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Smaller grizzly bears dominate larger polar bears when it comes to foraging for bone scraps, according to a study published by Fish and Wildlife Service scientists.

A pair of whales that washed up dead on Dutch shores recently choked to death with fish clogging their blowholes, according to a study.

Texas' largest power company will pay to clean up abandoned uranium mines if federal prosecutors drop their objections to one of the biggest bankruptcies in American history, according to a settlement filed late Tuesday.

Utah pushed ahead this week on plans to construct its Lake Powell pipeline, a billion-dollar project that could divert more than 86,000 acre-feet of water from the Colorado River to cities in the state's southern end.

European utilities have had a hard time adapting to a world with more renewable energy.

Google is moving to purchase 842 more megawatts of clean energy capacity worldwide to bring its total renewable energy supply to 2 gigawatts.

LE BOURGET, France -- You might think climate change negotiations have nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You'd be wrong. In this process, anything and everything can come into play -- and often does.

Messages urging climate action may not be effective, and strategies urging policymakers to do little to prevent climate change have more impact, according to new research.

President George H.W. Bush's White House was eager to insert the United States into the global debate on climate change, newly released memos show.

The head of a trade organization representing manufacturers of fragrance chemicals will leave the group early next year.

Holly Bamford, a top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will move over to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation next year to take on a newly created position.

A former senior official at U.S. EPA and the Department of Energy is now lobbying for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

The conference report for the long-term surface transportation reauthorization bill includes a provision that would allow utilities to use tax-exempt public bonds to rebuild water and sewer systems.

Legislation offered by House Republican members would strip U.S. EPA and other federal agencies of their firearms.

LE BOURGET, France -- The always-engaging and often-provocative Yvo de Boer, former head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), took a few moments to reflect on his reign over the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, and how the Paris summit differs.

An ambitious Interior Department program established six years ago to coordinate conservation efforts across federal, state, tribal and private lands is performing as it was designed, achieving "numerous objectives and milestones" in a short period of time, according to a new congressionally mandated analysis of the program.

A key House appropriator today said discussions continue over a rider targeting the Waters of the U.S. rule, as both parties continue to press their priorities for an omnibus spending bill.

The House passed the Energy and Commerce Committee's broad energy legislation this morning, sending the Senate a bill aimed at modernizing the electric grid and speeding natural gas exports.

Following days of debate on the merits and impacts of U.S. EPA's final renewable fuel standard volume obligations for 2014 through 2016, what is next for the legal and legislative challenges to the rule? On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Tiffany Stecker discusses the legal arguments facing the agency and explains how the final 2014-2016 numbers could preview the agency's next steps on the rule.

India has announced that it will ban trucks and buses that are more than 15 years old as its capital, Delhi, and other cities have seen choking pollution levels.

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