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Amid growing concern over the number of farming assets being sold offshore, the Australian government said today that it will create a register of foreign ownership of water rights.

Two months after issuing Beijing's first "red alert" for air pollution, Chinese authorities are taking several steps to control the city's severe air pollution and its bad perception.

To tackle China's coal supply glut, the government said it will shutter more than 1,000 mines this year, equating to a production capacity loss of 60 million metric tons (66 million tons).

An emu eluded police in a northern Mississippi county for days before being caught.

Utah state lawmakers last week pushed a resolution through the House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee that would push the Bureau of Land Management to restore the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway to safe high-speed racing conditions.

In Crystal City, Texas, murky and strange smelling water filled residents' water lines with no warning last week.

A Florida lands bill that would give state regulators the power to rewrite how parks are preserved and managed cleared its final committee in the House last week, after its sponsor wiped away provisions environmentalists feared would erode its conservation programs.

The state of Michigan and city of Flint are falling behind in meeting the requirements of a U.S. EPA emergency order last month to resolve the ongoing water crisis in the city, a top agency official said.

Ten years ago, long before a lead-contamination crisis came to light in Flint, Mich., the state of Rhode Island won a massive lawsuit against the paint industry seeking money to clean up lead paint in its homes.

Curious about whether trees soak up air pollution, two Forest Service researchers set out in 2012 to monitor an entire city's pollution levels, and while they collected data seeking to answer their original question, the two also stumbled upon something totally unrelated.

Despite scientists' lament that up to 150 species go extinct every day, researchers currently are debating the idea of intentionally eliminating one species -- the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Long-term exposure to air pollution may make you fat.

Wind turbine blades continue to grow -- turbines are now more than 200 feet tall -- and officials are having trouble transporting equipment to remote locations in Texas and other windy Western states.

U.S. EPA has called on the German carmaker Volkswagen AG to manufacture electric vehicles in the United States as a way to compensate for its rigging of emission tests on its diesel cars.

Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased 0.9 percent between 2013 and 2014, according to a draft U.S. EPA inventory published today.

DuPont has settled the second of two test lawsuits against the company over C8 contamination in the Ohio River Valley.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday denied a state petition for review regarding a Brazos River case in a move that has widespread implications for future water battles in the parched state and is viewed as a victory for farmers, ranchers and long-standing water rights holders.

Environmental groups today are threatening to sue the Obama administration if it does not force West Virginia to stop allowing coal mining companies to guarantee their own cleanup costs.

States and green groups today in federal court blasted what they called a "one-size-fits-all" approach to analyzing nuclear waste storage as they urged the judges to reject a government regulation.

Douglas Inman, a renowned coastal scientist, died at age 95 on Feb. 11 in San Diego.

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