environment and nature

SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Outside of an aging mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, a copper company has burrowed a shaft 1.3 miles into the high...

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) — Billboards and TV commercials, living room visits, guess-your-water-use booths, and awards for water stinginess ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Polar bears are at risk of dying off if humans don't reverse the trend of global warming, a blunt U.S. government report file...

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with r...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Water use in drought-stricken California plunged by record levels in May, and Gov. Jerry Brown's administration cited that a...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Eight people are in custody in Tunisia, suspected of having direct links to a deadly beach attack that killed 38 people, but fou...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and five Gulf states announced a record $18.7 billion settlement Thursday that resolves years of legal fighting over the environ...

New flames ignited in drought-stricken Washington state, not far from where a destructive wildfire reduced homes to rubble. Crews also are battling bl...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Gamal Takaway has turned up the hustle, to no avail. The popular waiter who goes by the nickname Jimmy often steps out into the ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The young college student that murdered 38 tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort was in a jihadi training camp in western Libya ...

WAVES, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a 17-year-old boy is the latest victim of a shark attack off North Carolina's coast, the second attack in as many day...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Conservationists hail it as a possible game-changer in the struggle to curb the slaughter of elephants: an unexpected pledge by a ...

Wildfires are chewing through parched parts of the West, including a resurgent blaze in California that forced residents of some desert communities to...

BAHIA DE COHANA, Bolivia (AP) — Gulls swept down to feast on hundreds of dead and dying giant frogs floating in the rancid waters along a southeastern...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The devastating heat wave that struck southern Pakistan last weekend is slowly subsiding but the toll was still climbing Thur...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Eight cruise ship passengers and their pilot died on a sightseeing excursion in Alaska when their small plane crashed in remo...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters investigating a reported petroleum stench at a California beach last month didn't take long to find a spill — oil was ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — When natural gas was discovered a few years ago off the shores of resource-poor Israel, it was heralded as nothing short of a miracle...

Wildfires are charging through several dry Western states, including a blaze in California that showed new life after burning for a week and forced so...