PORTLAND, Maine — For years, Mark Hager’s job as an observer aboard New England fishing boats made him a marked man, seen as a meddling cop on the…
Read more Could trawler cams help save world’s dwindling fish stocks?PORTLAND, Maine — For years, Mark Hager’s job as an observer aboard New England fishing boats made him a marked man, seen as a meddling cop on the…
Read more Could trawler cams help save world’s dwindling fish stocks?DETROIT — In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into isolated thickets to study Detroit’s most elusive residents —…
Read more Extinctions, shrinking habitat spur ‘rewilding’ in citiesASTORIA, Ore. — Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action to help sunflower sea stars, among the largest sea stars in the world, recover from catastrophic…
Read more Scientists call for action to help sunflower sea starsThe Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban drilling of new oil and gas wells and phase out existing ones over the next 20 years.…
Read more Los Angeles City Council votes to ban oil and gas drillingA cleanup is underway after about 1,100 gallons of toxic fire suppressant was spilled at the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility Tuesday, according to Hawaii Department of Health…
Read more Official: Toxic fire suppressant spill in Hawaii ‘egregious’MONTROSE, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s most active gas driller pleaded no contest Tuesday to criminal charges, capping a landmark environmental case against a company that prosecutors say polluted a…
Read more Gas driller pleads no contest to polluting town’s waterJACKSON, Miss. — The Justice Department made a rare intervention Tuesday to try to bring improvements in the beleaguered water system in Mississippi’s capital city, which nearly collapsed…
Read more Justice Department intervenes for struggling water systemSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government said Monday it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying Southern California lake…
Read more Drying California lake to get $250M in US drought fundingHOUSTON — More than 2 million people in the Houston area were under a boil order notice Monday after a power outage caused low pressure at a water…
Read more Water boil order issued for more than 2 million in HoustonDAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it…
Read more Climate, politics double threat as Tigris-Euphrates shrivelsMENTONE, Texas — A strong earthquake that struck a remote area of the West Texas desert caused damage in San Antonio, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, officials…
Read more West Texas earthquake causes damage hundreds of miles awayFLORISSANT, Mo. — Another round of testing found no harmful radioactive contamination at a Missouri elementary school, leaving school board members to wonder if there really is any…
Read more 3rd investigation finds no contamination at Missouri schoolJACKSON, Miss — Local officials in Mississippi’s capital city, where a late summer water crisis upended life for 150,00 people, have approved an emergency plan to increase staffing…
Read more Mississippi capital to hire emergency water plant workersSAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit filed Thursday by the state of California accuses 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm caused to the environment…
Read more California sues over ‘forever chemicals’ that taint waterFLORISSANT, Mo. — Testing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found no radioactive contamination at a Missouri school that was shut down last month amid fears that…
Read more Corps finds no radioactive contamination at Missouri schoolJACKSON, Miss — Mississippi officials on Friday approved the city of Jackson’s request for $35.6 million in federal funds to help fix its crumbling water infrastructure, following this…
Read more Mississippi capital to receive $35.6M in federal water fundsFORT MYERS, Fla. — Hurricane Ian not only ravaged southwest Florida on land but was destructive underwater as well. It destroyed man-made reefs and brought along red tide,…
Read more Ian ruins man-made reefs, brings algae bloom to FloridaALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Adam Thomas starts harvesting soybeans on his Illinois farm when the dew burns off in the morning. This year, dry weather accelerated the…
Read more Drought snarls Mississippi River transit in blow to farmersLAS VEGAS — The death of a Las Vegas-area teenager from a rare brain-eating amoeba that investigators think he was exposed to in warm waters at Lake Mead…
Read more Experts: Lake Mead brain-eating amoeba death among few in US
