WASHINGTON (AP) — A solid majority of Americans recognize the need to help the environment, although there are some things — like buying a hybrid car or taking mass transit — that...

If you missed out on Washington's cash incentive program to trade in your old clunker, Uncle Sam still has a deal for you: The government will sell you rejects from its own fleet, even as it...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.

There isn't a farm within miles of...

BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful...

BEIJING (AP) — Hu says China, US agree to expand cooperation on climate change, energy and environment.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers will soon take up the thorny issue of whether to impose new taxes on wind energy development, a proposal that developers say could stunt the...

PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday announced plans for a Chinese-owned solar panel maker to build its U.S. headquarters and a manufacturing plant in the Phoenix area, propelling one...

TRONA, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-4.6 earthquake has shaken a remote area of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.

The 1:21 p.m. Monday tremor...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The federal government will attempt to set Florida's water pollution standards — the first time it'll try that for any state — under an agreement approved...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lowe's Cos. said Monday it is expecting consumers will spend cautiously this holiday season on trees and gifts like power tools but said it sees signs the housing...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — International Coal Group said Monday it has settled a lawsuit filed by two environmental groups challenging a federal water quality permit for an Appalachian...

COPENHAGEN (AP) — There's not enough time to strike a detailed and binding deal at next month's Copenhagen conference on climate change but nations say it...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Environmentalists on Monday said an international deal to reduce catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna didn't go far enough to protect the species from extinction.

The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of businessmen on Monday launched a new coalition to urge the federal government to make a major investment in electric transportation, pointing to...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An African took over as director of Greenpeace Monday, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful...

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL and the NFL Players Association are contributing $50,000 to help victims of the tsunami that struck American Samoa in September.

The league said Monday that...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — After drug giant Pfizer Inc. announced that it was opening a new research center here, city officials aggressively moved to acquire surrounding land for an...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fitch Ratings said Monday that regional mid-sized and small banks face much greater risk from the commercial real estate slump than bigger rivals.

The smaller banks...

KOKONOGI, Japan (AP) — A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net....

KOKONOGI, Japan (AP) — A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears...

SHANGHAI (AP) — President Barack Obama says there are very few global challenges that can be solved unless the U.S. and China cooperate.

Obama says climate change is one of the most...

NASHVILLE, Tenesí, EE.UU. (AP) — Chris Johnson corrió para 132 yardas, anotó dos touchdowns y agregó otras 100 yardas al atrapar nueve pases para ayudar el domingo a los Titans de...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week.

El Salvador's Civil...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The burning glow over North Dakota's oil patch is slowly dimming as companies work to capture and sell natural gas instead of flaring it.

Though the flares...

BEIJING (AP) — Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month — which would mark the symbolic culmination of...

SINGAPORE (AP) — Open trade and people-centered strategies are key for sustained, stable growth, President Barack Obama and Asia-Pacific leaders said Sunday, pledging to persist with...

BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois, EE.UU. (AP) — El Real Salt Lake avanzó el sábado a su primera final de la Copa MLS al vencer el sábado al Fire de Chicago 5-4 en la definición por penales luego...

SINGAPORE (AP) — World leaders agree that next month's much-anticipated international summit on climate change will be a preliminary step that will require subsequent efforts to...

KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) — Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to...

Mourners grieve at funerals for some of 13 soldiers killed in Fort Hood shooting massacre

KIEL, Wis. (AP) — The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.

Ignoring substantial parts of...

PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.

Immigration official...

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — A powerful storm born from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida began moving out to sea Friday after raking the East Coast for three...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history raged out of control because it jumped into inaccessible terrain, not because the U.S. Forest Service scaled back...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 74-year-old man said to be the oldest graffiti vandal ever captured in Los Angeles County was arrested Friday, authorities said. Deputies spotted the septuagenarian...