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A major federal study on the future of the lower Mississippi River paused last year due to lack of funding could be back on track again after Congress appropriated another $5 million for the work, the ...

An offshore sea defence consisting of enormous Y-shaped structures will be used for the first time in Ireland to protect an area of north Dublin coastline where houses are in danger of falling into ...

The Trump administration plans to repeal the landmark 2009 legal finding that climate change poses a threat to the public this week, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday. “On Thursday, ...

Florida has banned "geoengineering," or weather modification, in response to conspiracy theories about "chemtrails." Scientists explain that the white streaks behind jets, called contrails, are ice ...

Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. The lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. By Karen Zraick Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of ...

Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO 2 and other greenhouse gases harm health In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration ...

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