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Much is riding on the climate change talks that kick off Monday in Paris. After years of planning and months of preliminary talks, negotiators will converge on the City of Light for a two-week summit they hope will produce a deal on emissions, financial assistance to poor countries and a plan for future action. If they don't reach a deal, the consequences could be serious.

Increasing glacier melt on Mount Everest is forming large lakes that could flood settlements downslope, according to a British scientific expedition.

A police commissioner was killed last week during the latest violent clashes over Togo's plan to evict thousands of settlers living in a national park.

Japan's Fisheries Agency said it plans to renew its research hunt for whales in the Antarctic, which was halted after an international court ruling deemed the killing of whales not justified for its research.

A judge lifted South Africa's ban on domestic rhinoceros horn trading last week, siding with two game farmers who argued the 2009 prohibition was actually fueling -- not curbing -- poaching.

Future road construction projects in Africa will play a big role in determining to what extent habitat and native landscapes survive.

A Canadian indigenous leader has filed a class-action lawsuit against three coal companies after a tailings pond accident in western Alberta contaminated the Athabasca River.

President Obama is working on an executive order to strengthen the Senior Executive Service by increasing compensation, streamlining the hiring process and giving a greater variety of assignments, an order that could improve work conditions for 7,000 top-level civil servants.

Republican members of Congress are trying to keep a close eye on federal agencies as political appointees "burrow in" to try to stay at agencies as career employees after the current administration leaves office.

John Knauss, a well-known oceanographer who once headed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, died recently at his home in Rhode Island.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog is raising questions over bonus money being awarded to a new hire.

A California judge is pushing the state's Public Utilities Commission to release emails that could prove that Gov. Jerry Brown (D) had a hidden hand in the multibillion-dollar deal to shut down the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

Approximately 1,200 acres of Garrett Rajkovich's parched almond grove in western Fresno County will most likely never be farmed again.

California's ongoing drought has dried much of the state's marshes and rice fields used by waterfowl hunters, and officials are worried about the impact that could have on rural economies and habitat conservation programs.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Mexican states' appeal in a lawsuit seeking to recover cash the states say they lost as a result of the 2010 BP PLC Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Three states are seeking to join a legal challenge to U.S. EPA's new ozone standard, contending that happenstances of geography could unfairly push them out of compliance.

A federal appeals court is moving to block Murray Energy Corp.'s planned deposition of U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in ongoing litigation by the company against the agency.

Two brothers out hunting in Canada managed to rescue a bald eagle from a fur trap and snap a selfie with the bird of prey in the process.

Outdoorsman Chris Meyer and his young son, Kenny, manage to summit a pathless Arizona mountain every year, but their attempt to name the unnamed peak faces an arduous bureaucratic trek.

Wildlife officials will reintroduce weasel-like predators called fishers into two Washington state national parks and a national forest in coming weeks to restore the state-listed endangered species to its former range.

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