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The U.S. Coast Guard is on its way to rescue a ship that got stuck in ice while trying to rescue another ship that got stuck in ice. Why so much ice? A rescued scientist explains.
A U.S. Navy ship that delivered aid to Japan after the big tsunami in 2011 sailed right into a plume of radioactive pollution. Now sick sailors are suing the nuclear plant owner.
The area's about the same size as Belgium.
The overuse of road salt this winter might eventually mess up freshwater ecosystems. Thanks again, polar vortex.
Torrential downpours and abnormal heat could kill nearly half of penguin chicks in a single year, say researchers.
We shouldn't be so eager to pin cancer on environmental causes that we misread statistics and leap to unsupported conclusions.
Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia -- having already extracted much of the region's natural wealth.
Under its Republican governor, cozy North Carolina regulators shielded the utility from environmental complaints.
Shell announced it won't attempt to drill for oil in the Arctic this year -- and that it's "considering its options" in the region.
