environment and nature

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The eight suspected poachers stood under a tree, apparently unaware they were being tracked by 10 rangers from Congo's Garamba Nat...

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — More than 100 world leaders will attend the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Paris, including Russian President Vladimir ...

PARIS (AP) — France will reinstate controls on its borders — normally open to other countries in Europe's free-travel zone — for the period around a m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whethe...

PARIS (AP) — A survey across 40 countries around the world found most people see global warming as a serious problem, and most of them want their gove...

A poisonous substance linked to a massive algae bloom off the West Coast has prompted officials to halt recreational shellfishing from Washington to C...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Investors and regulators put more pressure on Volkswagen on Wednesday after the company said it had understated the carbon d...

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — A northern Illinois police officer whose fatal shooting triggered a large manhunt carefully staged his death to make it ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande hopes to use a state visit to China to boost difficult climate negotiations, a month before a U.N. con...

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — There's far more riding on the Americas' largest seawater desalination plant than the 50 million gallons of drinking water it ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — State officials for the first time are fining California water suppliers for failing to meet a mandated 25 percent reduction in w...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former first lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna Bush Hager are working on another children's book. HarperCollins Publishers told The A...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The operator of a closed radioactive waste dump that caught fire in southern Nevada had trouble over the years with leaky shipments a...

BONN, Germany (AP) — The trillion-dollar question of who should pay for global warming is coming to a head in talks on an international climate pact, ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Investigators are blaming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold...

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins — more than 1.5 million items in all — fill the shelv...

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal biologists flying a drone have taken thousands of rich images of endangered Puget Sound orcas showing the whales are in good co...

LONDON (AP) — Britain will be China's "partner of choice" in the West, Prime Minister David Cameron declared Wednesday, as China demonstrated its comm...

LONDON (AP) — The latest news on the second day of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Britain. All times local. 5:15 p.m. Police have dragg...

LONDON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to begin a four-day state visit to Britain on Monday as part of a push to increase trade ties betwee...