regulation's fate in the wake of Supreme Court arguments on the issue.

The White House today announced that U.S. EPA would expand upon an already controversial set of regulations for heat-trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigeration and air conditioning.

Following the Supreme Court's hearing of oral arguments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's demand response rule this week, what's next for the regulation? On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Hannah Northey discusses the impact of yesterday's hearing on the commission and future rulemakings.

A 9-month-old lion cub was dissected yesterday by a Danish zoo before an audience of children, an act that drew ire on social media.

Norway is on the leading edge of encouraging its citizens to adopt electric vehicles, and policymakers worldwide are taking notice.

The Zimbabwean hunting guide accused of failing to stop the killing of Cecil the lion maintained his innocence yesterday, holding back tears as he said his family and business have been "destroyed" by the prosecution and cancellation of his hunting license.

Musk oxen stranded on ice floes in the Bering Sea are now fair game for hunters.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is hoping to broker a deal with senior citizens to return the duck that once called their Bay Area assisted-living facility home.

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