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Scientists warn it is imperative that Madagascar wipe out an invasive, toxic toad in order to save the country's wildlife from peril.

One of Earth's smallest countries is looking to mine in space.

When a fire ignited last year in Utah, rescue crews had to ground their aircraft to avoid collision with a nearby drone, delaying their response time.

Two years after a fumble and mysterious death led to swirls of political intrigue, New York City's mayor did not appear at this year's Groundhog Day ceremony in Staten Island.

Public satisfaction with the federal government has fallen for the third year in a row.

ChemChina's offer to purchase Swiss pesticide company Syngenta Corp. could turn the already massive Chinese chemical corporation into a colossal production.

Since the coal market began to collapse in 2011, some innovators are trying to help miners find life after coal.

German scientists have begun an experiment to test technology for harnessing nuclear fusion.

Nevada's NV Energy has drawn criticism from rooftop solar advocates for recommending that the state limit the grandfathering in of customers who installed arrays before less generous net-metering rates took effect this year.

Los Angeles has hundreds of active oil and gas wells within its 503 square miles, but a legally required position to oversee all of them hasn't been filled full-time for decades.

The United States' first planned coal plant to capture the majority of its carbon dioxide emissions is facing additional delays and now will not be operational until the third quarter of the year, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday.

Michigan regulators are looking into rashes that many Flint residents have reported since the city changed its water source to the Flint River in 2014.

Michigan's largest county is forming an environmental watchdog group after recent controversies.

A second executive at the chemical company that fouled the water supply of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians more than two years ago was sentenced to probation this week.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles filed misdemeanor criminal charges yesterday against a Southern California utility attempting to halt a natural gas leak.

U.S. EPA and the state of Utah have reached an agreement with Salt Lake County to resolve federal violations related to the county's stormwater management program.

The American Farm Bureau Federation this week continued its push to urge the Supreme Court to topple the Obama administration's Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan.

Several years ago, John Hafernik, a biologist at San Francisco State University, discovered a hive of honeybees living in the walls of his house. Instead of killing them, he studied the colony.

The shockingly swift spread of the Zika virus is quickly becoming a public health catastrophe, but it is also the latest example of how humans can negatively affect their environments.

Logging tropical rainforests can encourage black rats to encroach on cleared areas, causing further disturbance to native species, a new study shows.

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