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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce Monday that his department is temporarily barring the filing of new uranium mining claims on about 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, an Obama administration official said.
The Interior Department is temporarily blocking new hardrock mining tomorrow on 1 million acres surrounding the Grand Canyon....
The Interior Department announced Monday it is temporarily barring the filing of new mining claims, including for uranium, on nearly 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon.
The Bureau of Land Management has recognized four oil and gas companies for their efforts to cut down on air pollution in southwest Wyoming.
The tiny island nation of Tuvalu, already under threat from rising seas caused by global warming, vowed Sunday to do its part for climate change by fueling its economy entirely from renewable sources by 2020.
A proposed power plant in Southern California that would turn coal and waste petroleum into cleaner-burning gas has garnered ...
The National Association of Governors is the latest legislative group to support the American Institute of Architects' goal o...
The Census Bureau is breathing a sigh of relief after a problem-plagued project to go high-tech recently cleared a big hurdle.
Halliburton on Monday said its profit tumbled for a second straight quarter, primarily from a falloff in natural-gas production in North America, and the oilfield services giant offered little hope for an uptick in drilling before year's end.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday touted prospects for strengthening U.S.-India relations and prepared to sign at least one agreement designed to give U.S. companies more access to India's expanding markets.
A pollutant that can slowly trigger changes in the lives of plants and animals is increasingly being found in 16 National Park Service sites, mostly in the Western United States.
Queen Elizabeth II took to the River Thames in a steam launch Monday to watch red-suited boatmen carefully count all her swans.
Keep California Beautiful has jumped on the retro bandwagon for a clever public service advertising campaign intended to maintain the state’s beaches.
Five million more people voted in last year's historic US presidential election than did in 2004, with African-Americans and Hispanics making up the bulk of the increase, US census data showed Monday.
Calm overnight winds aided Canadian firefighters on Monday as they struggled to control forest fires that have displaced thousands of people in British Columbia.
Raging forest fires in western Canada have forced 10,000 people to evacuate their homes with thousands more poised to flee the flames that began consuming thousands of acres at the weekend, local officials said.
When the national scenic trails system was created four decades ago, the goal was to build a walking path across the United States.
For all the attention generated by last year's presidential race, census figures show the share of eligible voters who actually went to the polls in November declined from 2004.
Dust clouds generated by a huge dust storm in China's Taklimakan desert in 2007 made more than one full circle around the globe in just 13 days, a Japanese study using a NASA satellite has found.
When Michael Jackson bought his ranch in rural central California, he picked a name for it that suggested eternal youth and escape from reality.
Setting a new path for cooperation with India, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the two nations agreed on ways to expand U.S. defense and civilian nuclear sales, while acknowledging "different perspectives" on other issues such as climate change.
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