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A major federal study on the future of the lower Mississippi River paused last year due to lack of funding could be back on track again after Congress appropriated another $5 million for the work, the ...

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Florida has banned "geoengineering," or weather modification, in response to conspiracy theories about "chemtrails." Scientists explain that the white streaks behind jets, called contrails, are ice ...

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear arms control, ...

The Trump administration is expected to repeal a 2009 ruling that allows the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas pollution. This "endangerment finding" established the legal basis for ...

Donald Trump has been on a vendetta against “windmills” — and, really, any form of clean energy — for many years. He has close ties to the fossil fuel industry, essentially telling them he’d do ...

White House officials called off a meeting Thursday where a panel appointed by President Donald Trump was slated to outline how to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to three ...

A vision for biodiversity in Bermuda has been set out, including a review of environmental legislation. The sweeping document has won praise from Noelle Young, sustainability activist and Bermuda ...

South Africa’s Fisheries, Forestry and Environment Minister Dion George looks likely to lose his post after his party, the Democratic Alliance, proposed that he be replaced by its spokesman, Willie ...