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Chemical flame retardants are present in the feces of reindeer in remote Arctic regions, scientists have found.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has revoked the fellowship of a California chemistry professor who supervised a lab that had a fatal fire in 2008.

U.S. EPA should withdraw its request to block registration of a controversial herbicide so that farmers can use it by next year's growing season, a coalition of agriculture groups argued in a letter yesterday to Administrator Gina McCarthy.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday in favor of using sludge from sewage treatment plants as agricultural fertilizer, agreeing that use is considered a "normal agricultural operation" under state law.

A conservative watchdog group has filed a lawsuit to gain access to internal communications at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, following in the footsteps of Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas).

The Department of Energy announced today it has produced the first plutonium-238 since the late 1980s.

A New Mexico real estate developer will spend nearly three years behind bars after the Interior Department's inspector general and the IRS uncovered an embezzlement scheme that skimmed $3.575 million from an American Indian federal corporation.

The director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -- known partly for his work on renewable energy -- was named one of the recipients of the National Medal of Science yesterday by the White House.

A Utah company will deliver 15 ounces of human breast milk from Cambodia for around $45, offering mothers an alternative to medical milk banks or buying it online.

A Spanish renewable energy developer is trying to save a proposed utility-scale solar power project in California that has been in the works for nearly a decade but is threatened by the company's pending bankruptcy.

Depressed tax revenues linked to declines in coal production are threatening the budgets of West Virginia and Wyoming, the top two coal-producing states.

South Dakota's Public Utilities Commission won't make TransCanada Corp. refile its application for the Keystone XL pipeline as the company refuses to forsake its controversial project despite President Obama's recent veto.

Weather patterns continue to be unusual as an El Niño-linked system has brought springlike conditions to the Northeast, tornado risk in the South and big snow totals in the Western mountains.

Two National Nuclear Security Administration subcontractors face a slew of charges for allegedly defrauding the federal government of more than $4 million in connection with a nuclear fuel program in South Carolina.

Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corp., one of the world's top gold producers, has joined the dozens of states and interest groups challenging U.S. EPA's new Clean Power Plan.

In their latest attempt to persuade federal judges to halt U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, a coalition of states opposing the climate rule insist they're likely to prevail in court, while accusing the agency's lawyers of "obfuscation" and contradicting their own arguments.

The third killer whale in six months died Monday at a SeaWorld park in San Antonio, heightening the concerns of animal rights groups.

Toward the end of every October, hordes of monarch butterflies return to the oyamel fir trees in the highlands of Mexico, where they are thought of as ancestors' spirits returning just in time for the Day of the Dead.

A man was extracted alive from a pile of debris in a southern Chinese city today, more than 60 hours after an industrial waste pile collapsed and buried dozens of low-rise buildings.

A heavy October rainstorm that pounded the parched hillsides in Grapevine, Calif., offered a window into what precipitation from a strong El Niño might bring to the rest of the state.

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