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First LookAre regulators doing enough to prevent another mine waste disaster?New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is seeking mine waste controls in the wake of the spill into the Animas River last year.
Scientists urge cooperation to save North America's migratory birdsCould future springtimes fall silent? Biologists say a third of the North American migratory birds are facing extinction at an unnaturally fast pace.
First LookWhy discoveries made by ice-penetrating lasers in the Totten Glacier worry scientistsFlying above the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, researchers say the Totten Glacier has been unstable before, and it may be again soon.
First LookFoggy the whale entangled yet again. Can this danger be prevented?A rescue team responded to reports of a humpback whale off the coast of Gloucester, Mass. on Wednesday, one of the thousands of whales entangled by fishing gear each year.
How Pakistan is leading efforts to stop deforestationPakistan has a discouraging track record when it comes to deforestation, but a province in the country's northern region is looking to change that as more locals see the value in conversation.
How Portugal went 107 hours on only renewable energyProving its leadership in renewable energy, Portugal powered all of its electricity with only renewable energy for four days.
Why the Paris Agreement won't succeed without agricultural innovationsIf the world is to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector will need to be addressed – and in a whole new way.
Clean Power Plan challenge set for September. Is SCOTUS far off?The full appeals court in Washington will hear arguments in the legal fight over President Barack Obama's plan to curtail greenhouse gas emissions this fall, potentially accelerating the case's path to the Supreme Court.
First LookIconic sea turtle nesting season off to a great startLast year's nest totals in Georgia and the Carolinas were record-setting for loggerhead sea turtles. So far, this year's numbers are looking good as well.
First LookThe world's smallest porpoise is in trouble. Can the 'little cow' be saved?Conservationists are urging the Mexican and Chinese governments to take action to save the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise.
Don't pet the Yellowstone bison, or put them in your carVisitors loaded the newborn bison calf into their SUV and brought it to a park facility. They were concern that it was too cold. Park rangers euthanized the calf after repeated attempts to reunite it with the herd.
Record-breaking April temperatures mark a 'climate emergency'El Niño combined with already rising global temperatures to make April the latest of several 'hottest ever' months, according to NASA data. 2016 will likely be the hottest year on record.
Trump turns to global warming denier for energy policy guidanceDonald Trump asked for help is US Representative Kevin Cramer (R) of North Dakota, one of the country's most ardent oil and gas drilling advocates and climate change skeptics.
Hydropower’s next act: becoming a less-controversial renewableControversy over dams abounds. But hydropower experts see the potential for hydro to carve out an energy niche where power production and habitat protection coexist.
EPA to oil and gas industry: Watch your methane emissionsThe Obama administration announced Thursday the first steps ever taken to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas.
First LookWhy are hundreds of tiny red crabs swarming California beaches?Two beaches in Southern California have been inundated by hundreds of bright red and orange crabs, in what experts believe is an event linked to El Niño.
America is building a wall – to keep out Asian carpA wall – a 2-mile-long earthen 'berm' – is the latest in an ongoing battle to keep invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.
Native American tribes pledge to save the monarch butterflyLeaders of seven Oklahoma tribes announced a plan to plant specific vegetation for the butterflies, whose numbers have plummeted in recent years.
First LookThe haves and have nots of clean air: Air pollution worst in developing worldImproving air quality for low-income nations would not only improve public health for millions of people, but would also help alleviate global greenhouse gas woes.
Why Nike is making most shoes from manufacturing wasteSeventy-one percent of Nike's footwear now contains materials made from ground-up shoes and scraps, the company said in a report on Wednesday.
