Illinois environmental officials will dump a toxic chemical into a nearly 6-mile stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Wednesday to keep the voracious Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes while an electrical barrier is turned off......

"There's no reason at all" for pleading guilty, answered Lazarus Killigvuk, 26, after a judge asked Wednesday why the caribou hunter, accused of waste, was ready to cut a deal. "I just want it done and over with," Killigvuk said.Killigvuk is of one of 8

Australia has dealt a major blow to any international deal on climate change ahead of the Copenhagen summit by failing to introduce new laws to control pollution.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to auction land on one of America's poorest Indian reservations, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit which seeks to block the sale. The auction is set for 10 a.m. Thursday, and the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - She's no longer the chief executive of Alaska, but Sarah Palin should still be called "governor." And in English only, please. That was the message sent out by officials at the Mall of America this week, who told reporters planning to

"Buffalo Battle" Airs on Discovery's Planet Green December 5 WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. - On Saturday, December 5 at 10pm EST, Discovery Channel's Planet Green will air Buffalo Battle, a one-hour television documentary on the plight of America's only...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Nearly 2 million acres of water off Alaska's largest and busiest city were proposed Tuesday as critical habitat for beluga whales, raising concerns that the effort to save the whales will scuttle development.

Black-tailed prairie dogs were denied protection under the Endangered Species Act today. The ruling came after federal officials concluded the once-common ground squirrels show signs of rebounding after decades of poisonings, shootings, the plague,

At a speaking engagement at a Boys and Girls Club in Newark, N.J., NFL star and convicted dogfighter Michael Vick said he wished he could have a dog again "more than anything in the world."

Organic farmers won a 20-month legal battle with a recent ruling against the USDA for premature deregulation of Monsanto's genetically engineered sugar beets