environment and nature

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has set a new national ozone standard, tightening limits on the smog-forming pollution linked to asthma and...

FOREST ACRES, S.C. (AP) — The young police officer killed in a South Carolina mall shooting was a committed officer of the peace who loved working in ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Traditional power companies are getting into small-scale solar energy and competing for space on your rooftop. The emerging c...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell's dry hole in the Chukchi Sea may be disappointing to shareholders, but it's potentially devastating to Ala...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators on Friday restored ambitious rules to cut transportation fuel emissions 10 percent within 5 years, a d...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Latest developments at the United Nations summit to adopt an ambitious blueprint to eradicate extreme poverty and other global g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest developments from the state visit that President Barack Obama is hosting for Chinese President Xi Jinping. All times loca...

PARIS (AP) — The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbing — but now the French government is trying to help the...

BERLIN (AP) — The latest developments on the Volkswagen emissions scandal. All times local. ___ 6:40 p.m. Volkswagen AG has chosen the head of its Por...

NEW YORK (AP) — Latest developments in Pope Francis' visit to the United States. All times local: 12:20 p.m. Speaking at the site of the worst terrori...

MILAN (AP) — Milan designers looked to the sea and the forest for inspiration for warm weather looks being previewed during Milan Fashion Week. After ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Giant Sequoias growing in California's Sierra Nevada are among the largest and oldest living things on earth, but...

BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned Wednesday, days after admitting that the world's top-selling carmaker had rigged diesel emissi...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq, which is already facing a prolonged battled against the Islamic State group and mass protests against government corruption and i...

CAMERON, La. (AP) — Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate this tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Setting aside personality clashes for a night, the Republican Party's 2016 contest shifted to substance Friday as a slate of W...

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Some in the group of seven hikers were new to climbing and swimming through narrow canyons when fast-moving floodwater...

HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The latest on the deadly flash flooding to hit the Utah-Arizona border region (all times local): 10:31 a.m. Authorities have warn...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is dismissing complaints by Republican lawmakers that her agency downplayed the seri...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Heavy haze forced Malaysian authorities to shut schools Tuesday in three states and two key cities as aircraft prepared ...