A federal rule will require oceangoing freighters entering American waters to install onboard treatment systems to filter and disinfect their ballast water.
A skin fungus in frogs is threatening a species with extinction, but Chinese-American leaders oppose a proposed import ban that could affect their traditional diets.
The average "green" score for council members in 2010-11 was 90, up from 45 five years earlier.
Proposed legislation offers the Navajo and Hopi the service of having water piped into their homes but comes with the caveat that they hand over their rights to the waters of the Little Colorado River.
A report from the World Bank recommends aggressive prosecutions of the masterminds behind illegal logging networks and the corrupt officials who make their activities possible.
Six months after the expiration of a program that backed $16 billion in loans, the Energy Department is subsidizing an existing loan guarantee program to encourage more applications.
A reconstruction of a fire that began with a controlled burn suggests that firefighters failed to ask for a spot weather forecast, that radio communications were inadequate, and that dispatchers were kept in the dark on the gravity of the blaze.
Fossils of a previously unrecognized dinosaur found in China show that it is the largest known feathered animal, living or extinct, scientists report.
A composting project in Ithaca, N.Y., turned 12 tons of pet waste into just two truckloads of fertilizer that will make its way back to a dog park.
The leak, off the coast of Scotland, is losing the French company $1.5 million a day in earnings and generating another $1 million a day in costs.
