AVALON, Calif. (AP) — Birth control for bison?

That's what conservationists are giving a herd on Santa Catalina Island in an attempt to reduce the population. Females over the age...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Conservationists say Congolese schoolchildren will soon be able to take a closer look at baby mountain gorillas.

Virunga National Park spokeswoman Samantha...

New England was expected to see another dreary day, while the Pacific Northwest remains under wintry conditions on Friday.

A low pressure system was forecast to continue moving over...

BEIJING (AP) — Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly...

CAIRO (AP) — A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?

Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters have fully surrounded a 145-acre wildfire in Southern California.

Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Greg McKeown says the fire was...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service should allow helicopters to fight fires during darkness, a tactic that could have been used in the critical first hours of the summer's gigantic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — National forests can be used as a carbon "sink" with vast numbers of trees absorbing carbon dioxide to help slow global warming, the Forest Service chief said Wednesday,...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An environmental group is seeking to stop three logging projects on several thousand acres in northwest Montana, arguing that the timber sales would harm the area's...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A scientist testified that runoff from fields spread with poultry manure accounted for a major portion of phosphorus pollution in a sensitive northeastern Oklahoma...

BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama, with China's leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad interim accord at next month's climate...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — Cold weather and calm winds are helping firefighters in their battle against a wildfire in Southern California.

Orange County Fire Authority Capt....

MOIRA, N.Y. (AP) — A northern New York man is recovering after being attacked by a 10-point buck while he was loading firewood. Authorities said Gerald Dabiew, 56, was cut and bruised from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — A 245-acre wildfire in coastal mountains of Southern California was 75 percent contained Tuesday, Orange County authorities said. No homes were...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Seismologists say a earthquake struck off Canada's pacific coast province of British Columbia.

The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday the...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4 percent...

DENVER (AP) — Federal officials plan to spend $11.7 million for about 5,000 acres of private land in national monuments, forests and recreation areas in three Western states.

The...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Environmental groups are suing the federal Bureau of Land Management over its decision to allow a uranium mine to reopen north of the Grand Canyon.

Canadian...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Authorities have stopped trying to capture a wild turkey that calls Interchange 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike home. The bird has been causing havoc for toll...