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The state of Wyoming has released a proposal that wildlife officials say will help stop the spread of a neurological disease that is almost always fatal for deer, elk and moose.

The U.S. commissioner to the International Whaling Commission criticized Japan's decision to restart whale hunts, asserting that the country's research objectives can be met through nonlethal means.

House and Senate lawmakers have added a measure to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank to a long-term highway package set to be released today.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced that the country will ratify the second stage of the Kyoto Protocol, a move that would have limited real-world impact but signals the country's changed attitude at the start of U.N. climate talks in Paris.

The tens of thousands of diplomats, world leaders, activists and journalists attending landmark climate change negotiations in Paris over the next two weeks now have three new dedicated emojis to use on Twitter.

Environmental groups unleashed a new round of digital and television advertisements today aimed at urging congressional support for negotiations at the ongoing U.N. climate conference in Paris.

The 15-year battle by the Burt's Bees co-founder and her son to turn forested mountains in central Maine into a national park appears to be on hold.

The lone Republican on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission told House members today that it may be difficult for some states to sync construction timelines for new gas pipelines and transmission lines with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.

House and Senate Republicans escalated their assault today on President Obama's hopes of brokering a climate deal in Paris later this month.

LE BOURGET, France -- Departing Paris after two days of shoring up support for a new global climate agreement, President Obama said France's decision to host nearly 200 countries just two weeks after deadly terrorist attacks showed a "remarkable display of resolve." And he hit back against those who criticized spending time on climate change at a time when national security threats loom large. "Great nations can handle both," he said.

Japanese authorities are investigating a dozen wooden boats carrying decomposing corpses that were found floating near the country's northwestern coast during the last month.

Danish zookeepers managed to rescue a man who had jumped into a polar bear's enclosure at the Copenhagen Zoo.

Shortly after sailing in an Olympic testing event in Rio de Janeiro in August, sailor Erik Heil was treated at a Berlin hospital for MRSA, a flesh-eating bacteria.

As Beijing endures its worst stretch of air pollution this year, some businesses must hang on while others are thriving.

The Botswana government sold hydraulic fracturing leases in a national park spanning its border with South Africa, unbeknown to park officials in both countries.

Scientists say the discovery of 337 sea whale carcasses along the coast of southern Chile is one of the largest whale strandings ever recorded.

A suburban Oklahoma City police officer yesterday took an unlikely suspect for a ride in his squad car: a miniature donkey.

A new study shows extended exposure to coal emissions is significantly more harmful to the heart than other carbon pollutants.

Some furniture and carpet companies continue to use flame retardant chemicals suspected of causing health problems even though regulations no longer require their use, a report from a chemical safety group said.

Bakken oil regulators said more than 17,000 gallons of brine spilled from an injection well near Watford City, N.D.

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