With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit. Then, when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 60 ...
Roy Derrick maneuvered his forklift with a pallet of neatly boxed expired produce and flowers and dropped it into an industrial compactor at Safeway’s cavernous return center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. As the compactor hummed, compressed food and floral scraps spilled through a chute ...
The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the “mountain devil,” is being added to the list of species threatened by climate change — a dubious distinction that puts the species in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals that could ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that he intends to resign, leaving the White House in exactly the same place it was four years ago: looking to fill the three most important environmental posts in the federal government. The Interior Department, the Environmental Protection ...
Des Moines Iowa AP, BLOOMBERG The federal government on Friday released its final crop report for 2012, detailing heavy losses caused by the worst drought the U.S. has experienced since the 1950s. Much of the attention focused on corn, which is widely used as ...
Last year marked the warmest year on record for the United States and was also the second most extreme ever, the U.S. government agency charged with monitoring weather events said Tuesday. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed ...
On one stretch of the Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard has been reduced to playing traffic cop. For eight hours a day, shipping is allowed to move one way along the 290 km of river between St. Louis, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois, depending ...
The owner of the drilling rig that exploded and led to the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will pay $1.4 billion in criminal and civil penalties, the Justice Department said Thursday. Transocean agreed to accept some responsibility for its role ...
