environment and nature

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe intends to seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and sh...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities used boats, personal watercraft, poles and their bare hands to remove protesters in kayaks and hanging from bridges ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Shell Oil icebreaker retreated Thursday after a showdown with environmental activists dangling from Portland, Oregon's tallest...

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — The Coast Guard hopes lab tests will determine the source of a mysterious miles-long oil slick floating about 1,000 yards off Ca...

PARIS (AP) — British singer Jane Birkin has asked Hermes to take her name off the crocodile-skin versions of the iconic Birkin handbag, after being co...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Coast Guard spokesman said Wednesday the search for two teen boaters who went missing off the coast of Florida is ongoi...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota dentist who went on a guided bow hunting trip for big game in Zimbabwe said that he had no idea the lion he kill...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and it...

SAWMILLS, N.C. (AP) — Forty-three years ago, Pamela Shook Kolbe's father went out one night for a date and never came home. Now, her family may finall...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Firefighters reinforced by additional manpower, equipment and an elite management team attempted to check an uncontained wildfire...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The latest developments at the Vatican's meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. All times local. ___ ...

DENVER (AP) — Microscopic bugs and mildew can destroy a marijuana operation faster than any police raid. And because the crop has been illegal for so ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One city banned Styrofoam. Another has the highest percentage of "clean" cars in Europe. Still another has cut greenhouse gas emis...

NEW YORK (AP) — Head over to Cody VandeZande's condo in Chicago and you won't find a room without sharks. He's the proud possessor of shark bookends, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it is investigating whether an agent's gun was used in the shooting death ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Wrapping up the Ecuador leg of his South American pilgrimage, Pope Francis was heading Wednesday to Bolivia, where church-state ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It took $817 million, two starts, more than six years and one worker's life to drill a so-called "Third Straw" to make sure glittery ...

HONOLULU (AP) — High above the bustling city of Honolulu, in a quiet, exclusive hillside neighborhood where some of the island's wealthiest residents ...

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Saving water doesn't always mean saving money in parched California. Millions of Californians expecting relief on their water...

BONN, Germany (AP) — The United States has succeeded in its bid to "Remember the Alamo," after the U.N. cultural body approved its status as a world h...