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The University of Maine is opening a first-of-its-kind "miniature ocean" today that can demonstrate how everything from floating wind turbines to coastal cities may react to "some of the worst storms possible anywhere on Earth."

Brazil's drought is prompting residents to leave São Paulo as reservoirs dwindle.

California's fractured system of regulating water usage is producing sharp divides in enforcement between rich and working-class areas.

An industry group is asking the Supreme Court to reject a lower court's interpretation of a major ruling surrounding U.S. EPA's permitting rules for greenhouse gases.

A genetically engineered moth designed to limit the need for pesticides is generating concerns from organic farmers and food safety groups.

More than half of the tree species in South America's sprawling Amazon region may be at risk for extinction due to ongoing deforestation for farming, ranching and other human-related purposes, researchers say.

A female northern white rhino had to be euthanized yesterday, reducing the worldwide population of the species to three animals.

The Food and Drug Administration's new standards on labeling food with or without genetically altered plant ingredients stand to add new ambiguity to the public debate over the technology.

A Texas company's proposal to search for oil deposits across a 110-square-mile section of Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve is advancing through the federal environmental review process, much to the chagrin of environmentalists who say the project would cause permanent damage.

Forest Service employees are slightly less satisfied with their agency than their fellow federal employees and are less likely to recommend it as a good place to work, according to a survey by the Office of Personnel Management obtained by Greenwire.

A panel of scientists gave failing grades to most of the Republican presidential candidates' climate science views.

Green groups are launching ad campaigns today targeting senators who voted to block the Obama administration's carbon rules for power plants.

Fewer Americans hold a favorable view of U.S. EPA than two years ago, according to polling released today.

The House's top watchdogs are questioning inspectors general from across the government on whether agencies are blocking their probes.

Just how unpopular is the U.S. EPA measure to clarify which waters fall under the protection of the Clean Water Act among House lawmakers? According to Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), it's on par with terrorism.

Louisiana will swear in its first Democratic governor in nearly a decade after state House Minority Leader John Bel Edwards trumped Republican Sen. David Vitter in a runoff election Saturday -- an upset victory that has the state's oil and gas industry preparing for potential legislative battles.

The Bureau of Land Management wants coal companies to say whether they still plan to pursue long-pending mining leases amid sustained weak market conditions, according to documents obtained by Greenwire.

The Interior Department's acting inspector general today told Capitol Hill that her office's investigative activities resulted in 242 months of jail time, $5.6 million in criminal penalties and $1.3 million in civil settlements and recoveries over the past six months.

U.S. EPA is standing by its rule to cut mercury from power plants, saying that consideration of compliance costs makes no difference to its original decision to impose emissions standards on airborne releases of the toxic metal and other hazardous substances.

An Alaskan moose hunter is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will let him bring his hovercraft out of retirement. John Sturgeon, who turned 70 this month, is at the heart of an obscure legal battle over whether he can use his hovercraft to hunt along Yukon River tributaries within a national preserve. In a move that stunned legal experts and Sturgeon himself, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear his appeal. "If I win my court case, I'll be back there with my hovercraft," the Anchorage resident said. "We'll be looking for moose again."

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