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NEEDLES -The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Needles Office is selling three types of America the Beautiful passes that allow enjoying government-owned land and national parks while saving money.
Indonesia plans to deport seven foreign Greenpeace activists involved in a protest against deforestation, seen as a contributor to global warming, the group said Thursday.
Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an activist said.
TRUCKEE, Calif. - More than 1,200 scenic acres in the Sierra Nevada mountains around Truckee, including a spectacular waterfall, have been purchased by the U.S. Forest Service. The property, described as valuable for recreation and wildlife, was obtained through four separate transactions totaling $3 million. The purchases were part of an ongoing Forest Service effort to acquire portions of 350 ...
Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.
An American man who spent four years hiding in a backpacker haven to evade charges of ecoterrorism was convicted of manufacturing drugs.
Australia welcomed on Saturday two giant pandas from China zookeepers said they hope will become the first breeding pair in the southern hemisphere.
Maya Moore scored 23 points to lead Connecticut to a 91-46 rout of Hofstra Friday night in the WBCA Classic, giving UConn coach Geno Auriemma his 700th career victory. Tina Charles added 17 points and eight rebounds for the Huskies (4-0), who have now won 43 in a row. Auriemma, who will coach the 2012 Olympic team, becomes the eighth active coach to reach 700 Division I wins, and the fastest to ...
All Times EST First Round Thursday, Nov. 12 At Stanford, Calif. BYU 2, UC Santa Barbara 0 Stanford 2, Northern Arizona 0 Friday, Nov. 13 At Winston-Salem, N.C. West Virginia 2, Loyola, Md. 0 Wake Forest 2, Kennesaw State 0 At Dayton Ohio Virginia Tech 2, Murray State 0 Dayton 1, Marquette 0, 2OT At Chestnut Hill, Mass. Boston College 1, Harvard 0 Connecticut 1, Boston U. 0, 2OT At Columbia, S.C ...
Today is Saturday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2009. There are 33 days left in the year.
A foot chase through the District's busy West End turned into a brief, watery standoff Friday after a fleeing suspect jumped into Rock Creek, police said.
Some scientists fear that public confidence in scientific conclusions on climate change has been damaged just as countries prepare to curb greenhouse gases.
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Ever isolated by the United States and its European allies, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is increasingly forging ties in Latin America, and not just with fervently anti-American leaders such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd played down speculation of a snap poll over controversial carbon laws on Saturday, but emphasised his commitment to their passage ahead of global climate talks.
In upstate New York, landowners’ conflict over whether to allow drilling for natural gas has set neighbor against neighbor, even spouse against spouse.
The leaders of Britain and France gave their backing Friday to a global fund that would provide billions of dollars to poor countries to help them reduce the output of greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
Hopes suddenly rose Friday that a new global climate pact was within reach after rich nations attending a Commonwealth summit here offered to pay poorer countries to help seal the deal.
Bison have returned to Mexico for the first time since the 1800s, with Mexican authorities releasing 23 donated U.S. animals in northern Chihuahua state.
World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was "within reach".
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head.
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