PORTLAND, Maine — For years, Mark Hager’s job as an observer aboard…
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Could trawler cams help save world’s dwindling fish stocks?
PORTLAND, Maine — For years, Mark Hager’s job as an observer aboard…
Extinctions, shrinking habitat spur ‘rewilding’ in cities
DETROIT — In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale…
Scientists call for action to help sunflower sea stars
ASTORIA, Ore. — Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action…
Los Angeles City Council votes to ban oil and gas drilling
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban drilling…
Official: Toxic fire suppressant spill in Hawaii ‘egregious’
A cleanup is underway after about 1,100 gallons of toxic fire suppressant…
Gas driller pleads no contest to polluting town’s water
MONTROSE, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s most active gas driller pleaded no contest Tuesday…
Justice Department intervenes for struggling water system
JACKSON, Miss. — The Justice Department made a rare intervention Tuesday to…
Drying California lake to get $250M in US drought funding
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government said Monday it will spend $250…
Water boil order issued for more than 2 million in Houston
HOUSTON — More than 2 million people in the Houston area were…
Climate, politics double threat as Tigris-Euphrates shrivels
DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will…
West Texas earthquake causes damage hundreds of miles away
MENTONE, Texas — A strong earthquake that struck a remote area of…
3rd investigation finds no contamination at Missouri school
FLORISSANT, Mo. — Another round of testing found no harmful radioactive contamination…
Mississippi capital to hire emergency water plant workers
JACKSON, Miss — Local officials in Mississippi’s capital city, where a late…
California sues over ‘forever chemicals’ that taint water
SAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit filed Thursday by the state of California…
Corps finds no radioactive contamination at Missouri school
FLORISSANT, Mo. — Testing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found…
Mississippi capital to receive $35.6M in federal water funds
JACKSON, Miss — Mississippi officials on Friday approved the city of Jackson’s…
Ian ruins man-made reefs, brings algae bloom to Florida
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Hurricane Ian not only ravaged southwest Florida on…
Drought snarls Mississippi River transit in blow to farmers
ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Adam Thomas starts harvesting soybeans on his…
Experts: Lake Mead brain-eating amoeba death among few in US
LAS VEGAS — The death of a Las Vegas-area teenager from a…